Revisiting The Road Trip: New Holland With Paul Kahan

By Marcus Gilmer in Food on Jun 22, 2009 3:20PM

Another shot of Paul Kahan measuring out Pilsner malt for the biere de garde.

New Holland Brewmaster John Haggerty stirs the mash with a boat oar at the brewpub.

New Holland pub brewer Jeff Sheahan readies some malt for Publican Beer Director Michael McAvena to mill.

Sheahan shows off the malt that was used in the brewing.

Kahan finishes emptying a bag of malt while Sheahan watches.

McAvena and Suzanne Wolcott Smile because Kahan is doing the heavy lifting.

A shot of the malt being milled and sent up via grain elevator to its fate.

$At New Holland\'s brewery, a brewer actually enters the mash tun to shovel out the spent grain. New Holland gives its spent brewers grain from both the brewery and brewpub to a local livestock farm as feed.$

Heaven Hill casks in storage at the brewery for aging beer

On brewing day, the mash enters the whirlpool for the final separation of solids before being sent to the conditioning tanks.

$The grain silo at New Holland\'s brewery$ $Beginning the walk to the farm dinner on NEw Holland Partner/\"Beervangelist\" Fred Bueltmann\'s farm in Fennville, MI.$ $The beer menu at New Holland\'s brewpub.$ $Bueltmann\'s neighbor, Doug Welsch from Fenn Valley Winery, and company show up by tractor and trailer to the farm dinner.$ $Chef Matt Millar\'s roasted chicken, brined in Mad Hatter ale, from the Tuesday night dinner.$

Asparagus from the Tuesday night dinner.

Sheahan and Haggerty during the Tuesday night dinner at the brewpub.

$Kahan\'s pork pies and head cheese with spicy mustard, part of his contributions to the farm dinner$ $The bottle processing operating board at New Holland\'s brewery, with German instructions. Haggerty never found out what the red light on the left, fifth row down, is supposed to indicate. \"Sometimes it just lights up, and it doesn\'t affect anything,\" he said. So he taped \"TILT!. Prize When Lit\" around the light.$

An amazing array of charcuterie, cheeses and quiche at the farm dinner.

A few weeks ago, our Chuck Sudo went on a road trip to Holland, Michigan with Publican mastermind Paul Kahan to get a behind-the-scenes look at the pairing between Kahan and New Holland Brewing for their special beer dinner in August. It was an excellent series and we were worried about it getting lost in the shuffle so we've gathered up all the links here. If you haven't gotten a chance to read through it, we highly recommend you bookmark this post so you can come back and read each part at your leisure. Above are new pictures from Chuck that we didn't run the first time around on these posts, so enjoy those as well.

Part 1: Menu Planning Session
Part 2: The Brewing Day
Part 3: The Farm Dinner
Part 4: New Holland Profile
Part 5: Paul Kahan Profile

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