POPULAR BREWS:
Dann Bean says Stouts are always popular throughout the fall and winter months.
THE PERFECT PAIR:
Dann’s pairing picks? Fresh oysters and champagne or a prime steak with a Napa Valley cabernet sauvignon
of and they were both amazing so we added them to our selections.
we’ll recommend something they’ll absolutely love and that is one of our main goals, trust.
Q: How do you decide what to include in your wine flights? Q: Congratulations on your win for DB: Oscar selects the wine flights on the 2016 OC Hot List’s Best Wine Bar! a weekly basis. He must keep in mind How does it feel to take that win? a price point that our customers are DB: Amazing! Whether it’s true or not, comfortable with in addition to keeping the fact is that our customers, family the flights interesting. Usually and friends rallied around us “MANY we do a white and a red flight, and took time out of their day OF OUR but sometimes he’ll focus on a to vote and that means more CUSTOMERS to me than the awards. Many grape varietal, region or releases HAVE of a new vintage. of our customers have become BECOME our friends and I embrace that OUR Q: What should people every day. FRIENDS expect from your craft beer AND I selection? Q: Do you host holiday EMBRACE DB: We have only five taps, specific events? THAT EVERY but we do something that DB: For the last six years we’ve DAY.” is unique—we change our hosted our Holiday Champagne —DANN selections each time we finish a Tasting in early December. The BEAN keg. We strive to find seasonal last couple of years we’ve done specialty beers from craft brewers. the tasting “blind,” in other words The continuous changing of our taps we cover the bottle and you learn the keeps our beer-drinking customers name and vintage after you’ve finished guessing what they’ll find each time the tasting. After they taste we ask they walk through our doors. them to rate the wine from favorite to least; this always yields many Q: Have you noticed any surprises. We set up tasting stations recent trends in patrons’ wine and pair every champagne with a consumption? carefully selected cheese. It’s a really DB: People seem more willing to leave fun night and a great way to kick off their comfort zone. Our customers the holidays. tend to be very confident that
NATIVE KNOWLEDGE:
Wine flights offered during the holiday season are reflected off what will pair well with your holiday meal.