Best Tracy Silverman Podcasts (2025)

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How to Build Collective Power: Good Organizing with Sulma Arias 38:19

5d ago38:19

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Show NotesWe have good reason to feel scared about what’s happening nationally and globally. And yet, as Sulma Arias, Executive Director of Peoples’ Action, reminds us in this week’s podcast, there are so many incredible opportunities for change in our own local communities.Whether it’s removing lead from the school playground or installing a stop …

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Front Porch Chocolate 1:06:25

11d ago1:06:25

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In this episode, we talk with Greg & T from Front Porch Chocolate in Montana. They've crafted many of their excellent inclusion bars—Including Chai Rose, Fig & Cherry, and Strawberry Lemon—with beer pairing in mind, and here we talk with them about the concepts behind their bars and the beer pairings they've designed for each. The bars we discuss i…

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Pairing and Tasting with Estelle Tracy (Episode 100!) 1:03:46

25d ago1:03:46

1:03:46

For our 100th full length episode of Bean to Barstool, we're talking with an old friend and supporter of the pod, Estelle Tracy. Estelle leads chocolate tastings and pairings through her business, 37 Chocolates, and in this episode we're tasting and pairing the adventurous bars from her new curated collection. Which wines and beers do we pair with …

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Lewis Kaplan 56:22

1M ago56:22

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45 years after graduating from The Juilliard School, I have a chance to chat with my former violin professor there, Lewis Kaplan. At 91, Kaplan is a senior professor of violin and chamber music at Juilliard and is still running 2 Bach Festivals. We chat about the legendary Ivan Galamian, who we both studied with, whether or not I practiced as a stu…

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Chocolate, Music, and Irish Whiskey with NearyNogs Chocolate 50:49

1M ago50:49

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In this episode, we talk with Dorothy Neary of NearyNogs Chocolate in Northern Ireland. We discuss the importance of music in Irish culture and how it's influenced several of their chocolate bars, the use of distinctly Irish ingredients like gorse flower and seaweed, and the beautiful natural landscape around their factory that influences them crea…

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Healing Intergenerational Trauma Part Two with Francesca Mason Boring 47:21

2M ago47:21

47:21

In part two of our conversation with Francesca Mason-Boring, we explore how to help well and shore ourselves up for the work of social justice. We discuss how to release demonizing and patronizing ways of seeing each other and approach our work from a strong, clear place, disentangled from the traumas of the past.This podcast is part two to a two-p…

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Healing Intergenerational Trauma Part One with Francesca Mason Boring 47:35

2M ago47:35

47:35

Francesca Mason-Boring, one of Katherine’s most beloved and influential teachers, introduces listeners to family systems constellations, a profound healing modality for transforming intergenerational trauma.This podcast is part one to a two-part episode. In Part One, Francesca shares about the indigenous roots of this methodology, how it can suppor…

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Drinking Intentionally with Namesake Coffee 1:08:15

2M ago1:08:15

1:08:15

In this episode we talk with Michael Beans of Namesake Coffee in Dayton, Ohio. Michael and his wife and business partner, Jessica Beans, run Namesake with thought and intention, infusing their personalities into every aspect of their business. They want to remove the intimidation factor from good coffee, eliminating the snobbery and gatekeeping tha…

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Nico Silverman of Diego's Chocolate 57:44

2M ago57:44

57:44

Diego Hernandez started Diego's Chocolate at Lake Atitlan in Guatemala in 1990. Diego and his family are of Tz’utujil Mayan heritage, and he adapted his abuela's sipping chocolate recipe into a unique format—rolls of untempered chocolate, often made with unique inclusions. All of the cacao and inclusions are grown in Guatemala. In this episode, we …

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How to Make Decisions that Work for Everyone with Miki Kashtan 1:00:44

3M ago1:00:44

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How do we make decisions that honor everyone’s needs, even in high stakes situations? Katherine explores this question with Miki Kashtan, founder of the Nonviolent Global Liberation community and the creator of Convergent Facilitation.In these times, we need new, revolutionary processes to help us get underneath the surface of our conflicts and lis…

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Chasing Wonder with Serge Savchuk of Vaka Chocolate 37:28

3M ago37:28

37:28

I recently talked with Serge Savchuk, owner and chocolate maker at Vaka Chocolate in London, Ontario. We talked about the inspiration behind his spirits-infused or -inspired bars, including bars made with whisky, absinthe, gin, and rum, using spirits from North of 7 Distillery and Junction 56 Distillery. We also talked about what motivates him in d…

