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Brew Moon Restaurant & Microbrewery will offer, from left, Moonlight, Great Pacific Pale Ale, Hawaii 5 Ale and Black Hole Lager, along with Fire Roasted Ribs, at the Friday Beerfest.
What's the best thing to eat with beer? Poke, perhaps, or ribs? 90 brews, tasty
food star at BeerfestStar-Bulletin staff
At Friday's Great Diamond Head Beerfest, you can work on compiling your favorite food-and-suds pairings. Four restaurants will join more than a dozen breweries at the event, offering beer-friendly foods, some of them actually made with beer.
The beerfest takes place 6 to 9:30 p.m. at the Waikiki Shell. Admission is $22 in advance; $28 at the door.
For the price of your ticket, you can taste more than 90 premium beers, ales, stouts and porters -- from the locally made Kona Brewing Co. and Aloha Brewery beers to micro-brews from Sierra Nevada and Boston Beers, to specialty beers from big guns such as Coors and Miller.
Food will cost extra, but remember, it's not good to drink on an empty stomach.
On the menu, at $4 to $9 per plate:
Ribs, sausage rolls and a soup made of beer, cheese and crab from Brew Moon Restaurant & Microbrewery (which is also pouring its beers); an Oktoberfest sampler, garlic fries and poke salad from Gordon Biersch Brewery Restaurant; ribs, crab wonton and blackened ahi from Pipeline Café and Sports Bar; salmon, a crab/artichoke appetizer and pear bread pudding (with bourbon custard sauce) from Ryan's Grill.
The dishes have been designed to pair with different beer styles, and if you're so inclined, you can go at this the way wine-tasters do, sipping, tasting and testing the palate -- although you don't have to spit.
Entertainment will be by the Ernie Provenchur Quartet and Dita and Ells.
Tickets are on sale at the Neal Blaisdell box office and Ticket Plus locations.
Charge by phone 526-4400 or online at ticketplushawaii.com For groups call 732-6900.
Another beery event
The Hilton Hawaiian Village celebrates Oktoberfest with German beers and foods, plus the oom-pah sounds of the Tyroleans, 6 to 11 p.m. tomorrow and Friday at the Tapa Bar. On the menu: bratwurst and potato salad for $10.50, or a plate of Smoked Kasseler Pork Loin or Braised Pork Shank Eisbein with sauerkraut and mashed potatoes for $13.50. Call 947-7888.
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