Day Break 4-Grain Breakfast Beer
BREWERY: Martin House Brewing Co., Fort Worth
STYLE: Specialty grain beer is a wide-ranging style made with rye, oats, rice, sorghum, millet, corn, buckwheat or spelt.
THE PITCH: Labeled a breakfast beer, this delicious ale deserves a dinner date, too. Brewed with barley, wheat, oats and rye as well as honey and milk sugars, the beer has a faintly sweet, cereal aroma with a touch of floral hops. On the palate, a malty-sweet core of caramel, grain and biscuit notes hits first, followed by a welcome dose of herbal hops that lends balance and complexity. A relatively low alcohol content helps justify the breakfast beer billing, but it's an easy beer to drink any time of day.
FUN FACTS: A riff off a bowl of multigrain cereal, Day Break is one of the brewery's four flagship beers. Martin House regularly releases what it calls "micro-seasonal" beers every week or two. On Nov. 2, the brewery hosts a launch party from 6 to 8 p.m. for its latest release, Strawberry Delight. For more information, visit martinhousebrewing.com.
SERVE IT/PAIR IT: If you want to go the breakfast route, try it with chicken and waffles, biscuits and gravy, or sausage and eggs. You can't go wrong serving this with pork, fried chicken, chicken-fried steak, aged Gouda, or Manchego cheese either.
GET SOME: Sold in six-packs of 12-ounce cans for about $9.99; widely available at liquor stores and supermarkets that sell craft beers.
Tina Danze