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How to Address Harmful Impact with Nonviolent Communication with Roxy Manning 1:18:11

3M ago1:18:11

1:18:11

Have you not known whether to speak up when hearing someone make a harmful comment?Wondered how to center the impacted person without causing further harm?Or what to say when you do speak up?If so, I hope you’ll tune in to the latest episode of Conflict Decoded—How to Address Harmful Impact with Nonviolent Communication—with clinical psychologist a…

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Roots Forged In Fire—Tandy Peterson of Embers Chocolate 49:50

3M ago49:50

49:50

Much of Tandy Peterson's life and career has been shaped by fire, from childhood memories of camping to working as a chef in a fine dining restaurant that cooked exclusively over fire. When she started making craft chocolate, she chose the name Embers as a nod to point when a cooking fire is perfectly cooked down, a moment of perfection. In this ep…

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The Hidden Group Dynamics that Lead to Workplace Conflict with Tracy Wallach 54:11

4M ago54:11

54:11

Podcast Intro:Earlier this year, I experienced a conflict in my role as a city councilor that was very hard for me to understand.It was one of those moments that felt very confusing, like what was going on had way more to do with dynamics below the surface, in the group’s unconscious, than it had to do with the actual content we were discussing.In …

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"How Great Is Mexico?" — Cervercería Itañeñe & Tout Chocolat 57:34

4M ago57:34

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In today's episode, we talk with Lucia Carrillo—founder and head brewer at Cervecería Itañeñe in Mexico City, a very small brewery that’s big on flavor, often using ingredients from Mexican culinary traditions, or even endemic to the country—and her partner Rodrigo Romo, who also brews at Itañeñe and works at Tout Chocolat making craft chocolate ba…

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Staying Soft With Each Other While Growing Strong Movements with Dara Silverman 59:22

4M ago59:22

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Episode IntroSomatics practitioner and anti-racist trainer, Dara Silverman, reminds us this week that to build strong movements, those of us who are committed to bringing forth a world in which all peoples’ needs are met, will need to offer ourselves and each other softness in these times.When we write people off, point fingers in blame, and narrow…

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Yellow Bird Chocolate & Albion Malleable Brewing 39:06

4M ago39:06

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In this episode, we talk with Jenny Risner-Wade, owner and chocolate maker at Yellow Bird Chocolate, and her husband, Ben Wade, co-founder and brewer at Albion Malleable Brewing Company, both in Albion, Michigan. When a chocolate maker and a brewer share a home and a life, ideas can flow back and forth and lead to unique collaborations. In this cas…

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How to Deliver Hard-to-Hear Feedback with Heather Younger 54:24

5M ago54:24

54:24

Does someone in your workplace, community, or another realm of your life frustrate or disappoint you?Do you want to know how to give them some feedback without damaging the relationship?I recently found myself in a situation like this, and my podcast guest this week, Heather Younger, organizational culture strategist and leading expert on active li…

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Flights Across America with Joel Geier 49:07

5M ago49:07

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I love beer flights. One of the things that makes craft beer so much fun is its sheer variety of styles, interpretations of those styles, and ways of using those styles for flavor experimentation. A flight is an opportunity to explore. A flight board might have an Abbey Dubbel, a Munich Dunkel, an ESB, and a Biere de Garde, taking you on a sensory …

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How to Stop Fighting Each Other and Start Fighting the System with Denise Padín Collazo 52:14

5M ago52:14

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In this episode of Conflict Decoded, I sit down with Denise Padín Collazo, a veteran leader in grassroots organizing and author of Thriving in the Fight: A Survival Manual for Latinas on the Front Lines of Change. Together, we dive into the heart of what it takes to build a better world without tearing each other down. Denise shares her insights on…

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Bonus: Pairing the Beers of Chimay with Craft Chocolate 11:29

6M ago11:29

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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 beautiful…

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The Benign Neglect of Teams (& What to do About it) with Bennett Bratt 58:54

6M ago58:54

58:54

SHOW NOTESOur teams arguably offer our biggest lever for social change.And yet, teams are vastly ignored.In our conversation this week, Bennett Bratt, a team coach with over thirty years experience supporting teams, shares his personal mission—reversing the benign neglect of teams.If you find yourself struggling with frustration in your teams or a …

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Kathryn Laverack and Victoria Hopper on Cacao & Chocolate Cocktails 54:03

6M ago54:03

54:03

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, …

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Bite Sized: Nick Davis of One One Cacao 6:17

6M ago6:17

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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 cha…

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White Women Cry & Call Me Angry by Dr. Yanique Redwood with Jill Poklemba 1:10:57

