Spring’s taste of joy

Bache-Gabrielsen’s Friends West Telemark
Invite everyone who wants to taste, learn, experience new flavors and the joy of tasting wine, beer, cider, cognac and good food to a day in Vrådal at Straand Hotel. There will be good food, good drinks and good stories and talks about what we taste.

Who is coming?
Bache-Gabrielsen Norway. Wine tasting will be at Selected Wines’ exquisite wine range. Former Beer farmer/founder and brewmaster at Fjellbryggeriet, Åsmund Rinde will take us through a bit of beer history and tasting of beer.
No one knows for sure when beer began to be brewed in Norway, but Norwegians in the Middle Ages believed that it was Odin who had taught people how to brew beer. The first traces of beer drinking in the Nordic countries are from around the 1500s f.Kr. The story of Fjellbryggeriet and brewmaster Åsmund Rinde began on the farm Vehus, a few kilometers south of Åmotsdal city center. There, Åsmund Rinde and Margit Karlsen Rinde started the successful company Fjellbryggeriet in 1999. There was a lot to learn, but after years of varying results, Fjellbryggeriet came up with the good beer we know today. Listen to Aasmund talk about their journey and his knowledge of beer.

Program
Saturday
11:00 a.m.: Wine tasting, Remi Madsen will lead us through this.
12.30 p.m.: Lunch in the restaurant.
14.00: Beer history with tasting by Åsmund Rinde
17.00: Bache-Gabrielsen cognac, taste and learn about cognac from the undisputed market leader in Norway.
Bache-Gabrielsen is an innovative family business with strong roots from and to Norway. Jan Erik Hofsli, will lead the tasting of
Bache-Gabrielsen cognac. He will give us the history, describe the area,
teach us about the raw materials and the production process, all this that gives the
noble drink – cognac.
19.00: A “Lively” aperitif in the Piano Bar.
7.30 p.m.: Feast – Head chef Darius at Straand Hotel combines local ingredients with inspiration from his journey in different food traditions. We enjoy a good 3-course dinner in pleasant company.
21.00: Coffee and Cognac. Kaffe Avec is actually a Norwegian, and Nordic, expression
in France, the waiter looks like a question mark if you ask for
“café avec”, which is why we have called it Coffee and Cognac. There is something
solemn about an “avec” situation. We move into a different setting and
round off the meal. We move to another room, and enjoy
a good glass of an exquisite Cognac you most likely have not
tasted before. Jan Erik will tell the story behind this and how it
was portrayed.
Subject to changes in the program