So CCB went head-to-head with some excellent wines in a chocolate pairing put on at the NoHo Bistro by the Tampa Independent Business Alliance and their Passport To Indies Event. Granted, everyone who knows anything about beer and wine knows beer crushes wine when it comes to cheese or chocolate pairings and indeed most food pairings. Still it was cool to be asked to participate in a taste test pairing locally produced chocolate from City Street Sweets in Hyde Park Village with 1 wine and 1 beer and letting the tasters decide which liquid made for the most sublime pairing.

As you can probably guess CCB did....pretty good. But, I'd like to take this time not to toot the CCB horn, but to let people know that City Street Sweets makes some damn fine chocolate. In fact they make a Chipotle Pepper chocolate that tastes remarkably similar to our Hunahpus Imperial Stout and I very much hope tp procure some of this chocolate for the tasting room when we are finally ready to release Hunahpus in bottles.

Anyway, I regretably chose not to attend the event as we have been so busy at the brewery that I hadn't been able to see my twins for two days. So I was feeling pretty low and missing my girls and I desperately had to have some quality kid time. But this is the email I received regarding the event:


Debbie isn't embellishing. The Chipotle Pepper Chocolate is freaking amazing. I can't wait to pair it with our Mayan Chocolate inspired Hunahpus Imperial Stout!