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March, 2010
For those lucky enough to attend the Inaugural Boulder Sour Beer Festival held by our good friends at Avery Brewing Co. you may have been fortunate enough to taste a very rare unblended version from the Second Golden Ale Pilot Beer, simply referred to as Golden. Golden has been spending time in our new Barrel Room within the comforts of a delicious French Oak Cabernet Barrel awaiting the correct time to be blended into our final offering. For the rest of you who did not have that chance, this photo will have to do for now.
Cheers!
Joe & Zach
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February, 2010
Valentines Day is often considered a cheesy “Holiday” manufactured by the Hallmark company. A time when, although you like craft beer more, you settle for a cleverly named red wine at an expensive restaurant. And most likely, you probably forgot to make reservations to that restaurant. But worry not my fellow intrepid beer aficionado, for with the help of craft chef Krystal Angelo and the hand crafted beers of Odell Brewing Co, I am here to provide you with an even Cheesier way to spend Valentines day with your loved one and/or friends… Fondue!
Krystal and I invited our friend, and fellow Odell Brewer, Chad Yakobson and his wife Silvana over for a night of drinks, cheese, chocolate and fondue gluttony. We chose to continue the Odell At-Home-Beer Dinner series by showcasing the steadfast brands that our brewers have been hand crafting for, in some cases, the past 20 years, while highlighting the seasonal release of our Red Ale. Krystal has kindly provided the recipes and preparation notes for the meal, and I will provide you with some sensory thoughts with regards to cooking with and pairing Odell Beers with Fondue.
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Tags: 5 Barrel Pale Ale, 90 Shilling, At Home Beer Dinner, Beer Dinner, Chicken, Cooking with Beer, Easy Street Wheat, Fondue, IPA, Isolation Ale, Recipe, Red Ale
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January, 2010
As De Oogst (the first pilot beer for the Strong Belgian Golden project) is being enjoyed by you fine supporters of the liquid arts in the tap room, we brewers have reached for our mash paddles and brewed a second pilot batch. Number 2 has been fermenting along nicely and is about ready to take the next step in its journey and be transfered into oak barrels and inoculated with those delicious little single cell miracle workers; Brettanomyces, Pediococcus, and Lactobacillus.
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December, 2009
I am sure many of you fellow craft beer lovers have watched the recent video from the Brewers Association regarding ‘At Home Craft Beer Tasting.’ I could not agree more with what can be gained by having friends over and tasting unique craft beers, especially when paired with delicious craft foods. The new experiences had while savoring craft beer with friends during an ‘at home beer dinner’ are what inspired us to do these in the first place. The write-ups associated with each one we are hosting are to help inspire all of you, whether full Cicerones or just recent graduates into the inspired world of craft beer, with new ideas to try in your home with your friends and our passionately brewed offerings. Most importantly for us here at Odell Brewing is the fun of savoring and dining with friends. For this meal we stripped away any possibility of the “pretentia” that could be associated with craft beer dinners and served up a big ol’ pot of Gumbo paired with our India Barleywine, followed by an old family recipe for Peanut Butta Pie paired with our Bourban Barrel Stout. As always I have provided background for our inspired pairings along with the full recipes, including preparation notes and pairing notes, and some visual imagery. So find the largest stockpot you can (or borrow a kettle from a friend that homebrews) and invite your friends and family over for a pre-holiday pairing of Odell India Barleywine and Gumbo!
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Tags: At Home Beer Dinner, Beer and Food, Bourbon Barrel Stout, Cornbread, Craft Beer Dinner, Craft Beer Tasting, Gumbo, India Barleywine, Peanut Butter Pie
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December, 2009
It is exactly why we pilot brew, because sometimes the best laid plans do not always result in what you thought… and because experimentation is a lot of fun! We wrote a recipe for the first pilot brew for our Strong Belgian Golden that involved a number of ingredients and techniques we personally had little experience with. We were rewarded with a beer much different from beer we “brewed on paper”, but very inspiring to the end goal of the project. Being adventurous and rethinking what has been traditionally accepted about brewing is the reason craft brewers are always progressing while developing new beer styles, brewing techniques, and brewery equipment. Pilot brewing can produce unexpected and delicious results, even if it was not quite what we set out to do!
