I attended a great little gathering at Stanley this week. The following is the facebook page.
https://www.facebook.com/events/193739300825896/?ref=3&ref_newsfeed_story_type=regular
Basically, it was a joint project between Stanley's and Cedar Creek Brewery that was celebrating the release of Cedar Creek's recent Great American Beer Festival Gold medal winner Belgian Dubbel. I went ahead and ordered the Stanley's two meat plate with brisket and sausage as my meats. Again, Stanley's is absolutely nailing the brisket and their locally sourced sausage is always outstanding (the guys at County Meat Market tell me that they make the sausage for Stanley's and I have purchase a couple of large orders for parties that I have thrown).
Belgian ales are currently my favorite style of beer and I have been trying the various iterations of late. The Cedar Creek Belgian double was a very good beer. It was a beautiful brown to dark amber color and had a great full body with plenty of complex malt character and a nicely balanced hoppiness (sp?). They also had Cedar Creek's Pale Ale on tap, which I also enjoyed, although I am not a big pale ale/IPA guy. The beer wasn't overly bitter and the floral aroma of the hops was quite pleasing.
The Cedar Creek Brewery is located just off of Cedar Creek reservoir in Seven Points. They offer tours on Saturday and I will definitely go to take a tour and try out their other styles of beers. Also of note, their head brewer Damon was there for the evening and I got to spend a decent amount of time talking to him and his wife. He is a down to earth, great guy and with the winning of the Gold Medal at the GABF, their future is bright indeed. If you see Cedar Creek in the store or on the tap, give it a try, they won't disappoint.