7M ago1:10:57

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In this episode, I’m joined by Jill Poklemba in an honest conversation inspired by Dr. Yanique Redwood’s White Women Cry & Call Me Angry. We get into the messy and uncomfortable realities of whiteness in social justice spaces—how it shows up in ways white people don’t always notice, and how terms like “progressive” can sometimes do more to mask int…

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Zadkiela Rios on Pairing Beer, Chocolate, and Other Indulgences 41:34

7M ago41:34

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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 …

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Navigating Difficult Leadership Decisions with Shalini Bahl 55:31

7M ago55:31

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One of the hardest things about being a leader is needing to make choices that will make someone you care about mad, no matter what you do. My guest for this week’s episode of Conflict Decoded, former Amherst, MA, town councilor and mindfulness teacher Dr. Shalini Bahl, knows this dynamic well.As Shalini shares in our conversation, to make wise dec…

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Midwest Craft Chocolate Festival: Cacao, Farming, & Flavor in the Heartland 45:11

7M ago45:11

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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 gro…

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The Social Change Ecosystem Map with Deepa Iyer 57:00

7M ago57:00

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With so many interlocking, overwhelming crises in the world today, it can be so hard to find our role. But when we try to do everything all at once or avoid what needs our attention, we can show up in ways that we later regret and burn ourselves out.As long-time activist and Senior Director of Strategic Initiatives at Building Movement Project, Dee…

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Reweaving Kinship & Trust in Our Teams with Beth Tener 1:03:54

8M ago1:03:54

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Conflict avoidance isn’t a personality flaw. It’s a survival strategy in the face of manufactured scarcity.Of course, there is abundant potential for leadership, wisdom, and trust.And yet, living in hierarchies, we perceive a scarcity of leadership. With expert-driven learning, we perceive a scarcity of wisdom. With separation culture, we perceive …

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Coffee, Cacao, Cocktails, and Curiosity with Charlene Cabioch 45:21

8M ago45:21

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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. Charlen…

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Creating Equitable Workplaces: Embracing Difference with Minal Bopaiah 58:56

8M ago58:56

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When we get into a disagreement, we often see the other person as the problem. But so often, our conflicts are rooted in systemic factors in our organizations and society, like pay structures and decision-making processes.To create equitable workplaces and communities where peoples’ needs are met, we must stop butting heads against each other and z…

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The Neuroscience of Human Connection with Sarah Peyton 1:03:31

8M ago1:03:31

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Sarah Peyton is a neuroscience educator, Nonviolent Communication trainer, and, as a good friend of mine calls her, “brain whisperer.”Her live events, online courses, and bestselling books have transformed my coaching work and have helped my clients and me unstuck from many limiting personal and interpersonal patterns.We talk about the neuroscience…

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Welcome to Conflict Decoded! 8:21

8M ago8:21

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Hello and welcome to Conflict Decoded, where we explore the hidden dynamics that keep us stuck in conflict in our workplaces and communities and share practical guidance to help us break free.My name is Katherine Golub. I’m a coach, mediator, city councilor, activist, mother, and the founder of the Center for Callings & Courage. I live on the ances…

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Every Bean Has a Story: Monica Rogan of Goodnow Farms 46:11

8M ago46:11

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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,…

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Bite Sized: 5 Minutes with Raven Hanna 5:15

9M ago5:15

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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 t…

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Looking Back, Looking Forward: 4 Years of Bean to Barstool 26:43

9M ago26:43

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Bean to Barstool celebrated its 4th birthday in August, and today host David Nilsen looks back at the initial idea behind the site and podcast, what's changed over the years, and what the plans are for continuing to grow Bean to Barstool. Thanks to everyone who has listened so far. We're looking forward to what's ahead! Check out David's book Pairi…

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Bonus: How To Pair Standard-Strength Porters and Stouts with Craft Chocolate 9:20

9M ago9:20

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Standard-strength Porter and Stout styles such as American Porter, English Porter, Oatmeal Stout, Milk Stout, Irish Stout, and some American Stouts feature roasty flavors and aromas from the presence of roasted malts. These grains are roasted similar to how coffee beans and cacao beans get roasted, and take on many of the same flavor notes—coffee a…

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Bonus: Pairing Fruited Sour Ales with Craft Chocolate 10:42

9M ago10:42

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Sour ales are a fantastic platform for fruit flavors. The acidity of the base beers dovetails with the brightness of the fruit and can help sell the flavors of the fruit more authentically. There are challenges to pairing these beers though, and most of them are related to variability of the beers themselves: there are so many different ways to mak…

