About this episode

Nick Tedeschi discusses brewing flavorful low-ABV beers that complement great food and evoke memories.

For Nick Tedeschi, a great beer evokes memories, and the beer lineup at any of the Post’s five Colorado locations is designed to feel familiar, whether you’ve ordered one there or not. Like the food and the environment, the intention is comfort, with beers designed to tuck into the experience rather than define it. But that doesn’t mean they can’t stand out on their own, and the World Beer Cup and Great American Beer Festival medals they’ve won—for dry stout, amber lager, cream ale, and malt liquor—speak to just how impactful these beers can be when made with care and intention. In this episode, Tedeschi discusses: medal-winning malt liquor with robust but refined flavor and low finishing gravity using the Andechs strain for expression and personality brewing single-infusion lagers with character consistently executing on fundamentals tweaking amber lager with locally produced Munich malt unexpected food-and-beer pairings selling beer through the food brewing 3.3 percent ABV beer with body and fullness using newer American hops with Noble-like qualities, such as Adeena And more. This episode is brought to you by: G&D Chillers A quick word for the brewers out there staring…

People in this episode

Guest: Nick Tedeschi

Topics covered

• low-ABV beers
• beer and food pairings
• brewing techniques
• medal-winning beers
• comfort in beer
• Colorado breweries

Keywords

• low-ABV
• beer
• food pairings
• brewing
• Colorado
• medal-winning
• comfort
• lager
• malt liquor

Sponsors

G&D Chillers

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Post

Products: Andechs strain, Munich malt, Adeena

Places: Colorado

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