Sour Beer with Lauren Salazar!!!! New Belgium

In stock now at Rock Hill and Forsyth

New Belgium Lips of Faith Collab Brewery Vivant....$11.99 / 22oz
New Belgium Lips of Faith Imperial Coffee Chocolate Stout...$7.19 / 22oz


Taste these tonight along with Lips of Faith Lost Abbey Collaboration and whatever surprises that Lauren Salazar brings from the brewery!!

The Wine and Cheese Place is proud to present...

Meet Lauren Salazar

Sour Beer and Lips of Faith Tasting

Open House - please join us and tell your friends to welcome this special guest to St. Louis

TONIGHT-  Tuesday November 6, 2012 --- 5-7pm
The Wine and Cheese Place
7435 Forsyth Blvd, Clayton MO 63105
314.727.8788
The event will feature Lauren Salazar, New Belgium’s Wood Beer Cellar Manager and Blender and all around Sour Beer Rock Star, and will provide customers an opportunity to sample some of New Belgium’s highly regarded sour beers, La Folie and Tart Lychee.   In addition, we will also hope to have available more from our Lips of Faith series of small-batch artisanal beers.  


We will be tasting the two new releases plus more....
Lips of Faith Imperial Coffee Chocolate Stout
Lips of Faith Collab with Brewery Vivant Biere de Garde




From New Belgiums Blog...

Dear Brewery Vivant,

Your're the best, I mean it. I wanted to take a few minutes and write you a letter expressing my adulation. So, here it is... When we first met it was magical. New Belgium was starting the Michigan roll out process and there you were, in an awesome, old funeral home in Grand Rapids. Your beers we great right away. We stopped by to say hello, drink a little, and it turned out that everybody inside the old funeral home (turned brewery) was awesome too. With wonderful and like-minded individuals such as yourselves it didn't take very long for the idea of a collaboration to come to the front. 

First was the beer brewed at your place, in Grand Rapids: Escoffier. A bretta beer with French chef-er-y roots, and a beer dinner that was 12 courses long. 12 courses! The highlights that I read just barely did it justice. And the few cans you sent me left me craving more (can you send more?). The beer is all over Michigan now, and the Chicagoland area too, but really, it should be world-wide.

Then, we met Brian and Jacob (brewer, and head brewer, respectively). These guys came to Fort Collins to brew the other version of the collaboration. They were beyond friendly and extremely knowledgable in beer, it was a real treat to talk to them. The beer they made here, with our brewers, is not Escoffier, it's something else, but amazing too. This half of the collaboration is a biere de garde, of the farmhouse family (as with Escoffier). It has bergamot, orange peel, and uses your house biere de garde yeast (oh, so yummy). The collaboration's bottle is a 22oz-er. In homage to you, Brewery Vivant, Jodi put somes roosters on it, it's spectacular. To the right is a very dramatic picture of a mocked up bottle (the real bottle will be silk screened (just like the rest of our Lips of Faith)). 

I am very excited to taste this next half of our beer relationship, it promises to be a real gem. Oh, and Brewery Vivant, this beer will be available through our distribution network in about a month (or so). Maybe you can come back to Colorado and we can drink both sides of this beer collaboration together, while sitting around a fire, and maybe we can share our feelings and more beers. That would be nice.

Until we meet again Brewery Vivant, I miss you...

Yours, 

-Juicebox

More on  Lauren Salazar
"Lauren is the Sensory Specialist and a Quality team member at New Belgium Brewing Company, where she has been employed for over eleven years and sensory-focused for over ten. She developed the sensory program from a basic production check to its present program and is responsible for all facets from design to implementation to re-engineering. Other areas of interest and fun at the brewery include brewery-wide flavor training, new product development, small/esoteric beer production and wood barrel project blender. Lauren is a judge at the World Beer Cup and Great American Beer Festival, has presented and taught short courses for the CBC, WBC, AHA, ASBC, MBAA and many others.

Salazar received her BSW from the University of Georgia a lifetime ago and holds a Certificate from UC Davis for Applied Sensory Science and Consumer Testing." -- New Belgium