At 5 p.m. at Brick Store Pub in Decatur, you can get a first taste of the the 2015 Atlanta Food & Wine Festival beer. Dubbed Cuvee du Gamalle, the hoppy session sour was brewed at Max Lager's in Atlanta in a collaboration with Tampa's Cigar City .
Max Lager’s brewmaster John Roberts and Cigar City’s head brewer Wayne Wambles developed the recipe, which features an interesting blend of malts and some exciting, fruit-forward hops, including Azacca, Huell Melon and Lemon Drop. And both Roberts and Wambles will be on hand for the Brick Store tasting .
“I think the idea was to make a session beer that had as much flavor and complexity as we could possibly add,” Wambles said of creating Cuvee du Gamalle.
“We were also thinking about the audience at the festival,” Roberts added. “It was less about doing a sour beer than doing something a little more like a wine in terms of acidity. We were looking for tropical flavors along the lines of a sauvignon blanc."
EVENT PREVIEW
You can join John Roberts and Wayne Wambles at the Atlanta Food & Wine Festival for two class sessions: The Art Of Collaboration at 1:30 p.m. on May 29; Southern Sours at 1 p.m. on May 30, both of which will feature a Cuvee du Gamalle tasting.
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