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Tags: Belgian Pale Ale, De Oogst, Pilot Beers, Single Serve, Strong Belgian Golden
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November, 2009
A meal with friends…
Craft cooking works much like craft brewing, we do not follow a lot of the prescribed rules for style, and pilot batches are really helpful in working out the nuances before serving it up to friends. For our pairing with Woodcut No.3 Oak Aged Crimson Ale, Krystal and I wanted to do something completely different from anything we have ever cooked before, or anything we have ever thought of pairing our beer with before. This approach did require a few ‘pilot batches’ in the nights preceding our meal, but ultimately ended in a delicious 3 course pairing we were able to share with our friends Brendan, Odell Brewing Co’s Production Manager, and his wife Katie, New Belgium Brewing Co’s Quality Control Extraordinaire…
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Tags: At Home Beer Dinner, Cilantro Meatballs, Crab Rangoon, Dark Chocolate Sorbet, Lemon Chicken, Raspberry Citrus Sorbet, Summer Rolls, Vietnamese Food Pairing, Woodcut No.3
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November, 2009
The Single Serve 750ml Series has been fun for us brewers at OBC. Over the past year we have been able to design, develop and brew 5 entirely new beers for 2009. We have also been working on, or have already brewed, numerous beers for release in 2010. We are really excited about developing these new beers and we wanted to let you, the lover of hand-crafted beers, in on the process we go through in developing beers we are excited enough about to serve up to our friends. You can follow our brewers on this Blog as we work on creating and brewing a Strong Belgian Golden for release in a caged and corked 750ml bottle in 2010; from the very first email that started the project, through the various pilot batches, and concluding with the release party in our tasting room.
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Tags: 750ml series, Pilot Beers, Single Serve, Strong Belgian Golden
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November, 2009
All of our 750 ml corked and caged bottle beers are 100% bottle conditioned. This means we add fresh, active yeast to the bottles along with some unfermented sugars to allow the beers to go through a secondary fermentation within the bottle. The beer is flat when bottled and over a period of several weeks the yeast ferments the sugars producing carbon dioxide within the bottle, giving the finished beer it
Tags: 750 ml, Aging, Bottle Conditioning, Bourbon Barrel Stout, Cellaring, India Barleywine, Mountain Standard Reserve, Single Serve, Woodcut Series
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November, 2009
We here at Odell Brewing Co. love sharing our special creations with our friends and for the inaugural release of Mountain Standard Reserve ‘09 I wanted to share this beer in “Mountain Standard style.” The idea for this style came about while spending a weekend during the ‘09 hop harvest camping with fellow Brewers in a hop field along the western slope of Colorado.
To Celebrate this release I wanted to do something new and unique to help share our passion with all of you. I have decided to create and host an “at home beer dinner” and provide all of you with the “how to” so you can do the same. This dinner is a different way to enjoy our newest release, spend some time with friends and learn a little bit about pairing beer with food, all the while saving a bit of money over going out to eat.
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Tags: Beer and antipasto, Beer and Mussels, Beer Dinner, Cooking with Beer, Mountain Standard Reserve
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October, 2009
Ingredients:
Odell IPA – 12oz bottle
Boneless/skinless Chicken Breasts – 4
Dijon Mustard – 3 tbsp.
Brown Sugar – 3 tbsp.
Olive Oil – 3 tbsp.
Soy Sauce – 1 tbsp.
Hot Sauce – 1 tsp.
Kosher Salt – 1 tsp.
Ground Black Pepper – 1/2 tsp.
Directions:
Pour over chicken
Marinate in fridge for 8 hours
Grill or bake chicken as desired
Tags: Chicken, Cooking with Beer, IPA, Marinade, Marinate, Recipe
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