GrowNYC Grains is a Program of GrowNYC
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In this Issue
Upcoming market dates
Brewers Choice 2019
Interview with Jason Sahler (Strong Rope Brewery)
Recipe of the month
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Upcoming Market Dates
Come find locally grown grains at the following locations!
Grainstand Weekly Markets
every
Wednesday & Saturday.
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July & August Pop-up Markets
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We will be dropping all pop-ups for July and August except for those at GrowNYC's Inwood and Grand Army Plaza Greenmarkets. We will resume a normal schedule in September.
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- July 13: Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn
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- August 3: Inwood, Manhattan
- August 10: Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn
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Pre-ordered bulk bags are available at GrowNYC's Union Square Greenmarket every Wednesday and Saturday, and at any of our pop-up location upon request.
Check availability and pricing here
.
Wholesale orders of $250 or more can be delivered through
Greenmarket Co.
, GrowNYC's wholesale distribution program.
For more information or to place an order, email us at
grains@grownyc.org.
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Kneading Conference
July 25-26, (Thurs-Fri)
Skowhegan State Fairgrounds
Skowhegan, Maine
Each year farmers, millers, bakers, maltsters, researchers, and grain enthusiasts gather from around the world for two days of intensive baking workshops, wood-fired oven building workshops, and discussions about grain growing and running grain businesses. Attendees choose from hands-on workshops, live demonstrations, lectures, panel discussions, and more.
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Brewer's Choice & Slow Grains NYC
July 17, (Wed) 6:00pm- 9:30pm
Biba of Williamsburg
110 Kent Avenue. Brooklyn, NY
In partnership with Slow Grains (a project of Slow Food NYC), the 9th annual NYC Brewer's Choice will show everything our beloved regional grains have to offer!
Come learn from the pioneering folks working on the Northeast local grain movement – we’ll share what we’ve learned, discuss grains varieties growing in our region, their important role in the building of a sustainable food system, and the infrastructure and distribution challenges involved in these efforts.
The Slow Grains panel discussion will precede the awesome Brewer's Choice event, where 20 small batch brewers from North Carolina to New York to Maine will gather to celebrate local grains and malts.
This is an all-inclusive event with beer tastings and food.
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Spotlight: Strong Rope Brewery
In honor of NYC Brewer's Choice this month, we sat down with Jason Sahler, owner and head brewer of Strong Rope Brewery in Gowanus to talk beer, local grains, and what it's like to be a brewery that is the first of it's kind.
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Jason Sahler began as a home brewer, using commodity malts. In 2013, he decided he wanted to be more in tune with the development of local grains and the burgeoning Craft Beverage industry in New York State. Although Strong Rope predominantly works with two row barley, they also use wheat, oats, and rye as flavor additives, making some of the most interesting and flavorful beer in NYC. Jason is proud to "use 100% New York ingredients for all of our beers."
The beginning was all trial and error, Jason says: "The
farmers were growing barley varietals that were best suited for animal feed not necessarily for malting. It was all a new thing… the quality was a little all over the place. Sometimes good sometimes troublesome.” In the last few years a lot of that uncertainty has evened out. Mark Sorrells and his team at Cornell University have worked diligently with farmers to identify good malting barley varieties that can grow well in New York. Strong Rope's success is also due in large part to the conversations that Jason has with the maltsters he works with. Sahler will communicate which malts are performing well, and the maltsters will zero in on that variety with the farmers, creating a closed loop system that allows the growers and maltsters to produce malted grain that will perform at peak capacity for the brewer.
Of course, being the first brewery of its kind means that Strong Rope had to be adaptive, but also that they can now be a resource for newer breweries using local grain and malt. Sahler advises those brewers to "be willing to experiment. It’s going to be different. It might not be the same thing you’re used to. Take the time and effort to figure it out. We’re small enough that we’re willing to be experimental. Talk to your malt houses and talk to your grain farmers. Get out there and be a part of the industry.”
Catch Strong Rope Brewery in Williamsburg at the Brewer's Choice event July 17, and occasionally at our Beer and Spirits Pop-up!
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Recipe of the month-
Cannellini Bean Puree
Cannellini are our favorite summer beans. They are versatile, light, buttery, and delicious. This puree is perfect on a baguette at a summer picnic.
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Ingredients
- *1 cup dried white beans, soaked for six hours or overnight in one quart water
- *1 medium onion, cut in half
- *3 garlic cloves, cut in half
- 1 bay leaf
- Salt, preferably kosher salt, to taste
- 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice
- Freshly ground white pepper to taste
- *1 tablespoon chopped fresh sage, rosemary, or parsley
*Ingredients available at your local Greenmarket (anywhere the Grainstand is present)
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- Drain the beans and transfer to a large, heavy saucepan. Add the onion, two of the garlic cloves, the bay leaf and a quart water and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat, cover and simmer one hour. Add salt to taste, and continue to simmer for another 30 minutes to an hour, until the beans are thoroughly tender. Drain through a strainer set over a bowl, then discard the onion and bay leaf.
- Puree the remaining garlic clove with 1/4 teaspoon of salt.
- Puree the white beans with the mashed garlic in a food processor fitted with the steel blade. With the machine running, add 2 tablespoons of the bean broth, 2 tablespoons of the olive oil, salt to taste and the lemon juice. Taste and adjust the salt. Add more of the bean broth for a creamier consistency; the mixture should be like moist hummus. Sprinkle with herbs.
- Enjoy!
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Recipe adapted from The New York Times
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