Join me at the "River to Richmond" dinner at Royal Saxon to celebrate Spring!

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"Venetian Victoria" at Fitzrovia

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Even more reason to visit our beautiful part of the world!

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Thanks to our friends on the Mornington Peninsula

Meet my Brewer, Rod @ Good Beer Week

Here is the menu

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As part of Good Beer Week, The Post Office Hotel is hosting a 6 course degustation of pub grub gone wild matched to our beers. For bookings ph 03 9386 5300 or email bookings@thepostofficehotel.com.au

Good food, good beer good music!

Collins Quarter are hosting a 4 course courtyard menu with our beers and live music as part of Good Beer Week.

For bookings ph 03 9650 8500 or email bookings@collinsquarter.com

Beers in the 'Burg 6 course degustation dinner

As part of Good Beer Week, The Post Office Hotel is hosting a 6 course degustation of pub grub gone wild matched to our beers. For bookings ph 03 9386 5300 or email bookings@thepostofficehotel.com.au

Just one of the events my beers will feature in!

Bar Ampere and Mildura Brewery inconjunction with Good Beer Week 2012 will be hosting an event on Wednesday May 16. Enjoy a 3 course tasting menu matched with 3 Mildura Brewery Beers.

For bookings ph 03 9 663 7557 or email  functions@barampere.com

Thanks for supporting the locals!

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Mildura Brewery were hosting a tasting at the Grand Opening of First Choice Mildura, along with other local wineries yesterday.

Thanks to the First Choice team for supporting our local producers.

Mildura Brewery tastings in December

Thursday 8 Dec

Vintage Cellars Sandringham 4.30pm - 7pm

Highgate Cellars Glenhuntly Rd Glenhuntly 4-7pm   

Friday 9 Dec   

Vintage Cellars Yarraville 4-7pm
Richie's Balnarring 3.30-6.30pm

Saturday 10 Dec 

Dan Murphy's Melbourne CBD 4-7pm
Richie's Bentleigh East 4-7pm

Thursday 15 Dec

1st Choice Werribee 4-7pm

Vintage Cellars Williamstown 3.30pm-6.30pm

Friday 16 Dec

Highgate Cellars Glenhuntly Rd Glenhuntly 3.30-6.30
Richie's Tower Hill 3.30pm - 6.30pm

Saturday 17 Dec  

Vintage Cellars Melbourne CBD 5-8pm  

Thursday 22 Dec

Dan Murphy's Melbourne CBD 5-8pm

Friday 23 Dec   

Neapean Hwy Cellars Mornington 3-7pm

Mildura Palimpsest. Here is the full program

Thank you

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Mildura Palimpsest Lunch with Stefano at Old Mildura Station Homestead Sunday 11th Sept 
Stefano's Cafe & Bakery -Dinner on Sat 10 Sept

My Brewery Dinner

This dish was prepared by my friend Jim McDougall for the Mildura Brewery Beer dinner.
It was a treat with the Desert Lager. Interestingly, wild peas grow all over Mildura.
Jim also used wood sorrel to garnish a barley and goat cheese risotto to go with my Pilsner.
Wild sorrel is also widely available around our district. It has a sharp edge that cuts through the goat cheese and complements the hops in the Pilsner.

Cheers. Stefano

Explore the wonderful world of Food & Craft Beer matching with my friend Jim McDougall

New video. Sunday Luncheon at Collins Quarter

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Are you looking to have a food and beer event? Check out the fun we had at Collins Quarter in Melbourne.

Beer and Food – a match made in heaven

Sunday 15th May saw a gathering of Melburnians eager to try a unique matching of beer and food at Collins Quarter prepared by renown chef, Stefano de Pieri, and Collins Quarter chef, Michael Nunn.
The cold, drizzly day was a perfect back drop for this afternoon of indulgence of the specially crafted degustation menu with beer matching from the range of Mildura Brewery beers, including the people’s choice from the Federation Square Microbrewing Showcase, Choc Hops.
The antipasti was a combination of subtly woven flavours arcoss four dishes combining smoked ocean trout and yabby, bacala fritto and beer battered  fritters with anchovy.  This was accompanied by Desert Ale.

