Home brewers, Atlanta-based Taco
Mac and Woodstock’s own Reformation
Brewery have your talents in mind, partnering to produce the
fifth annual Southern
Home Brewer’s Challenge,
an exciting pro-am competition where one winning home brew recipe will be
produced by a commercial brewery and sold at Taco Mac restaurants across the
Southeast. Home brewers can turn in beer submissions at various Georgia Taco Mac
restaurants during June and July according to the date/location schedule found here. First drop off is at Taco Mac Woodstock on Tuesday, June 6. The
Southern Home Brewer’s Challenge panel of judges (Taco Mac and Reformation
reps) will judge submissions throughout the month of July and announce a winner
on July 22. Reformation will then fine tune the recipe to work in its brew
system for commercial production, aiming for a release date during
Reformation’s Beer of the Month slot in November. Read all of the rules
regarding submissions here. Brew-sers, step away from your browsers and hop to it. Looking forward
to tasting the winning brew in November!
Add Providence, Cadence, Declaration and Stark to your local-brew friend list after meeting these Reformation Brewery beers over a four-course dinner with pairings at The Southern Gentleman on Thursday, January 28. Beginning at 7 p.m., executive chef Matthew Ridgway teams the Old World-style beers from Woodstock, Georgia, with dishes like smoked trout rillettes, frisée with Scotch egg and bacon lardons, and braised beef cheeks with dumplings, shaved Brussels sprouts and apple salad. Dessert? Count on it. $55 per person.
Return to The Shops Buckhead Atlanta gastropub for a mix of distilled spirits and brews from the “Rogue Nation” of Rogue Ales & Spirits at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, February 3. Contrast Fresh Roast Ale and Marionberry Braggot (using Rogue Farms’ own Marionberries and Hopyard Honey) with Oregon Rye Whiskey and Hazelnut Spice Rum while dining on four courses. Listen up as Newport, Oregon, Rogue reps chat about the spirited journey from ground to grain to glass. $55 per person. Call for reservations: 404-939-9845. Prices exclude tax and gratuity.
