Smokehouse: Barbecue and Brews at Epcot Flower and Garden Festival

The Smokehouse: Barbecue and Brews at Epcot Flower and Garden Festival features heavy, southern dishes with seasonally sides. American craft beers are featured along side these southern classics. In the American pavilion you can see them smoking the meats next to the marketplace booth.

Menu

• Pulled Pig Slider with Cole Slaw
• Smoked Beef Brisket with Collard Greens and Jalapeno Corn Bread
• Rocky Road Brownie Mousse
• The Original Rib Shack Red Wine
• Mama’s Little Yella Pils (Czech-style Pilsner)
• Liberty Ale from Anchor Brewing Company, San Francisco, Ca. (India Pale Ale)
• Red Ale from Orlando Brewing, Orlando, Fla. (Red Ale- Organic)
• Blackwater Porter from Orlando Brewing Company, Orlando, Fla. (Stout- Organic)
• Beer Flight

We found the smoked beef brisket with collard greens and jalapeño cornbread to be really good. Definitely not the best, but pretty good. If you live where barbecue is king then you might be a little disappointed. The jalapeño cornbread was fantastic and we liked the collard greens as a side. There is a very small condiment station that gives you the option of sweet and spicy barbecue sauces, so everyone is covered.

The dessert option is rocky road brownie mousse which was different than we had anticipating. We were expecting it to be a mousse cup (like the pumpkin mousse during Food and Wine) with small marshmallows and brownie bits, but instead it was more of brownie. All in all it was good. We paired the Blackwater porter from Orlando Brewing Company with it. Since porter has a strong flavor with natural sweetness it went well with the brownie.

Have you checked out the food and drinks at The Smokehouse: Barbecue and Brews? What was your favorite?