Sierra Nevada. A very nice drop!

The entire range of Sierra Nevada beers have been a fantastic find for me. Not one for the mass produced watery beers that are generally swilled, I prefer to swill something with a little more body and complexity. The Sierra Nevada range certainly delivers to this end.

A word of warning regarding the SN Torpedo. This is not for the faint hearted! Torpedo comes in at 7.2% alcohol, rocket fuel!

I love the complex hop flavours in this beer, it is quite creamy and somewhat top of palate with citrus tones and herbal accents. I tried it in a Reidel IPA glass after trying it in a standard pilsener glass first off, interestingly I found it seemed to mellow and become a little softer in this glass, but then maybe thats what a 7.2% alcohol content does to you!

Fantastic with a blue cheese!

Duck breast a la mandarin with beetroot couscous

After a dissapointing days' dining in the Southern Highlands we decided to call in to the "Hot Canary" butchery in Bowral. We ended up with a couple of duck breasts. The plan for dinner was hatched and once home, I perused our orchard, happily finding ripe mandarins in plentiful supply, I found some beetroot in the vege garden and also some broccolini and carrots. Here is the result.

I enjoyed a Sierra Nevada "Torpedo" extra IPA beer with this. The beer was certainly not a great match but is a fantastic drop and I shall review it seperately.

Princess enjoyed a Clover Hill Brut Rose which is a buttery strawberry front of palate experience able to be better matched for sure, but not bad as a quick quaff from the wine cabinet.