Head Brewer Ro Guenzel and beer journalist Carolyn Smagalski discuss beer and nut pairings. Guenzel creates beers at Left Hand Brewing like Oktoberfest, 400# Monkey, and Milk Stout. Smagalski is a certified beer judge and founded a beer competition. The document also provides brief histories of pecans, walnuts, and pioneers like Fritz Maytag and Charlie Papazian who helped grow the craft beer industry in the US. It concludes with pairing suggestions and descriptions of Left Hand beers.

1. Beer & Nuts
For Beer Nuts
Carolyn Smagalski
The Beer Fox - BellaOnline
http://beer.bellaonline.com
Ro Guenzel
Head Brewer - Left Hand Brewing Co.
http://www.lefthandbrewing.com/

2. Beer Nut:
Head Brewer Ro Guenzel
• Head Brewer – Left Hand Brewing
Company
• QA/QC & Recipe formulation - Left
Hand Brewing Company
• Creator of Oktoberfest, 400#
Monkey, Fade to Black, Smoked
Goosinator Doppelbock, Polestar
Pilsner, Smokejumper
• Collaboration beers with Terrapin and
Nørrebro Bryghus
• Trained at American Brewers Guild -
2001
• Odell’s and Kaltenberg Castle
Brewery at Schlossbraueri Kaltenberg
in Bavaria before coming to Left Hand

3. Beer Nut:
Beer Fox Carolyn Smagalski
• The Voice of Women BellaOnline
• Certified Beer Judge
• Freelance Beer Journalist
• 2006 Beer Journalism Award in
Electronic Media – Brewers Association
• Co-Founder Philly Beer Geek
Competition
• Advisor: Gluten Free Beer Festival UK

4. Pecan Nuts
From an Algonquin word meaning
“a nut requiring a stone to crack.”

5. Pecan Nuts
• The Pecan is a large
deciduous tree with male
catkins that are pendulous
• The female catkins are
small, with three to six
flowers clustered together.

6. Pecan Nuts
• The Pecan: NOT a true nut
• Technically a drupe: A “fruit”
with a single stone or pit,
surrounded by a husk.
• The nut itself is dark brown,
oval to oblong.
• Outer husk: Starts out green
and turns brown at maturity -
then it splits off in four sections
to release the thin-shelled nut

7. Beer Nut:
Charlie Papazian
• Nuts enough to think he
could have a Beer Festival
in the USA
• Only 22 Breweries with 40
Beers were at that first
Festival in 1982
• Now there are over 2200
beers in the Great Hall with
462+ breweries.
• Nuts?

8. Beer Nuts
• “Not all chemicals are bad. Without
chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for
example, there would be no way to make
water, a vital ingredient in beer.”
Dave Barry

9. Walnuts
• The walnut was so called
because it was introduced from
Gaul and Italy.
• The “Gallic Nut”
• Deciduous Tree – 21 Species
• Two-thirds of the world export
market and 99% of the US
commercial production of
English walnuts is grown in
California's Central Valley and
in Coastal Valleys

10. Walnuts
• The Walnut is not a true nut
– it’s not a fruit either
• Like the Pecan, it is also a
drupe.
• Walnuts grow within an
outer husk

11. Walnuts
Walnut Shells are used as:
• As filler for dynamite
• As “Soft-grit abrasive” for
cleaning and polishing
Automobile and aircraft
engines
• In soap and exfoliating
cleansers
• In the paint and plastics
industry.

12. Beer Nut:
Fritz Maytag
• Nuts enough to buy the Anchor
Steam Brewing Company in
1965 and think he could make
“Hand-crafted Beer “
• By 1983, there were only 51
brewing concerns in the USA
• In 2009, there are now 1,595
craft breweries in the United
States
• Nuts?

13. Beer Nut:
Lee Williams, Trails End Chestnuts
• Trails End Chestnuts
• Planted a grove of Chestnut
Trees in Moses Lake,
Washington as a legacy for
his grandchildren
• Chestnut Beer – Gluten Free
Beer
• http://www.chestnuttrails.com/
• Nuts?

14. Nutty Label Laws?
• The FDA sent Diamond
Walnuts a warning letter
dated February 22, 2010
• Their label said: "OMEGA-3s ...
Every time you munch a few
walnuts, you're doing your body a
big favor.“
• "Studies indicate that the omega-3
fatty acids found in walnuts may
help lower cholesterol…”
• FDA says, “Because of these
intended uses, your walnut products
are drugs within the meaning of
section 201”

15. Nothing like Beer & Nut Pairings
• Sugar Mama Pecans with
400 Pound Monkey
• Amishville Applesauce Nut
Bread with Oktoberfest
• Mountain Stout Oatmeal
Cookies with Left Hand Milk
Stout
• Witch’s Brew Spice Cake
with St. Vrain Tripel

16. Left Hand 400 Pound Monkey
Left Hand 400 Pound Monkey:
• English India Pale Ale
• Bright, beautiful – not
intended to overwhelm
• Well-balanced, fruity,
earthy

17. Left Hand Oktoberfest
Left Hand Oktoberfest:
• Märzen/Oktoberfest
• Malt-dominant, toasted
earthiness, biscuity, Munich
malt character
• Noble Pedigree Hops, spicy
and dry
• Zicke Zacke, Zicke Zacke,
Hoi, Hoi, Hoi!

18. Left Hand Milk Stout
Left Hand Milk Stout:
• Sweet Stout
• Dark roasty malts, rich milk-
chocolate, oat-like
• Viscous, tickles the throat
• Nothing like cookies and milk!

19. Left Hand St. Vrain Tripel
Left Hand St. Vrain Tripel:
• Tripel - 9% ABV
• Biscuity malt, yeasty, aromas
of fresh pineapple, pear and
peach that carry into the
flavor
• Moderate carbonation,
peppery, warming

20. Thank You
"A woman drove me to drink and I didn't
even have the decency to thank her."
W.C. Fields
Thank YOU from -
Ro Guenzel and Carolyn Smagalski