Beer

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Beer Food

• Celebrating the Seasons
• Beer Styles Food Pairing

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When is your birthday?

• March May?
• June August?
• September November?
• December February?

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When is your birthday?

• March May Spring
• June August Summer
• September November Fall
• December February Winter

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Read Two Great Books!

• A great book on this topic is Stephen Beaumonts
  A Taste for Beer
  
• Another is Cooking with Beer, by Lucy Saunders
• Not only do both books cover these topics in
  detail, the books also contains wonderful recipes

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Beaumonts 5 Steps

• Try everything your can get your hands on
• When traveling, look for local beer fare
• Think about your beer
• Involve your friends
• Get informed and stay informed

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To Drink or To Cook?

• Dont go overboard with either decision
• Beer can add distinction to certain dishes
• Other dishes have no need for beer in the recipe,
  but a beer on the side might be great
  
• When added as an ingredient in a recipe, many
  sources suggest using the same beer as the
  beverage choice but its not a rule!
  
• Think about pasta with red sauce

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Cooking with Beer

• Hoppy beers add bitterness (lemon juice or
  vinegar)
  
• Malty beers adds sweetness (high sugar root
  veggies onion, carrots, shallots)
  
• Yeasty beers add bite tenderizing enzymes
  (baked goods and batters)
  

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Cooking with Beer

• Toasty (roasted grain) or smoky beers add the
  same roasted bitterness as in the taste (some
  sauces, marinades, or to deglaze)
  
• Fruity flavors (Lambic styles, barley wines) can
  work to plump dried fruits with complementary
  flavors, to poach fish or to barbecue poultry
  

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Three Cs of Pairing

• Cut acidity and bitterness of hops often cut
  through rich flavors (buttery, cheesy)
  
• Complement sweet, malty flavor of some styles
  can complement sweet dishes (think honey) or
  caramelized onions
  
• Contrast dark, roasted character will contrast
  with the briny or salty flavors refreshing
  styles contrast with spicy foods

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The Seasons of Beer

• So Cal seems to lack seasonality, but only from a
  weather perspective
  
• Seasons are also about attitudes, feelings and
  memories
  
• What do you think of when you hear the word
  Spring, Summer, Autumn or Winter?

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Spring

• The Season of Bock
• Maibock - the bock of May
• Bocks pair well with mildly pungent cheese, duck,
  game,
  
• Also Bitters Extra Special Bitter (ESB), India
  Pale Ale (IPA), Extra Pale Ale (EPA)
  
• Bitters with salmon, meaty fish, red meat, pork,
  roasted poultry, game, BBQ

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Summer

• Lawn Mower Beers Patio Beers
• Light, crisp, clean and refreshing
• Wheat beers (Belgian Witbier, German weisse or
  weizen, hefeweizen)
  
• Mild and light ales, some Belgian Trappist ales
• Light lagers, light beers, some Vienna-style
  lager

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Autumn

• The Bountiful Harvest lots to choose from
• Marzen (brewed in March) for Oktoberfest, various
  bocks and doppelbocks
  
• Brown ales, pale ales, strong bitters, India pale
  ales, red ales, Scotch ale, Belgian reds,
  German-style altbier, dunkelweizen

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Winter

• The Winter Warmers Fireside Beers
• Think Filling Satisfying
• Winter bock styles, strong lagers
• Stouts, porter, old ale, barley wine, some
  Belgian ales
  
• Also, many breweries produce specialty seasonal
  beers
  
• Typically thick, rich, malty and higher alcohol
  content

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The Wine Analogy

• Red Ale / White Lager
• Just like the wine rule its made to be
  broken more loopholes than the tax code
  
• Ale is the beer full or light bodied?
• Lager is the beer full or light bodied?
• This method is a great place to start, then
  ponder the mental season and the 3 Cs

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Food the 3 Cs
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Food the 3 Cs
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Food the 3 Cs