Learn while you eat all the cheese and drink all the beer during our newest event series at our brand new Bottle Shop at the Franklin! The Culture Club beer and cheese classes will be held right in our bottle shop, and will be led by Certified Cheese Professional and DB veteran, Rocco Rainone, with assistance from our triple threat—Jeff DiMaio—sommelier, cicerone and Certified Cheese Professional.
You will receive five beer samples paired up with five bites of awesome cheese and charcuterie that will transform how you think about flavor profiles. You can record notes or just relish in the stories that our mongers will share with you. This is a true peek behind the curtain of our expert cheesemongers and their love of the craft!
Class this week is lead by Rocco R., our head honcho at the original Italian Market location. A resident of South Philly, Rocco is a true cheese lover. He doesn’t have a favorite cheese, but he always has a “cheese of the moment.” We dig it. Rocco obtained the accredited Certified Cheese Professional designation in 2013. His eye-opening read while he studied for the CCP exam was Paul Kindstedt’s "American Farmstead Cheese".