When: November 29th, 2011, 7:00–10:00p.m.
Where: The Draft House | 206-208 Tower Bridge Road, City of London SE1 2UP
Price: £35
On 29th November 2011, The Draft House Tower Bridge and Wine Chap will launch Extreme Grape vs. Grain – a series of events pitting the wickedest wines against the bolshiest beers.
Battle commences with: “California Über Alles” Extreme Thanksgiving Grape vs. Grain.
About Grape vs Grain
Draft House founder Charlie McVeigh says: “It may be fashionable in polite circles to dismiss strong flavours and high ABVs. We shall have no truck with such Namby-Pamby-ism. Extreme Grape & Grain is all about pushing the envelope and seeing what sensory and psychological extremities can remain untouched by our selection of radical, garagiste winemakers and brewers. The turbo-hopped 8-12% beer and fruit and tannin loaded 14-15% wine shall be our bosom companions as the winter nights draw in, and we hope you will too.”
“Fire; the wheel; fermentation: Mankind’s greatest discoveries. The realisation that yeasts could be used for more exciting ends than making bread heralded the dawn of the Booze Age. But ever since then the battle lines were drawn up between champions of the grain; hearty, rugged lovers of hearth and field, versus the defenders of the grape; cultured, urbane aesthetes and intellectuals. The war continues to this day (like opera vs. jazz – only relevant to someone)” says Wine Chap’s Tom Harrow.
The Grape vs. Grain events will see hosts Charlie McVeigh, Founder of the Draft House pubs and Tom Harrow of WineChap girding their respective loins for a series of encounters to defend their chosen tipples.
Vitally, each session will also include poetry (haiku or limerick) and arm-wrestling competition with drinkable prizes.
click here to book your place.
The line up:
- 29th November 2011 – “California Über Alles” Extreme Thanksgiving Grape vs. Grain
- 24th January 2012 – “Love in a Cool Climate” Extreme English Grape vs. Grain
- 28th February 2012 – “Clash of the Titans” Extreme French Grape vs. Belgian Grain
- 27th March 2012 – “Don’t Mention the War” Extreme German Grape vs. Grain
