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Beer is finally getting respect in serious food circles. Today, learning to pair your meal with an ale or porter is nearly as respectable as a pairing it to a Burgundy or Bordeaux.
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Beer & Chocolate Pairings
Edible Idaho Feature: 0128GH_BeerPairing.wav Feature 3:51 01/28/11 GH/
[INTRO] I’m Guy Hand and this is Edible Idaho, celebrating 2011: The Year of Idaho Food.. (3:51 to outro ; ambient sound to 4:05; fade at will)
[SCRIPT]
(Store sounds) Hand: I’m at the Boise Coop with four people whose jobs I suddenly envy. They’re here today to find the perfect beer and cheese paring for the Front Door restaurant’s 1st Thursday beer tasting.
Hand: Is the beer and cheese tasting usually pretty popular? Cera: Yeah, way popular. We usually sell out. We have enough to do 30, to do 30 plates, and we always do sell out.
Hand: That’s Cera Grindstaff with Boise’s Front Door restaurant. Matt Gelsthorpe is the Boise Coops beer buyer.
Gelsthorpe: Cera e-mailed me yesterday with the beer list and what I did is I’ve tasted the majority of these beers before so I started grabb...
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