Okay, we know there will be alot of pork to eat, but what will there be to wash it down? Of course, there will be plenty of
pop, iced tea, lemonade, and water; but from the brewery, expect the following beverages to be available for your enjoyment:
Helles: If you step into a beautiful beer garden in Munich Germany and order a beer, they would serve you a Helles Bier.
A Helles is one of life's great gastronomic pleasures. It relies on its incredible subtlety to dazzle the senses. Because
it is straw-blond and sparkling-light, it is pleasing to the eye. Because it is a full-bodied brew, it is satisfying on the
palate. It has almost no hop aroma or up-front bitterness, but it is mildly malt-accented. In the finish, it is crisp
and dry; it is deceptively drinkable with a lingering note of hops. When you drink a Helles in Bavaria, people commonly eat
a Schweinshaxen, or roast pork knuckle. We don't stop at just the pork knuckle--we roast the whole pig!
Prosit!
American Wheat Beer: Ahh, the quintessential summer beer. American wheat beer is a relatively new beer style,
invented by specialty brewers in the United States only about 25 years ago. In general, most American wheat beers
are intended to be light-bodied thirst quenchers; they feature large proportions of malted wheat in the grain bill and are naturally
cloudy in appearance, which results in a unique, refreshing flavor of grains and wheat malt.
Sangria: The Spanish culture is no stranger to the Hawg Roast�called �Lech�n Asado�. What better non-malt beverage to
accompany roast pork than some fresh-made sangria. The Romans conquered Spain around 200 B.C. They brought grape vines
and planted many vineyards. The local citizens, in their quest for refreshment and alcoholic enjoyment, created fruit punches
from the red wines they were now enjoying. They called these drinks sangria. Fast forward thousands of years and history
was made in the United States when the sangria was brought to the 1964 World�s Fair in New York City. Now this refreshing summer
drink is enjoyed around the world, and we make it for you to enjoy at the Hawg Roast! Take a mixture of red wine, four juices,
and three liquors, and you have a beverage exploding with flavors. �Salud y amor y tiempo para disfrutarlo�!1
1 Translation: �Health
and love and time to enjoy it�.
The Lemon Conspiracy
This is one of those subjects that there's absolutely no gray area. The lines have been drawn and the sides are
clearly against each other in the clouded world of wheat beers. It's all about lemon, or no lemon. Some beer drinkers
insist on a lemon in their wheat beer. Other beer drinkers consider a lemon wedge to be sacrilege. They lust after that
unique grain and yeast flavor that would otherwise be destroyed by a sharp wedge of lemon. We are not telling you to take sides,
but don't cry when your beer has no head . . . you can blame it on the lemon wedge and its acidity.
