Farm-to-Table Meets Farm-to-Glass: Clock Tower, Tenmile Team Up

BREWSTER, NY — The Clock Tower Grill and the Tenmile Distillery are teaming up for a special dinner Wednesday night pairing a special menu with the Wassaic company's single malts.

"Guests of ours at Clock Tower Grill visited Tenmile Distillery when it first opened and were very excited about their products," Chef Rich Parente told Patch. "They recommended we meet the owners and we hit it off. We really like their spirits and have done a dinner before that highlighted other spirits they make like gin and vodka but this is the very first time we are doing a dinner with only Little Rest single malts from Tenmile."

The 5-course Single Malt Dinner will highlight game meats paired with new and signature Little Rest single malt releases from Tenmile, and distiller Cole Peck will be on hand to talk about each single malt.

The one-of-a-kind dinner ($125) offers the best of local ingredients, both food and spirits-wise, because the Parentes source all their ingredients from within a 70-mile radius of the Brewster restaurant, including raising pork and lamb on their Clock Tower Farm, while Tenmile Distillery uses only New York State-grown barley for their Little Rest single malt whiskey.

"Since single malts in Scotland go so well with game meats and birds, I created a menu that reflects that with our local quail and elk to go with American single malts," Parente said. "The dinner includes new spring whisky releases – it’s a fun way to try something new and be the first to do so when new bottlings become available. Plus one of their single malts just received a Double Gold in the country's top spirits competition which is quite the achievement for our local New York distiller!"

Read it and drool:

• Pâté with Strawberry Rhubarb (grown on Clock Tower Farm) gelée paired with First Edition Single Malt
• Dried Boar Sausage with McGrath’s Goliath cheese and pretzel toast paired with Founder’s Edition Single Malt
• Grilled Quail with port-melted onions paired with Port Cask Single Malt
• Elk Strip Loin with broccoli and butter-poached potatoes paired with Double-Matured Cask Strength Single Malt
• Basque Goat Cheesecake with local honey paired with Oloroso Sherry Cask Single Malt

(Double Gold is even more prestigious than Gold as it means that every judge at the competition awarded it Gold Medal rating.)

Clock Tower Grill is located off Route 22 at 512 Clock Tower Commons Dr, Brewster, NY 10509; 845-582-0574; clocktowergrill.com; reservations via OpenTable.