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Patrick Rue, owner of The Brewery toasts us with one of his creations – made only steps away!<\/p><\/div>A Pizza Pairing<\/strong> (by Brad English)<\/em><\/p>\n
As you know, we have been filming another quest and Peter has already explained what we have been working on.\u00a0 We are doing a Beer and Pizza pairing. That may not sound like big news since Pairings are done in restaurants all over the country on a regular basis.\u00a0 The difference here is that we came up with a twist on the traditional pairing concept. In our ongoing effort to explore what drives and defines true artisanship we have turned this concept on it’s head. In the words of Inigo Montoya, “Let me ‘splain.”<\/p>\n The Saison Rue paired with Kelly’s slow cooked Sous Vide Beef Short Rib<\/p><\/div>While filming with Kelly Whitaker at Pizzeria Basta in Boulder last fall he poured a beer for us to pair with his incredible Sous Vide Beef Short Ribs (he made this for Peter in one of our webisodes, which you haven’t seen yet).\u00a0 Luckily, he poured a few more glasses for those of us behind the camera.\u00a0 It was a “Bruery Saison Rue” (Farm Ale), light and crisp with a hint of citrus, but also a deeper undertones that made it substantial — yet it was somehow still light and refreshing.\u00a0 You could see that Kelly was not only happy about the fact that it went so well with his short rib masterpiece, but quite proud of this beer, and even more so with the brewery called, pun intended, The Bruery.\u00a0 Patrick Rue is the owner – and, I admit it took me more than a little while to really put that part of the pun together! \u00a0 Kelly continued telling me about The Bruery after we had finished filming the segment, and told me to look them up because they were in Orange County, Ca not far from where I lived.\u00a0 We moved on and filmed the rest of the day, but I couldn’t stop thinking about that beer.<\/p>\n I browsed their website (www.thebruery.com) and kept trying to look for an opportunity to go down to the brewery on the weekend, when they open it up to the public.\u00a0 They also schedule a gourmet food truck to be there each night which, again, sparked my interest.\u00a0 From what Kelly told me, and from what I could see on their website and the fact that they brought in gourmet food trucks, I knew something more was going on here; these guys understood the connection between their beers and food.\u00a0 <\/p>\n My wife and I finally got to go out one night, after shuttling the kids off to the grandparents!\u00a0 We took a trip down to Old Town Orange to go taste beers at The Bruery Provisions.\u00a0 This is their gourmet beer store, where they feature a great tasting room dedicated not only to their own beers, but also a gourmet cheese shop, a selection of fine wines, and one of the best selections of other artisan beers I’ve ever seen in one place.\u00a0 Needless to say, we enjoyed a couple of flights of\u00a0 beers, with a few small plates of various cheeses, which started the night off just right.\u00a0 I also walked away with several 750 ml bottles of The Bruery’s finest.<\/p>\n Kelly Whitaker said that there was something special about drinking a beer in the place it was made.<\/p><\/div>As a result, I decided I had to get in touch with them and began to think that, like our detour with the fish taco king Adam Pollard at the Taco Temple up in Morro Bay, these guys at The Bruery must have something to add to the conversation on artisanship, craftsmanship, dedication, and the journey we were on.\u00a0 So, I reached out, hoping that I might be able to get them to talk about their craft and even write about it on our website. I got an email back from Benjamin Weiss, of The Bruery, almost right away.\u00a0 Ben, who is the VP of Marketing, got my email and and was intrigued enough to wander over to look at Pizza Quest.\u00a0 He got back to me right away, letting me know how much he loved our site and the idea of getting together to see what we could make of this connection and our shared interest.\u00a0 He went on about how much they all loved food and, in particular, pizza.\u00a0 We quickly realized that the connection between beer and pizza was there and worth exploring further.\u00a0 Again, my thought was if we could explore artisanship, comparing the craft and art of creating great pizza or food with the art of brewing their fine, hand-crafted beers, we could both benefit and maybe push this connection around a bit. <\/em><\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/www.fornobravo.com\/pizzaquest\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/08\/img_2887_2.jpg\" "\\"The")
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