Mildura Brewery’s head brewer, Rod Williams explained each of the beers, which were served in wine glasses, and encouraged the guests to cradle their hands around the glass to warm the beer and release more of the flavor.
Spaghetti done in the richness of tomato and mussels, seemingly within its own sauce and seasoned with basil and parsley, delighted the diners as they sipped Storm Ale, which has the richness of Cascade hops combining with sweet malt and bready flavours and orange mango citrus aromas.  The room was humming with sound of food and beer warming the soul.

Stefano moved throughout the crowd during the luncheon.  While talk of was the menu, the biggest surprise was about how the beer worked so well with the flavours of the ingredients.  Stefano said, “Craft beer with crafted food is a simple collaboration when you take the time to understand how the flavours of both can harmonise.  We are traditionally surrounded by wine as we eat and we have a basic understanding of what goes with a certain white and a certain red.

“Microbrewing has added different levels to the experience of drinking beer and that lends itself to food matching.  I’m here to show how it can be done, with as much style and sophistication as we have previously enjoyed with wine,” he said.  There was more to do and he headed back to the kitchen as the rattle of the tables continued and the chatter of newly educated beer buffs filled the room.
Nut, biscuit and toffee flavours from the next beer, Mallee Bull Ale, worked in well with the melt in your mouth Chianina beef shoulder served with wet polenta with literal pockets of distinctive gorgonzola cheese.  And not to let the opportunity pass, it was perfect dining weather to bring a juicy suckling pig to the table, with lashings of crackling, and served with baked fennel (which was a simple addition to the menu which provide a real highlight for people at my table.  We were fighting over it).  Against the warmth of this spit roasted delight we enjoyed the Stefano Pilsner; a classic European beer with classic European food. It was a no brainer.

More and more, we are seeing the comeback of beer to the dinner table.  With over 120 Australian microbreweries, it’s no wonder we can see the linkages between this much loved beverage and the range of ingredients and food styles available to us in Australia.  An example of this suitably of matching was best seen in the desserts presented; a tiramisu specially made with the Choc Hops beer and a light as a feather honey and yoghurt mousse, accompanied by, of course, a honey beer.

You’ll see more of Stefano and this combination of beer with elegant adaptation of a range of foods.  We encourage you to make contact with us, tell us about your beers and their tasting notes, and should you be interested in hosting an event, we would be more than willing to discuss the possibilities.

Links you may like to keep in mind
www.collinsquarter.com
www.mildurabrewery.com.au
www.stefano.com.au
www.beerbuddyapp.com.au

We had a great time at Collins Quarter.

Thanks to all the team for such a fantastic day.

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Where can you get Mildura Brewery Beers?

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For those of you who wanted to know where you can pick up my beers, here is a list of stockists in order of the suburb and State they are in.

Ever since Dan Murphy's stocked my beer everyone here at the Mildura Brewery has been flat out.

A huge thanks to The Mildura Brewery team. You are doing a great job

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Choc Hops Chocolate Stout Limited Edition Tasting notes

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Choc Hops Chocolate Stout Limited Edition Gift packs

Our limitied edition chocolate stout was very popular last night with people who joined me, at the Microbreweries Showcase at Fed Square in Melbourne. It will be available through Dan Murphy's soon but you can get it directly from my Cellar Door at 27 Deakin Avenue in Mildura and also at the Mildura Brewery Pub. It is a limited edition so don't miss out. It will also be available on tap at our brewery in Mildura close to Easter and some selected venues in Melbourne. I will let you know more details soon. Thanks to all that visited the Microbreweries Showcase, it was a truly magnificent event.