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Beer and Food Pavilion

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Take a break from the main hall and experience the art of beer and food pairings as expert chefs and brewers team up to tempt your taste buds.

The Beer and Food Pavilion will be located in the middle of the festival hall, directly behind the Support Your Local Brewery Pavilion.

Note: Demonstrations are limited to 90 participants and samples provided to seated guests only.

2010 Beer & Food Pavilion Schedule

Thursday, September 16

6:30 pm – 7:00 pm Colorado Cooking & Craft Beer
Bill Eye (Dry Dock Brewing) and Jorge de la Torre (Johnson & Wales Culinary University) team up to pair some local Colorado craft beer with local Colorado cuisine.
7:30 pm – 8:00 pm

Themes & Trends in Beer & Food Pairing
Join the Homebrewer Chef, Sean Z. Paxton, and head pub brewer at Goose Island Beer Co., Jared Rouben, as they highlight themes and trends in the Beer Cuisine arena.  Attendees will be engage in a discussion that focuses on training the palate to identify flavors found in beer that can translate into food and become an integral part of a dish or meal.  Select Goose Island beers will be poured and used as part of a cooking with beer demonstration, and as an ingredient, offering an opportunity to sample cooking with beer theory, from concept to taste.
8:30 pm – 9:00 pm Belgian-Style Beer & Culinary Delights
Chef Teddy Folkman of Granville Moore’s in Washington, DC teams up with Susan Greene of the Global Brewers Guild to pair Belgian-style beers with culinary delights.

Friday, September 17

6:30 pm – 7:00 pm

Craftbeer.com Presents Beer & Food Pairing 101
Join Julia Herz of the Brewers Association & Craftbeer.com  and Fred Bueltmann of New Hollands Brewing Co.  as they tour you though the world of beer ingredients and pairing to show why craft beer is helping beer reclaim beer’s place at the dinner table. This 30 minute presentation will cover beer and food pairing basics, and include sampling of 3 different craft beers and pairings with chocolate, cheese plus a sampling of malt and hops.
7:30 pm – 8:00 pm Street Food & Craft Beers
Top Chef season 5 winner, Hosea Rosenberg, brings his newest venture StrEAT Chefs to the GABF. Teaming up with Adam Avery of Avery Brewing Co., they will pair some delectable street foods with craft brewed American beer.
8:30 pm – 9:00 pm

The Unparalleled Pairing: Beer, Cheese & the Confluence of Flavor
Join Beer Sommelier Greg Engert, of Washington, DC’s Birch & Barley and ChurchKey, as he discusses what wine experts have clandestinely noted for some time now: that beer and cheese constitute the quintessence of food and beverage pairing. Greg will examine the artisanal aspects of American hand-crafted beer and cheese, and reveal the myriad ways that these authentically flavorful products dovetail for an enhanced culinary experience.  Four different American Craft Brews will be artfully matched with four American Artisanal Cheeses.

Saturday, September 18

3:30 pm – 4:15 pm Exotic Wood Aged Beers & The Foods That Love Them
Dogfish Head Craft Brewery founder and president, Sam Calagione, presents beers aged on exotic woods paired with exciting food dishes.
6:30 pm – 7:00 pm Beer & Nuts for the Beer Nut
The Beer Fox, Carolyn Smagalski, pairs nutty craft beers with an assortment of seasoned nuts and breads made with nuts.
7:30 pm – 8:30 pm

Fire & Ice: A Beer and Seafood Throwdown from the 49th and 50th States

Alaskan Brewing’s Curtis Holmes and Maui Brewing’s Garrett Marrero will meet up in a fight of the fish to pair locally-harvested, fresh sustainable seafood from their respective corners of the Pacific Ocean with their locally-inspired brews. These guys have come a long way to discuss the best way to pair and prepare seafood and to bring you the fresh flavors of Alaska and Hawaii.

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