MEAD MAKING WORKSHOP
According to Maguelonne Toissaint-Samat, the author of The History of Food, mead is the ancestor of all fermented drinks. The 4,000-year-old alcoholic beverage is created by fermenting honey with water and is known to have been used in ancient cultures throughout Europe, Africa and Asia. And unlike beer and liquor, mead arose from ingredients found in the wild instead of cultivated through agriculture.
Professional archaeologist Dr. Rebecca Schwendler was introduced to the beverage 10 years ago and has been mastering its preparation and discovering new variations ever since. She will be leading a mead-making workshop at Three Leaf Farm in Lafayette where participants will learn about the drink and will begin brewing their own one-gallon batch of mead.
The class runs from 2-4 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 4 and costs $40. Registration and more information are available at www. ThreeLeafFarm.com.
— Nadia Mishkin
SOUPER BOWLDER AIDS PROJECT FUNDRAISER
The Souper Bowlder annual AIDS project fundraiser is going to be a funky good time at the Boulder Distillery on Thursday, Oct. 9. Guests will get their fill of local creations — eating special soups donated by Snarfs out of handmade ceramic bowls made by local potters, while perusing Boulder Distillery’s locally brewed 303 Vodka and 303 Whiskey (available for purchase) and jamming out to alternative americana rock duo Crowboy.
You get to eat the soup and keep the bowl. Bonus.
Dinner, a cool handmade bowl and live music, all for $25 that goes toward Boulder County AIDS Project’s food banks? Not too shabby.
— Nadia Mishkin
TOP CHEF WINNER BRINGING RESTAURANT TO BOULDER
Top Chef winner Hosea Rosenberg has been killing it around Boulder with his multipronged enterprise: Blackbelly Farm and Blackbelly Catering, the latter which has been working out of The Bitter Bar in downtown Boulder for the past several months.
This month, Rosenberg will be picking up shop and opening up his long-anticipated new Boulder restaurant, Blackbelly Market.
To give the excited Boulder foodies a little taste of what’s to come, Rosenberg is bringing his food truck named “Darth Tater” to Boulder.
Darth Tater offers a simplified version of the breakfast menu that will be offered at Blackbelly: breakfast burritos, coffee and daily farm fresh specials using ingredients from Blackbelly Farm.
The truck will be posted up at the Blackbelly parking lot every morning at 7 a.m. until the restaurant opens. The restaurant site is located at 1606 Conestoga St., #3 in Boulder.
— Nadia Mishkin
MORE OKTOBERFEST
Missed last weekend’s big Oktoberfest shindig in Longmont, with its giant sausages and beer out the wazoo? Worry not, Beerizen. The good times will keep rolling all month long at Gravity Brewing in Louisville.
Gravity will be be pouring $4 German beers every Saturday in October, as well as dishing out German food from Worldwide Vittles.
What sort of German food you might ask?
How about Peppercorn Ale Braised Smoked Turkey Legs, House Made Brats with Orange Blossom Curry Mustard and Rotisserie Chicken with German Potato Salad for a start? Yum.
— Josh Gross
