I simply wasn’t prepared for what I saw when Fred Colby, co-owner of Laughing Dog Brewery in Ponderay, pulled open the heavy door to his walk-in cooler. Instead of setting eyes on cases of craft beer, I caught the cold gaze of six very pink pig carcasses. “Pig beer!” I blurted out reflexively, in order to...
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Kevin Dinius cocked his head to one side, as if trying to slide all the brewery names into a neat row before he spoke. “We’ve got Wallace Brewing from Wallace, Idaho,” he began to a Lynyrd Skynyrd cover band accompaniment in the distances. “We’ve got Payette Brewing from Boise, we’ve got Sun Valley, Van...
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It’s a Wednesday afternoon, and I’m standing at the Boise Co-op cheese counter with four people whose jobs I covet. They’re sipping beer and sampling cheese, searching for the perfect marriage of flavors for the Front Door Pizza and Tap House’s ever popular First Thursday pairings of beer, cheese and chocolate. An enthusiastic Cera...
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The New York Times Sunday magazine came out yesterday with it’s 9th annual “Year in Ideas” issue. The Times calls it a collection of “noteworthy notions of 2009 — the twigs and sticks and shiny paper scraps of human ingenuity . . .” Several of those notions involve food and beverage. Though they aren’t...
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This time of year, brewers are brewing holiday ales. But those big, rich beers require lots of hops and barley, ingredients that are getting expensive and hard to find. That could change your next pint of holiday cheer.
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