If you don't have any dinner plans for Sunday then I suggest you pencil in Beer and Bacon Night at The SideCar Restaurant! Yep, Beer and Bacon Night features local beer pairings with the best bacon inspired food you have had! This is an ongoing event that happens every Sunday so if you can't get there this week there is always next week.
A few weeks ago, I was invited to try out this newly themed night. One look at the menu and I knew I couldn't pass up this opportunity. Since the invite included a guest, I called up a friend to share the experience with. It was a good thing I did, and I suggest you do the same thing as there is just too much for one person to try.
If this review encourages you to go to the Sidecar Restaurant and try their bacon and beer pairing offerings, please let them know you read about them here.
To view the appetizer and entree beer pairings click HERE.
A few weeks ago, I was invited to try out this newly themed night. One look at the menu and I knew I couldn't pass up this opportunity. Since the invite included a guest, I called up a friend to share the experience with. It was a good thing I did, and I suggest you do the same thing as there is just too much for one person to try.
If this review encourages you to go to the Sidecar Restaurant and try their bacon and beer pairing offerings, please let them know you read about them here.
To view the appetizer and entree beer pairings click HERE.
Beer and Bacon Dessert
Tasting tip: Try each part of the meal individually first, batter, waffle, sloppy joe, etc. Then take a sip of beer, make mental notes about the flavors you taste. Then try each part with sip of beer. Then start combining all the parts and sipping beer along the way.
No, your eyes are not deceiving you. That is a bacon and brown ale cheesecake, made with Ouroboros' Old Bar Brown Ale and bacon bits! The beer's assertive roastiness balances the sweet cheesecake filling and resonates with the crumb crust. The bacon adds a crunchy texture and wonderful subtle bacon flavor to each bite.
Pairing the cheesecake with the same beer that is used as an ingredient, is a great place to start as it will help you pull out the beer's flavor in the cheesecake. The cheesecake's sweetness also counteracts some of the pronounced roastiness in the beer smoothing off some of its rostier edges.
However, if you have any of the Ouroboros' Purple Iris leftover from the entree then try that, as well. This pairing is more about contrasting flavors than the brown ale pairing as it sets the citrus/resiny hop flavor up against the sweet cheesecake. The two meet up somewhere in the middle and the cheesecake moderates the aggressive hop flavor and bitterness while the hop flavor and bitterness prevents the cheesecake from becoming too sweet.
Pairing the cheesecake with the same beer that is used as an ingredient, is a great place to start as it will help you pull out the beer's flavor in the cheesecake. The cheesecake's sweetness also counteracts some of the pronounced roastiness in the beer smoothing off some of its rostier edges.
However, if you have any of the Ouroboros' Purple Iris leftover from the entree then try that, as well. This pairing is more about contrasting flavors than the brown ale pairing as it sets the citrus/resiny hop flavor up against the sweet cheesecake. The two meet up somewhere in the middle and the cheesecake moderates the aggressive hop flavor and bitterness while the hop flavor and bitterness prevents the cheesecake from becoming too sweet.
Chef Tim Kilcoyne
Meet Tim, the mastermind behind all the wonderful bacon and beer pairings at the Sidecar Restaurant in Ventura, CA. Tim is a graduate of the Le Cordon Bleu Western Culinary Institute in Portland and has worked throughout California in such places like Cafe Melisse and Louise's Trattoria in LA.
You can read more about Tim in the Sidecar Restaurant's website, but all you really need to know is this guy knows how to cook bacon!-)
You can read more about Tim in the Sidecar Restaurant's website, but all you really need to know is this guy knows how to cook bacon!-)
Bacon and Beer Pairing Menu
Please Note: These options and prices are subject to change at anytime without notification. It is always best to call ahead and make a reservation.
Disclaimer: This was a delicious comped meal, but I wouldn't be writing this glowing recap if it hadn't been.
Disclaimer: This was a delicious comped meal, but I wouldn't be writing this glowing recap if it hadn't been.
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