French Broad Chocolates & Burial Beer Bonbons (Ep. 23)

What could be better for Father Day’s than bean to bar chocolate bonbon bars made with amazing craft beer? French Broad Chocolates in Asheville, North Carolina, has once again partnered with Asheville’s Burial Beer on a series of four “bean to bonbon” bars, and they’re as complex, elegant, and indulgent as the beers they’re made with.

In today’s episode we talk about and taste through French Broad’s bonbon bars made with beers from Burial Beer. The bonbon bars discussed include:

French Broad IPA Caramel, Nougat, & Peanut bonbon bar made with Burial Rationality Shall Run Its Course IPA.

French Broad Fig & Almond Stout with Coconut and Almond bonbon made with Burial Faint Glimmer of Hope Notwithstanding Imperial Stout.

French Broad Imperial Stout with Caramel and Peanut made with a Burial Imperial Stout.

French Broad Coffee Porter & Hazelnut Crunch bonbon bars with Burial Metallic Vessels Black Lager with coffee from Onyx Coffee Lab.

To hear from Jael Skeffington from French Broad Chocolates and Jess Reiser from Burial Beer all about their creative relationship, listen to Episode 03. 

To listen to Jael, Jess, and others discuss the similarities and differences between beer and chocolate descriptive language and what they can learn from each other, listen to Episode 02.

The hear from Onyx Coffee Lab, the roaster whose coffee shows up in Burial’s beers, listen to Episode 13.

To read my extensive article for Good Beer Hunting about the use of ethically-sourced cacao in craft beer, click here.

To learn about the difference between ales and lagers, click here.

The music for this episode was sampled from an instrumental version of the song “Walls” written and performed by indie folk musician Anna ps from her 2016 album of the same name. You can find out more about Anna at her website.