Lore Brewing Beer and BBQ? a serious Danville, KY foodie event

DANVILLE, KY – Lore Brewing Company and the folks at the Kentucky State BBQ Festival are teaming up to bring you some of the best beer in the Bluegrass to enjoy while experiencing world-class BBQ. Four selections will be available from Lore at the event, which takes place in Constitution Square on the first weekend in November. One thing you should know when attending a “foodie” type event is how to properly pair your food and drink.

When most people think of food pairings, they think of wine. What you might not know is that properly pairing beer is just as important. We’ve done the work for you, and written a guide on how to take your taste buds to BBQ heaven with a little help from Lore Brewing’s beer.

Toolbox Cream Ale – Since this is …..a lighter and slightly sweet beer, you don’t want to overpower the beer with really heavy flavors. This beer will go best with any meat that has a fruity glaze or is lightly smoked. This includes chicken, sausages and most pulled pork sandwiches that aren’t swimming in sauce. We experienced this pairing first hand at Danville’s Oktoberfest, where the pulled pork from the Lucky Dog BBQ Team and Toolbox Cream Ale complimented each other very well.

Freya’s Stone Amber Ale – This beer is right in the sweet spot for just about every type of BBQ. The hop flavor will play nicely with most sauces, and the caramel maltiness won’t be drowned out by more heavily smoked fare. Freya’s Stone is highly recommended for things like ribs, sauced sandwiches, and brisket. This is by far the most popular beer in Lore’s lineup, so make sure you pick some up before it runs out.

Derby Brown Ale – With the dark and roasty flavors in this beer, you will generally want to seek out food with heavier flavors. Anything with a sticky, molasses type glaze, and any type of beef pairs very well with this beer. Stay away from chicken while sipping this one, because the lighter taste will be completely overpowered by the beer. Food that is heavily smoked will also go well with Derby Brown.

Smoked Festive Ale – This beer from Lore was created exclusively for the festival. It is a smoky-looking light ale made with malted barley that has been smoked over cherrywood. The result is a hammy smoke flavor in the beer. Some people have referred to it as “bacon beer”. Enjoy this one with anything at the festival. Smoked beer goes well with smoked meat – but we probably didn’t have to tell you that. It is not a part of Lore’s regular production, so make sure that you try this beer that will only be available at the festival.

The above guidelines will give you the best possible flavor combinations. What really matters is that you enjoy the festival. Any of these beer options will be great as long as they are consumed responsibly. Enjoy your food and drink, and experience all that this event and the city of Danville has to offer. When you get back to wherever it is you call home, remember to seek out and support local breweries!

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new logo for our BBQ Catering services company here in Danville, Kentucky.

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Another great video on the Big Apple Block Party.  Thank you Jason Perlow!

We go behind the scenes at the 2011 Big Apple BBQ Block Party and visit the pits at Memphis Championship BBQ, Blue Smoke, Martin’s, Ubon’s, Pappy’s Smokehouse, Dinosaur BBQ, Ed Mitchell and Salt Lick — all while the weather conspires against us. We promise there’s plenty of Hi-Def food porn in this 32 minute video.

For photographic coverage of previous Big Apple BBQs, I’ve compiled four years of it, over 900 photos worth, in this single Flickr album.

Big Apple BBQ 2011 from Off The Broiler on Vimeo.

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I can’t tell you how many wonderful compliments we received on the food, people raved on and on about how good it was. We are so happy that we chose you to do the food for the wedding, and we were blown away by your setup and how hard you guys worked all day, we appreciate it all more than we can say. And the leftovers!! I never in my wildest dreams imagined there would be SO much food leftover, we have shared it with many people and they all have nothing but praises for how wonderful it is. Many, many thanks for making this day even more special to us, you and Cindy and truly a treasure and we are grateful and so appreciative of your excellent service and food quality.

I hope you are able to see these pictures, let me know if not and I will devise another way to get them to you.

Many thanks again to the King of BBQ!

Sidney Baker, Lancaster, KY

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We were fortunate enough to do the Haney Rehearsal AND Wedding reception at Talon.  Thank you to Rayna from AlwaysPlanned.com and her bride for believing in us to provide a different taste for each day.  It went off without a hitch – and all we got was compliments from the food!  They loved it!!!

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we had the pleasure of cooking for Reverend Jim Stewart’s son and very near future daughter in law’s Wedding Rehearsal dinner here in Danville at his Presbyterian Church.  75 people and most of the people I spoke with were from out of town – namely Washington, DC and Kansas City, MO.  The DC people want us to open a restaurant near them and the KC, MO people loved the Q!  I overheard someone say, is this BBQ as good as Kansas City’s BBQ and the reply was not surprisingly, “this is good, but KC is known for its BBQ – they are a BBQ Capitol of the world”.  Now, I didn’t expect them to say mine was better, but I was delighted to even be in the same sentence as KC BBQ.

We served Smoked Chicken, Country Style Ribs and the show stopper, Texas-style Brisket.  Bratwurst for the kiddos and sides were my Wicked Smoked Beans, Lexington Cole Slaw, Kosher pickles and Dinner Rolls.

The best thing we were able to use their fully decked out, commercial kitchen.  Wow, what a pleasure that was.  We had a blast and wish the newlyweds all the Joy, Health and Happiness the world can dish out.

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Everyone likes hot dogs, right?  But Bratwursts are in a class all their own. These Brats we put on the smoker are simply amazing food. My mouth is watering…..  want us to talk to you about catering your next event, church group, organization, fund raiser?  call me Brad Simmons 859-319-5000 I answer my cell phone all the time and will be glad to knock out the details with you.  Let’s get you some fundraiser going!  :-)

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total yummo – want to have your next party catered — so you can enjoy your company?  instead of cooking and working so hard you get done and say, “what just happened”?  We know – this is how we always felt our parties.  Call us – this is what we do – and we know Parties.  The Bluegrass was not known for its BBQ – until we came to town.  :-)  The best Bar B Que, slow cooked over seasoned hickory.

Ladies and Gentlemen, this is real food.

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Mayor Tom Bozarth contracted our BBQ Team to cater for the town’s annual picnic celebration.  I will tell you, Midway is the cutest, coolest, nicest decorated towns you’d ever want to see.  We can’t say enough good about Midway, it’s people, the council and Mayor Tom.

We expected 125-150 people – we served over 275 dinners before running completely out of food.  We had chicken, boneless ribs, Pastrami, Brisket, our Famous Wicked Beans and our fresh Lexington Cole Slaw.

The town of Midway could have hired a caterer from Nicholasville or Lexington or Versailles, but they chose little ‘ole us – and we truly appreciate that.

Tom had good karma points owed to him – the weather was perfect.  the following two days rained to beat the band.  The citizens of Midway had a picture perfect day.  It was a great experience for everyone.   Thank you all.

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