Beer and Tomato Ice Cream?

[chazwicke]

Here is a posting from DC beer. Check out the Menu - especially the desert.

Cafe Saint-Ex and Clipper City Brewery
present
A Tomato Harvest Beer Dinner

Five beers, including two casks, from Clipper City's Heavy Seas line
paired with
Five Tomato based dishes created by Executive Chef Barton Seaver

7pm Tuesday September 27
Tickets cost $45 and are limited.
Non-refundable tickets can be purchased at Cafe Saint-Ex
or can be purchased via phone at 202-265-7839
or email at (saint-ex@saint-ex.com)

1847 14th Street, NW, Washington, DC
(14th and T)
http://www.saint-ex.com

Menu
(All the tomatoes used are local organic)
Balto Marzhon
Puree of tomato soup garnished with woodgrilled onions

Small Craft Warning Uber Pils
Sliced tomatoes and portabellos drizzled with minted herb oil

Red Sky at Night Saison
Grilled fresh shrimp with endive and tomato compote

Peg Leg Imperial Stout (served from a firkin)
Grilled lamb finished with tomato leaf & hazelnut pesto; served on a bed of carmelized tomato risotto

Tomato Basil Ice Cream (Yes, that's right!)

Cask of Loose Cannon IPA (This is the DC release party for Clipper's new triple-hopped IPA.).

Other Loose Cannon release events:
Max's Tap House (Baltimore) Beer Social - firkin - Tuesday 27 Sept 6-8pm
Olney Ale House (Montgomery County) - firkin - Wednesday 28 Sept 6-8pm
Vermilion (Alexandria) - firkin- Thursday 29 Sept 6-8 pm

[fretlessman71]

I've had Beer ice cream, beer milkshakes, and tomato soup spice cake - so why not? :)

[boh52]

Did anyone attend this event? How was the Loose Cannon?

[hops99]

Not beer-related, but I had tabasco ice cream at a trade show a few years ago. It was delicious - sweet at first, but it left a slow burn in your throat after it went down.

[fretlessman71]

Oh MAN - what a great idea! I'll have to look for a recipe for it - we got LOTS of hot sauce around here. Turns out there are a lot more flavors that work well with ice cream that we never considered before.

Drinking an Aldaris Porteris right now - could be the sweetest beer I've ever had. Tastes like fermented Malta Goya - and to me, this is a good thing! :)

[chazwicke]

Originally posted by hops99
Not beer-related, but I had tabasco ice cream at a trade show a few years ago. It was delicious - sweet at first, but it left a slow burn in your throat after it went down.

That sounds interesting. Is it going to appear on the open market?

You get plenty of nice perks being in the business. ;)

Do distributors give you beer advertising for your store? Neons? lighted signs? stuff like that?

[fretlessman71]

Our Man Chuck, the swag hunter... :D

[chazwicke]

Breweriana baby! Breweriana!

[zoom6zoom]

The tomato leaf pesto would concern me; tomatos are a member of the nightshade family and the leaves contain a toxic alkaloid. (The NIH database says a human would have to eat large quantities to be affected, but everyone's different.)