Yves Gonnet, a cheesemaker at Midnight Goat Farm, at the Cheese Loves Beer tasting event. / ELLIOT deBRUYN/Free Press
This weekend brings a pair of sold-out events to the Burlington area which showcase two of Vermont’s most deliciously varied, locally-crafted comestibles: the Vermont Cheesemakers’ Festival and the Vermont Brewers Festival.
While each stands by itself, the duo is increasingly enjoyed together and recently shared center stage during a tasting at American Flatbread Burlington Hearth titled, “Cheese Loves Beer.”
It was the 11th such event, co-hosted each summer and fall by Paul Sayler, Burlington Flatbread co-owner and founding brewmaster of the restaurant’s in-house Zero Gravity Brewery, with Ruth Miller of Richmond, a self-described “beer and cheese maven.”
Miller, a longtime home-brewer and video production professional who has a “passionate sideline” consulting for brewers, brew-pubs, taprooms, festivals and events, teamed up with Sayler about five years ago.
