Over the past decade you’ve seen them in tasting rooms, those usually high ABV stouts that mimic your favorite treats from donuts to cake to cookies and more. This is the pastry stout.
So how are they made; what do brewers do to get those flavors infused into beers, and what is the pastry stout’s future? On this episode of the All About Beer podcast Em Sauter and Don Tse talk to two breweries who are on the cutting edge of pastry and discuss all things dessert–the perfect episode right before Halloween!
Listen in as Lindsay Langton of Bottle Logic and Robert Olson of Bolero Snort talk about barrels, adjuncts, and making the most of boozy dark ale.
Guests
Lindsay Langton
Lindsay Langton is the Creative Director at Bottle Logic Brewing. A former Disneyland Resort Tour Guide, Lindsay developed a love for storytelling through hospitality and went on to open a series of restaurants, including California Adventure’s Carthay Circle, where she developed the Beer Education Program used throughout the Disney Parks. With a trusty team of fellow innovators, she now designs Bottle Logic’s barrel blends, brand portfolio, marketing strategies, and guest experience.
Robert Olson
After a few years of home brewing, Bob Olson started brewing beer commercially in 2013. After 6.5 years of gypsy/contract brewing at over 15 area facilities, Bolero Snort opened their own 16,000 SF production facility in the heart of the Meadowlands in 2019. As Northern NJ’s largest craft producer, they have expanded beyond their roots of boundary pushing, sugar laden suds – with a renewed focus on crafting high quality hop forward beers and lagers, they continue to hone their skills as one of the state’s premier sour brewers, most recently winning Silver at this year’s GABF for their core Jersey Vice, a tart session with raspberry and lime.
This Episode is Sponsored by:
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Em Sauter
Called the “Bob Ross of beer” by Imbibe magazine, Em Sauter is an award winning cartoonist, author, beer judge, journalist and public speaker based in the US and is the founder of the website Pints and Panels which teaches visual drinks education. She has an MFA in cartooning from the famous Center for Cartoon Studies, is an Advanced Cicerone®, holds WSET Level 2 in Spirits and Wine and is an BJCP certified international beer judge who has judged high-profile competitions on every continent but Antarctica. She is the co-host of the All About Beer podcast along with Canadian drinks writer Don Tse. She has contributed to Forbes, Brewers and Distillers International, Craft Beer and Brewing, Vinepair, Outside, The Alcohol Professor and more. She is the author of four books on beer.
Don Tse
Living near seven malthouses, Don Tse is a freelance beer and malt writer and consultant known globally as The Don of Beer. He has been active in craft beer for over 25 years and has famously sampled and written tasting notes on over 31,000 different beers. He is the co-host of the All About Beer podcast. Don has also written for magazines and presented on beer in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Ukraine and Singapore. Nobody in those countries thinks his jokes are funny.