Sweet Tweetin’ at Boundary Bay Brewery

Last night we had our very first Sweet Tweet at Boundary Bay Brewery!  This year, we’ve gotten into social media pretty deeply and one of our favorite sites is Twitter.  We decided to invite some of our Twitter fans to our beer garden for a tasting menu of our new summer desserts.  We asked them to help us pair each dessert with a beer and to post tweets about it while attending the event.  The tweeters were served the Larabee Cake (a chocolate mouse, meringue and blueberry confection), a Strawberry Shortcake in a honey-champagne glaze and a Cherry Porter Ice Cream cake.  They were each poured tasters of a selection of our beers and asked to taste and tweet and tell us what they liked best.  They even got to try a chocolate wort reduction sauce drizzled over figs as the grand finale!

Larabee Cake

After tallying the votes, here’s the Sweet Tweet results: the crew chose Dunkles Bock as the clear winner to accompany the Strawberry Shortcake (thought the Stout got a few votes too – especially when tasted with the shortcake biscuit!).  “Dunkles Bock brings out some nice complexity and cuts the sweetness.”  When it came to pairing beer with the Cherry Porter ice cream cake, the opinions were much more divided.  As one of our voters stated quite clearly: “With Dunkles = yum.  With Stout = yummier!”  One of our tasters thought the Stout was the undeniable obviously right  choice, while another observed that the “Dunkles Bock makes the cherries pop…”  And last, but not least, the Larabee cake was paired with everything from the lightest (our Lightner Ale) to the Oatmeal Stout.  “Stout works with the chocolate perfectly and cleanses the sweetness.” vs. “Ale works surprisingly well…Ale works best with the more strongly flavored desserts, contrary to my expectations.”

Overall, the Sweet Tweet was a great success!  We were blessed with a group of Twitter techies who were well versed in beer and food as well.  They served as an incredible think-tank and we are so thankful to all of them for being part of this event with us.  If you’d like to read more of the comments posted during the Sweet Tweet, go to search.twitter.com and type #bbst (boundary bay sweet tweet) in the search field to see all the results.  And, if you’re still longing for more Sweet Tweet action, you can check out all the photos from the event on our Facebook Photos Page.

our sweet tweeters

Boundary Bay Brewery’s Sweet Tweet

Twitter is a relatively new word in the world of small business, public relations and marketing.  Yet, Twitter continues to prove itself as a huge, powerful tool in strengthening brand identity and in creating a community around a business.  At Boundary Bay Brewery, we’ve leaped into social media and are enjoying finding our fans spread across the world (even when our beer doesn’t get distributed further than Idaho!)  Not only is it fun to be a local brewery, but to then also find that we have active supporters as far flung as Tokyo, Russia and Denmark makes for a very rewarding social media experience.  But, we wanted to do more with social media then just hear what people are saying about our brewery and our beer.  We want to get in touch with our fans and get them involved in our business.  That’s why we’re holding our very first Sweet Tweet next Tuesday afternoon in the Beer Garden.

Donica Burnett, of Bantam Cakes, is also our dessert chef and we’ve been very happy to unveil her new Summer Dessert Menu at Boundary Bay Brewery.  Her creations are so popular, her dessert menu actually sold completely out the first night we offered it!  But, since the menu is so new, we haven’t decided on recommended beer pairings for all the creations.  Now, Boundary Bay Brewery Twitter fans have a chance to be part of a unique opportunity…our very first Sweet Tweet! We want Twitterers to come in and sample our new desserts and help us decide which beers pair best with each of the tasty treats.  Twitterers will taste for free, but the deal is they have to tweet for their food (you know…like sing for your supper.)!  We want the Twitter universe to feel like they are tasting with us – sampling Donica’s amazing desserts and debating whether the Dry Irish Stout or the Pilsner set off the flavors of the Larabee Cake better. So, if you attend, plan on tweeting your opinions between tastings.

If you’d like to participate, head to our Twitter page to get all the details!

Boundary Bay Brewery Summer Desserts

Donica Burnett of Bantam Cakes is our dessert chef here at Boundary Bay Brewery and she’s just whipped up a new Summer Dessert Menu.  For those of you who haven’t yet heard, Boundary Bay is offering a rotating menu of desserts designed to showcase the flavors and bounty of each season.  There are desserts sure to please…no matter what your sweet tooth prefers.  For those who prefer a good old fashioned dessert we have Strawberry Shortcake or the Strawberries and Lemon Ice Cream Sundae.  Try the Key Lime Pie if you’re gluten free!  For the adventurous, we’ve got the Tao Float with ginger ice cream and peach cream soda and for the chocolate lovers, we’ve got Larabee Cake.  And, of course, the Cherry Porter Ice Cream Cake for the ultimate beer connoisseur!

Strawberries & Lemon Ice Cream Sundae – Creamy ice cream loaded with fresh strawberries, served over a lemon sugar cookie, sprinkled with candied lemon peel & fresh strawberry juice. $6

Strawberry Celebration Shortcake

Larabee Cake – Creamy chocolate mousse layered with melt-in-your-mouth meringue, trimmed with a chocolate shell & garnished with fresh blueberries in a lavender-lemon glaze. It’s gluten free too!$6

Strawberry-Celebration Shortcake Shortcake – topped with strawberries in a Honey-Champagne glaze & a dollop of Vanilla bean whip cream. $5

Lopez Island Key Lime Pie - Gluten Free!!

Lopez Island Key-Lime Pie – Key lime pie with a macadamia nut crust, served with grilled pineapple &  coconut syrup. You won’t believe it’s gluten Free! $6

Tao Float – East & West harmoniously combine when candied ginger ice cream takes a bath in our homemade Peach Cream Soda. Topped off with lemongrass whipped cream, this dessert will take the edge off those warm evenings. $6

Larabee Cake

Cherry Porter Ice Cream Cake – An airy chocolate cake soaked in a chocolate-kirsch sauce, layered with cherry-Porter ice cream, whipped cream & chocolate curls. $6