Craft Beer & Gourmet Cuisine: Perfect Together! Well, we knew that!

If you haven't stumbled on this video from the 2010 GABF yet, please check it out. Beer Nation did a nice segment from the Farm to Table Food Pavilion at this year's Great American Beer Festival. Special release craft beers were paired-up with dishes made with local ingredients by students at the Culinary School of the Rockies. This terrific event celebrated the world of craft beer and its well-deserved place at the table. Insert: clapping and whistling!
Events like this give us hope and make us appreciate local breweries and restaurants across the country that are working so hard to create this awareness.

A special shout out to our partner breweries represented here: Stone, New Holland, Oskar Blues and Rogue!

Bon Appetit!

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2010 Great American Beer Festival Farm to Table Menu

APPETIZERS

Roasted Vegetable Napoleon on Spent Grain Cracker with Sweet Onion Jam & Micro Greens
Oskar Blues’ Hoppy Seconds & Sweetwater Brewing Co. – Magnum IP Imperial Pilsner

Three Sisters (Corn, Beans & Squash) Red Quinoa with Southwestern Chile Vinaigrette
Rogue Chocolate Stout

Hazel Dell Wild Mushrooms & Thyme with Creamy Polenta
Odell Brewing Co. – Woodcut #3

Wood Fired “Helios” Chicken Liver Mousse with Stone Fruit Gelee , House Pickle, Apple & Thyme Foccacia
Victory Brewing – Helios

House Made Pork Sausage with Smoked Fingerling Potato, Mixed Cabbage & Pear Slaw
Victory Brewing – V12

MAIN COURSES

Colorado “Tongue of Fire” Stew – Braised Duck, Housemade Rabbit Sausage, Winter Squash & Tongue of Fire Beans
New Holland Brewing Co. Charkoota Rye & Odell Cutthroat Porter

Smoked Trout, Corn Cake & Tomatillo Chutney
Rogue Juniper Pale Ale

Mini Rosemary Buffalo Burger with Windsor Dairy Bleu Cheese & Caramelized Onions on Brioche Bun
Ska – Buster Nut Brown & Stone Brewing Co. – Saison du Buff

Heritage Turkey Confit Quesadillas, Haystack Goat Queso de Mano & Green Heirloom Tomato Pico de Gallo
Sweetwater Brewing Co. – Happy Ending

Tripple M Bar Ranch Lamb Polpette, Mint Pesto, Goat Cheese, Curry Pinenuts, Micro Basil, Balsamic Reduction
Ninkasi Summer Radiant Ale

Aion BLT – Ten Fidy Cured Bacon, Crisp Butterhead Lettuce, Heirloom Tomato, Housemade Aioli & Bread
Oskar Blues Ten Fidy

DESSERT

Housemade Buttermilk Panna Cotta, Honey Tuile & Colorado Berries
New Holland Brewing Co. Dragon’s Milk & Ska Dubbel Blond

Spice Cake with Roasted Pear Compote & Honey Goat Cheese Cream
Stone Brewing Co. Sawyer’s Triple

North Fork Valley Apple & Pine Nut Tartlets with Beer Caramel
Ninkasi Believer Double Red Ale

PARTICIPATING COLORADO FARMS & RANCHES
Hazel Dell Mushrooms, Bear Mountain Ranch, Oxford Gardens, Spring Tree Farms Rabbitry, Isabelle
Farm, Long Family Farms Pork, Grant Family Farms, Red Wagon Organic Farm, Jay Hill Farm, Cure
Organic Farm, Black Cat Farm, Rancho Durazno Farm, Abbondaza Organic Seeds & Produce

Who is Beer Nation?
Taken from their website:
"Beer Nation is a Web-Based Series Exploring the Craft Beer Revolution. Every time you turn around, the taps are multiplying at your local bar. What was once 2 or 3 beers on tap, is now 10 or 15. And these new beers often come from smaller, more creative breweries. Join us as we explore the raging craft beer revolution and discover all there is to know about beer from the brewery to your pint glass, including the brewers, the drinkers, and everyone else that makes this a Beer Nation."

Cheers to that! And speaking on behalf of all those who weren't at this wonderful event, we thank you for doing this video that we can share with all our foodie beer-loving friends!