101 Cheeses in a Single Night

Steve Jones of Cheese Bar and Adam Berger of 10-01 Restaurant want to kill you with cheese. Not just one cheese, though. No. 101 cheeses. In one night.

Ruminate on the last big cheese plate you put together. Like a REALLY big plate. You used what? Like six cheeses because you wanted to splurge. And you probably thought to yourself, “this is going to be the greatest cheese plate ever.”

Yeah, this is 101 cheeses. One hundred and one cheeses. There’s “expanding your cheese horizons,” as Amanda just suggested I include in this article, and then there’s drinking from a firehose of cheese knowledge.

No seriously, is the guy from Man v. Food coming back to Portland? The Great Balls of Fire at Salvador Molly’s and the Mancakes at Stepping Stone Cafe weren’t enough?

Oh My God, Sign Me Up Already!
The event will be this upcoming Monday, June 21, at Ten 01 Restaurant, which is at 1001 NW Couch Street in the Pearl.

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Your $39 ticket gets you a spread of wine, beer and other beverages. And for $59, you get a VIP ticket and can get in an hour early (from 5-6).

We will definitely see you there.

Hopworks “Rise Up Red” Now in Bottles

The nice folks at Hopworks Urban Brewery invited our entire blogging team to their newest bottle release: Rise Up Red. So we both went — I took the video camera, thus causing Amanda to roll her eyes as I asked her to do silly things for b-roll: walk through doors, chat with owner and head brewer Christian Ettinger, sip her beer, etc. Did I use any of those things? No. No, I did not.

But enough about the silly technical stuff: The Rise Up Red is a hoppy little red, very sessionable. It’s an incredible example of a northwest ale, fully of caramel notes. But don’t take my word for it; watch the video below.

This kind of flavorful Northwest ale pairs with nearly anything — I’d look for a fresh, grassy chevre for a warm summer afternoon. Or maybe even serve it alongside my decadent new favorite, burrata, for those typically cool evenings we get up here in Oregon. I think it’s hoppy enough to fight off a blue, and has barely enough sweetness to work well with something salty.

And wow, just imagining the possibilities reminds me: I shouldn’t write these reviews when I’m hungry.