International Beer Day(8th August) was celebrated in style at Best Brews, FPBS. Lots of beer cocktails and a master class with Chef Sanjay Mitra and Chef Michael Swamy on doling out amazing dishes out of your kitchen, using beer! A few bloggers and people from the media were invited to the event.
It all started with their star bartender Abhishek presenting us with a welcome drink - Badge of Honor. It was quite yummy, considering that it was beer infused with Murphy's, passion fruit and caramel, with some vanilla foam, served in a shot glass. It was quite a bold attempt of adding vanilla and caramel flavors to a beer shot and it did work wonders!
We were later presented with some more interesting beer cocktails -some infused with fresh fruits, ginger, star anise and other spices. I'm not quite a beer person, so trying out these quirky cocktails shots worked for me, But I doubt if serious beer lovers would go for any these beer cocktails. :) Nevertheless, it's a good attempt by Best Brews to showcase their innovative side when it comes to serving beer and it's variations. My pick out of the ones we tried is The Bud Twist - Budweiser infused with some fresh orange, thyme and cinnamon. I loved the hint of orange and cinnamon in the drink. It was quite refreshing, to say the least.
The master class was started by Chef Sanjay Mitra cooking a dish called Drunken Beer Butt Chicken. The end product itself looked gorgeous. It had whole chicken, except the neck, marinated in some special seasoning mix. A entire beer can is used for marination and the empty can is shoved into the chicken, bottom up, before grilling it away to perfection. Vola! Drunken Beer Butt Chicken is ready to savoured with
some sauce.
Chef Michael Swamy illustrated another exquisite dish - Ale Cooked Lamb. Marinated lamb chops cooked and served with a colourful couscous of coloured peppers. The marination mix was quite an intersting mix of ale, garlic, grapes, pomegranate juice and some fresh herbs.
We also had some popular dishes from The Eatery - Ajwain Paneer Tikka, Chicken Kolhapuri, naan and some pasta. I savoured the paneer tikka in particular.
All in all it was a fun evening with lot's of conversations over good food and beer! Cheers!
(PuneFoodiez were invited for the event)
We were later presented with some more interesting beer cocktails -some infused with fresh fruits, ginger, star anise and other spices. I'm not quite a beer person, so trying out these quirky cocktails shots worked for me, But I doubt if serious beer lovers would go for any these beer cocktails. :) Nevertheless, it's a good attempt by Best Brews to showcase their innovative side when it comes to serving beer and it's variations. My pick out of the ones we tried is The Bud Twist - Budweiser infused with some fresh orange, thyme and cinnamon. I loved the hint of orange and cinnamon in the drink. It was quite refreshing, to say the least.
The master class was started by Chef Sanjay Mitra cooking a dish called Drunken Beer Butt Chicken. The end product itself looked gorgeous. It had whole chicken, except the neck, marinated in some special seasoning mix. A entire beer can is used for marination and the empty can is shoved into the chicken, bottom up, before grilling it away to perfection. Vola! Drunken Beer Butt Chicken is ready to savoured withsome sauce.
Chef Michael Swamy illustrated another exquisite dish - Ale Cooked Lamb. Marinated lamb chops cooked and served with a colourful couscous of coloured peppers. The marination mix was quite an intersting mix of ale, garlic, grapes, pomegranate juice and some fresh herbs.
We also had some popular dishes from The Eatery - Ajwain Paneer Tikka, Chicken Kolhapuri, naan and some pasta. I savoured the paneer tikka in particular.
All in all it was a fun evening with lot's of conversations over good food and beer! Cheers!
(PuneFoodiez were invited for the event)
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