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Bite Sized: Brian Simpson of Riverbend Malt 5:55

10M ago5:55

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Hey, everyone. 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 Brian Simpson of Riverbend Malt in Asheville, North Carolina. I spoke with Brian all the way back in 2020 for this podcast, but we met up recently for a beer when he was passi…

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Coffee, Chocolate, & Beer in Panama with Franz Zeimetz of Lost Origin Coffee Lab & Casa Bruja and Jaime Pérez of Bocao 58:49

10M ago58:49

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In this episode we talk with Franz Zeimetz of Lost Origin Coffee Lab and Casa Bruja brewery and Jaime Pérez of Bocao chocolate, all from Panama. We discuss the state of craft chocolate, craft beer, and coffee in Panama, and a series of experiments and collaborations they've pursued between these three worlds. Franz has used raw cacao fruit from Jai…

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Bite Sized: Hi-Wire Brewing 10W-40 5:54

10M ago5:54

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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 Hank Marshall and Peter Batinski at Hi-Wire Brewing in Asheville, North Carolina. Hi-Wire brews an Imperial Stout line called 10W-40, made with French Broad Chocolate cacao, Dynamite coffee,…

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Pairing Spirits and Chocolate with Shay Pal 37:53

10M ago37:53

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While I mostly pair craft chocolate with craft beer here at Bean to Barstool, there's a world of great beverages out there for pairing with great chocolate. My good friend Shay Pal seems to have paired bars with most of them through her adventurous tasting and traveling. In this episode, Shay and I discuss how she approaches pairing with craft choc…

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Bonus: How To Pair IPAs with Craft Chocolate 14:30

11M ago14:30

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IPAs are the most popular family of beer styles in craft beer today, they aren't the first beers most people think of for pairing with craft chocolate. While IPAs can pair beautifully with craft chocolate, it’s not an effortless pairing. IPAs present challenges that can lead to chocolate pairings with harsh, bitter, astringent, and/or clashing flav…

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Judging, Pairing, and the Definition of Craft with Clay Gordon 1:20:44

11M ago1:20:44

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There might not be a more loaded term in beer and chocolate than “craft.” What does it mean, who gets to use it, and who gets to decide who does or doesn’t fall under its umbrella? Is craft about size and ownership? Is it about processes and ingredients? Is it some other ineffable quality? There is no perfect answer, and the parameters and stakes a…

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Moksa Brewing's Pastry Stouts with Head Brewer Cory Meyer 30:54

11M ago30:54

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Moksa Brewing in Rocklin, California (just outside Sacramento), is one of the country's most prolific and best producers of Pastry Stouts. These usually high alcohol and high gravity Stouts use ingredients like cacao, coffee, vanilla, and others to recreate the flavors of beloved desserts or create whole new flavor concepts. Moksa's Pastry Stouts a…

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How to Host a Beer and Chocolate Pairing! 30:06

1y ago30:06

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My new book Pairing Beer & Chocolate: A Guide to Bringing the Flavors of Craft Beer and Craft Chocolate Together is out now, and you can get it from Bean to Barstool or Amazon! In honor of the release, we’re talking today about how to host a beer and chocolate pairing at home. How do you plan it, how do you guide the event itself, and how do you gi…

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Bonus: Beer Tarot for World Tarot Day with Courtney Iseman 9:49

1y ago9:49

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Saturday, May 25, is World Tarot Day, and this is the perfect time to learn more about what beer and Tarot have in common. Beer writer Courtney Iseman's zine Beer Tarot: Pulling Cards, Pouring Beer, and Discovering Self is a fantastic way to learn more about both, whether you're a beer fan who's curious about Tarot or vice versa. Listen to this qui…

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The Wonder of One Cacao Tree with Raven Hanna 46:18

1y ago46:18

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Raven Hanna lives on the big island of Hawai'i, and her backyard is a picture of what most of us see when we hear the phrase tropical paradise. She has a PhD in molecular biophysics and biochemistry, and she loves science, but she also loves her senses, and the opportunity to immerse herself in the natural world. Her book One Cacao Tree: Backyard C…

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Bonus: All About Beer Fermentation 7:27

1y ago7:27

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Beer is fermented (usually) by one of two closely related species of yeast. In this quick bonus episode, we look at what how beer fermentation works, the differences between ale and lager, and how yeast and fermentation impact beer flavor. Enjoy this quick primer on beer fermentation! Check out David's book Pairing Beer & Chocolate: A Guide to Brin…

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