Bean to Barstool

David Nilsen
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Bean to Barstool

A podcast exploring the intersections of craft beer and craft chocolate.

  1. 4 DAYS AGO · BONUS

    Bonus: Pairing the Beers of Chimay with Craft Chocolate

    The Chimay line of Belgian ales are brewed at Scourmont Abbey in bucolic Chimay, Belgium, under the supervision of the Trappist monks who call the abbey home. The monastery was founded in 1850 and has been brewing and selling beer to support the upkeep of the property and the lives of the brothers since 1862. Many Belgian beer styles pair beautifully with craft or bean to bar chocolate, and the beers of the Chimay line exemplify this. Let’s talk about craft chocolate pairings for Chimay’...

    11 min

  2. DEC 3

    Kathryn Laverack and Victoria Hopper on Cacao & Chocolate Cocktails

    Chocolate educator Kathryn Laverack of Cocoa Encounters and The Brown Cow pub proprietor Victoria Hopper have partnered on numerous chocolate and drink pairings, and events highlighting chocolate or cacao cocktails. I recently sat down with Kathryn and Victoria to ask them about the union of cacao and spirits, what they’ve learned from each other, and what they’d like people to understand about making chocolate or cacao drinks. Along the way we discuss specific cocktail and pairing ideas they...

    53 min

  3. NOV 19 · BONUS

    Bite Sized: Nick Davis of One One Cacao

    Welcome to Bean to Barstool Bite Sized, where we spend about 5 minutes with some of our favorite people from craft beer and craft chocolate. Today we hear from Nick Davis, the founder and chocolate maker at One One Cacao in Jamaica. In this clip, Nick talks about some of the challenges facing cacao farmers and laborers in Jamaica, what needs to change give craft chocolate more visibility, and how making chocolate can help Nick’s family and other Jamaican families reclaim their heritage. ...

    6 min

  4. NOV 12

    Zadkiela Rios on Pairing Beer, Chocolate, and Other Indulgences

    Zadkiela Rios is a chemical engineer by training and a brewing professional by trade. Zadky isfrom Venezuela originally and is currently working in Australia, and she's best known to beer, beverage, and chocolate fans on Instagram as @Zadky_Beer_to_Bar. She and I have followed each other for years, and it’s been fun to not only follow her interest in pairing beer and craft chocolate—a niche interest not too many other people have put an emphasis on—but also her polyglot fluency in a range of ...

    40 min

  5. OCT 29

    Midwest Craft Chocolate Festival: Cacao, Farming, & Flavor in the Heartland

    The inaugural Midwest Craft Chocolate Festival will take place Friday-Saturday, November 22-23 in the small town of Rushville, Indiana. This is a really unique event in the world of craft chocolate. Most of our festivals are in big cities on the coasts—New York, Seattle, San Francisco—but craft chocolate is all about cacao, the farms where it’s grown, and the farmers and farm workers who grow it, so where better to hold a celebration of chocolate than a farming community in America’s heartlan...

    44 min

  6. OCT 8

    Coffee, Cacao, Cocktails, and Curiosity with Charlene Cabioch

    While the bean in Bean to Barstool primarily refers to cacao for chocolate, and the barstool to craft beer, we have also covered craft coffee and spirits on this podcast periodically, and we’re looking at doing that more often going forward. Today’s guest brings both of those worlds together, giving new meaning to the name Bean to Barstool. Charlene Cabioch is a barista and mixologist from France who has a deep knowledge of both specialties, and has professional awards to prove it. She w...

    44 min

  7. SEP 24

    Every Bean Has a Story: Monica Rogan of Goodnow Farms

    Few names in craft chocolate carry as much esteem as Goodnow Farms. Tom and Monica Rogan founded the company in Sudbury, Massachusetts, in 2015, and they cover pretty much the full spectrum of what bean to bar chocolate is all about in their portfolio of chocolate bars, including elegant single origin bars, classic inclusion bars with coffee, nuts, or fruit, unusual inclusions like caramelized onions or green Sichuan peppers, and bars made in collaboration with craft alcohol producers. In thi...

    45 min

  8. SEP 10 · BONUS

    Bite Sized: 5 Minutes with Raven Hanna

    Welcome to Bean to Barstool Bite Sized, where we spend about 5 minutes with some of our favorite people from craft beer and craft chocolate. Today we hear from Raven Hanna, a molecular biochemist and biophysicist and the author of the book One Cacao Tree: Backyard Cocoa, Tiny Fermentations, and Chocolate Making in the Tropics. In this clip, Raven talks about tasting everything we can to expand our flavor vocabularies, and about how creating stories around tasting experiences can help us remem...

    5 min
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About

A podcast exploring the intersections of craft beer and craft chocolate.

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  • Creator
    David Nilsen
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2024
  • Episodes
    142
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2024 Bean to Barstool
  • Show Website
    Bean to Barstool

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