Come to the Table

Beer & Beef

What could possibly be better than drinking a good beer?  Cooking with a good beer!

Recently I made one of my few tried-and-true slow cooker recipes.  (I am always hoping to increase my Crock Pot repertoire!)  It's called Spicy Brisket and it makes a tender and flavorful roast with hardly any effort.

The beer I used this time is our seasonal favorite, Frederick Brewing Company's Wild Goose SnowGoose from Frederick, Maryland.  It's wonderful for drinking and cooking.  We hadn't been able to find SnowGoose for the past couple of years, so we were delighted to rediscover it in time for the holidays.

Wine Blogging Wednesday 16: four emus

Just look at the alert red eyes on those four emus.  Don't they make you want to grab a bottle of their wine from the shelf of your favorite beverage store?

I browsed some wine labels looking for a good one to share for Wine Blogging Wednesday 16. When I saw these emus, I was sold.  Their indigo blue label not only featured their four fuzzy heads, it also promised a 2003 cabernet sauvignon shiraz merlot from Western Australia.

The tag that came with the $8.99  bottle promised (with Australian spelling), "Aromas of red currant, and raspberry with hints of cinnamon, liquorice and vanilla.  Soft, ripe flavours of red currant spicy cherry." 

To our novice palates, Eric and I thought the wine started out tasting like berries with mostly a "sharp" feel but a little bit of sweetness, too.  It had texture and seemed almost rough (maybe the cabernet sauvingnon fighting for attention with the shiraz and merlot?).  Over the meal, it got "juicier" and a little more mellow.