We think we might just have found the new best pairing, as last week the Hog Roast Rugby team headed out to the brilliant Rugby Gin Distillery to help cater for a very special surprise birthday party.
The pairing we are of course talking about is our hog roast with a good dry gin from the Rugby Distillery. A bit of tender meatiness, a bit of salty pork, with a delicious and refreshing gin from the distillery – it was good enough to fuel the festivities of 45 guests and their very special, unwitting birthday host, who enjoyed an excellent surprise by friends and family to mark their birthday. With our hog roast in attendance and gin on tap from the distillery, there was no way this wasn’t going to be an incredible evening of celebration.
The Hog Roast Rugby team were contacted about the surprise birthday some time back. Our team are well used to catering for surprise parties at this point, so anytime a customer comes with us with such a request we can always assure them that we will keep our work covert for as long as needed. Even with a whole hog roast to move around, our mobile roasting machine makes it easy to keep things discreet until right when the surprise needs to be sprung and our hog roast can be shown off to seal the deal. It always works just perfectly; the birthday host gets one surprise from all of their friends and family shouting surprise, and then a follow up surprise comes when they see what magnificent dining is available in our hog roast.
The third surprise here, then, was just how well our dining could suit the venue. With gin available from the distillery, we had guests trying all sorts of combinations with our hog roast rolls. A gin martini, a gin and tonic, straight up – it all went excellently with our vast menu of tender meats, refreshing salad and slaws, and grilled veg and halloumi skewers.
Our thanks to Rugby Distillery for being such great hosts, to our birthday host for the celebrations, and for everyone involved in the surprise for having Hog Roast Rugby along for the fun!