Craft Beer Competition and Sampling Event and Grilled Oysters in Today's Eater's Digest

Hungry for your early morning serving of food news, with no preservatives or additives? Craft Beer Tasting Tonight! Join beer brewers, beer judges and beer lovers at Taste of Tops tonight for the first round of judging for the Great Arizona Beer Festival Craft Beer Competition. More then 30 brewies...

By Shannon Armour

February 18, 2011

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Hungry for your early morning serving of food news, with no preservatives or additives?

Craft Beer Tasting Tonight!
Join beer brewers, beer judges and beer lovers at Taste of Tops tonight for the first round of judging for the Great Arizona Beer Festival Craft Beer Competition. More then 30 brewies will be competing for the top spot in three categories, Pale Ale, India Pale Ale (a.k.a IPA), and specialty. Judges will rank the beers on aroma, mouth-feel, appearance, flavor and overall impression. The finalist will move on to the second round of judging on February 25th at Sun Devil Liquors and the winners will be announced at the Great Arizona Beer Festival March 5th. Tickets for the competition are $10 per person and include 6 beer samples, a souvenir t-shirt, and a chance to meet the judges. Click here for more details.

Food Porn Oysters
Sadly we do not live next to the ocean, nor can we afford to eat caviar on our little blogger salary, but that isn't stopping us from drooling over the photos of these beautiful oysters grilled and topped with Chervil butter and caviar. We have no intentions of running out and buying 5 dozen oysters any time soon, but if we did, they would look like this (we hope!).

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