{"id":332,"date":"2007-09-21T12:35:59","date_gmt":"2007-09-21T19:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/loosening-the-belt-for-the-session-8\/"},"modified":"2007-09-21T12:35:59","modified_gmt":"2007-09-21T19:35:59","slug":"loosening-the-belt-for-the-session-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/loosening-the-belt-for-the-session-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Loosening the belt for The Session #8"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"TheI think I put on five pounds this week just reading or thinking about food and beer together<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Lucy Saunders’ new book<\/a>\"\" arrived in the mail this week, I received a press release about a beer cookbook out in January and I chatted with a chef who has a different, and I think excellent, idea on how to approach a beer cookbook.<\/p>\n

So I couldn’t help thinking that in just two weeks we’ll be loosening our belts for The Session #8, since Beer Haiku Daily<\/a> has made the theme Beer & Food<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

I’m already warming to the task.<\/p>\n

Today a bit about Tuesdays at one of my local brewpubs, Chama River Brewing<\/a> in Albuquerque. Each Tuesday the restaurant offers a three-course dinner, with the selections changing once a month. Customers can order just the meal ($25), the meal with wine ($45), or the meal with beer ($35). <\/p>\n

Most often the beers come from Chama’s six-beer regular lineup. I’ve copied the August menu here because it included a seasonal.<\/p>\n

1st Course<\/strong>
\nChorizo and Wild Mushroom Strudel
\nSpinach Salad and Port Wine Syrup
\nBeer Flight:<\/strong> Paired with \u2013 Demolition Dubbel
\nWine Flight:<\/strong> Paired with \u2013 Vivac \u201cV\u201d Reserve Merlot<\/p>\n

2nd Course<\/strong>
\nSeared Sea Scallops
\nApple and Belgian Endive, Fingerling Potatoes and Brown Butter
\nBeer Flight:<\/strong> Paired with \u2013 Copper John Pale Ale
\nWine Flight:<\/strong> Paired with \u2013 Casal Garcia Vinho Verde<\/p>\n

3rd Course<\/strong>
\nChocolate Banana Wontons
\nCoconut Dipping Sauce
\nBeer Flight:<\/strong> Paired with \u2013 Sleeping Dog Stout
\nWine Flight:<\/strong> Paired with \u2013 Rocha White Port<\/p>\n

Part of a family of restaurants, with siblings that earn Wine Spectator<\/em> awards, Chama offers a well chosen and reasonably (but not cheaply) priced wine list.<\/p>\n

But I always drink the beer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I think I put on five pounds this week just reading or thinking about food and beer together. Lucy Saunders’ new book arrived in the mail this week, I received a press release about a beer cookbook out in January and I chatted with a chef who has a different, and I think excellent, idea … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beer-food","category-the-session"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-5m","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}