Welcome to the official website for BitterSweet:Beer+Chocolate
The event took place on Thursday, November 10th at Seattle’s Fremont Brewing Company. It was a dazzling evening, featuring amazing beer + chocolate pairings as well as some amazing beers brewed with chocolate.
For photos and more, see the Washington Beer Blog’s coverage of the event.
Seattle’s premier beer+chocolate event
Eight local craft breweries, 16 beers to taste.
Eight chocolate beers (made exclusively for this event).
Eight beer and chocolate pairings.
Live Gypsy jazz band.
The event was a benefit for FamilyWorks, a Family Resource Center and Food Bank.
This event brought world class chocolate and craft beer together for a night of decadence. Eight of the Seattle area’s best, most creative breweries teamed up with Theo Chocolate to create magic.
Delicious Pairings: Theo Chocolate’s expert confectioners brought chocolates selected to pair with beers from our participating breweries.
Chocolate Beers: Our participating breweries brewed specials beers for this event using products from Theo Chocolate. This included beers made with chocolate in its various forms as well as beers brewed using byproducts from the chocolate manufacturing process. Not only uncommon beers, but never-before-brewed beers. Our brewers made history.
Participating breweries include:
- Airways Brewing (Kent)
- Big Time Brewery (U.District)
- Black Raven Brewing (Redmond)
- Elysian Brewing (Capitol Hill, SODO, Wallingford)
- Fremont Brewing (Fremont)
- Georgetown Brewing (Georgetown)
- Naked City Brewing (Greenwood)
- Two Beers Brewing (SODO)
Entertainment by Swing Soiree
BitterSweet:Beer+Chocolate was a fundraiser for FamilyWorks produced by Kendall Jones and Kim Sharpe Jones of the Washington Beer Blog.
Many thanks to our event partner, Fremont Brewing Company, for providing the space for this event; and to Theo Chocolate, our generous confectionery partner who sparked the idea for this event.
