{"id":505,"date":"2017-10-10T10:50:59","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T14:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/?p=505"},"modified":"2017-10-10T10:50:59","modified_gmt":"2017-10-10T14:50:59","slug":"a-sweet-start-for-greensburg-craft-beer-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/westmoreland\/a-sweet-start-for-greensburg-craft-beer-week\/","title":{"rendered":"A sweet start for Greensburg Craft Beer Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/10\/me-gbgcbw-tapped.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-507\" src=\"http:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/10\/me-gbgcbw-tapped-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/10\/me-gbgcbw-tapped-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/10\/me-gbgcbw-tapped-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/10\/me-gbgcbw-tapped-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/10\/me-gbgcbw-tapped.jpg 1350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The first-ever <a href=\"https:\/\/greensburgcraftbeerweek.com\/\">Greensburg Craft Beer Week<\/a> got off to a good start on Monday &#8230; especially for those of us with a sweet tooth.<\/p>\n<p>I started in downtown Greensburg, where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Hugos-Taproom-1633164186964665\/\">Hugo&#8217;s Taproom<\/a> &#8212; a cozy neighborhood pub with good-looking food and a great-looking tap list &#8212; hosted a beer and chocolate pairing. The beer was provided by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quinnbrewing.com\/\">Quinn Brewing<\/a>, which brought along four rich, malt forward selections to compliment the chocolates. And the chocolates gave us a preview of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcfeelysgourmetchocolate.com\/\">McFeely&#8217;s Gourmet Chocolate<\/a>, a shop that&#8217;s set to open a Greensburg location soon.<\/p>\n<div style=\"display: block; position: relative; max-width: 100%;margin-bottom:20px;\">\r\n<div style=\"padding-top: 56.25%;\">\r\n<video data-video-id=\"5604106098001\"\r\ndata-account=\"1105443290001\" \r\ndata-player=\"N1VVkFril\" \r\ndata-embed=\"default\" \r\ndata-application-id \r\nclass=\"video-js\" \r\ncontrols \r\nstyle=\"width: 100%; height: 100%; position: absolute; top: 0px; bottom: 0px; right: 0px; left: 0px;\"><\/video>\r\n<script src=\"\/\/players.brightcove.net\/1105443290001\/N1VVkFril_default\/index.min.js\"><\/script><\/div><\/div>\n<p>The pairings all worked well; my favorite was definitely Braddock&#8217;s Golden Ale &#8212; a soft, approachable beer that Alan Quinn said was the brewery&#8217;s &#8220;regular beer&#8221; &#8212; and a dark chocolate-jalapeno bark.<\/p>\n<p>From there, I stopped at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tappedoven.com\/\">Tapped Brick Oven and Pour House<\/a>, to get a little dinner and to get a taste of Foster Pumpkin Project, a pumpkin beer made by the folks at Tapped and Delmont&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yellowbridgebrewing.com\/\">Yellow Bridge Brewing<\/a>. I also followed up my delicious thin-crust pizza with a #gbgcbw dessert pairing: beers from Fat Head&#8217;s and desserts from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sweettartes.com\/\">Sweet Tarte&#8217;s Bakerie<\/a>; my choice was the Goggle Fogger hefeweizen and a slice of bananas Foster cheesecake.<\/p>\n<p>And then I waddled out to my car and drove home.<\/p>\n<p>The dessert pairing and the pumpkin collab will be available at Tapped all week, and there are plenty more events to entice a drive to Greensburg. <a href=\"https:\/\/greensburgcraftbeerweek.com\/event-directory\/\">Take a look at the schedule<\/a>, and then head east this week &#8230; it&#8217;s worth the trip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first-ever Greensburg Craft Beer Week got off to a good start on Monday &#8230; especially for those of us with a sweet tooth. I started in downtown Greensburg, where Hugo&#8217;s Taproom &#8212; a cozy neighborhood pub with good-looking food and a great-looking tap list &#8212; hosted a beer and chocolate pairing. 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