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Meet Your Local Cheesemaker at Fair Food Farmstand

POSTED: Wednesday, May 19, 2010, 4:45 PM

Filed Under: Brew Revue | Dealage

Amazing Acres

Debbie and Fred Mikulak of Amazing Acres

Fair Food Farmstand in the Reading Terminal Market (12th & Arch streets) wants to introduce you to someone — namely, your hardworking local cheesemaker. So they are hosting a regular Friday series, from 4 to 6 p.m., pairing local brews with local fromage; the next one features Philadelphia Brewing Co. brewer Dean Browne matching his fermentables with goat cheeses from Chester County's Amazing Acres farm on May 28. Amazing Acres cheesemakers Debbie and Fred Mikulak run a sustainable, farmstead goat cheese operation using nothing but their own pastured goat's milk, doing all the cheesemaking on premises. They will be sampling three of their offerings, paired with Browne's fine suds:

Banon, a brandy-laced grape leaf-wrapped disk of goat
Sea Smoke, a Maine-inspired, ash-rubbed bloomy rind cheese
Fromagina, a creme-fraiche like goatie with a thick texture and fresh bite

Check out the plan for the June 25 Meet Your Local Cheesemaker event after the jump. June 25: Cheesemakers from Keswick Creamery partner with TrÃ¶egs Brewing to rub the dregs of their beers Tommenator and Mad Elf on raw cows milk Tommes. In addition, a lovely lineup of other cheeses will be available to sample with a number of complementary local brews courtesy of the Foodery. Rumor has it a baby brown cow may be in attendance.

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