Historical deep dive courtesy of the Home Brew Chef.
Primarily a self-taught chef, Sean Z. Paxton’s focus has always been to create a quality product. From an early age, he sought to learn various cooking techniques and styles to create dishes from cuisines all over the world. His experience and skill led him to, restaurants and hotels and catering to share his passion for food with others.
Home Brew Chef Sean Z. Paxton putting his talents and tastes on display for one of his signature feasts.
Simultaneously, Sean was inspired by the craft of beer making and brewing techniques. As he became an accomplished home brewer, he took his knowledge of combining food flavors from the kitchen and applied them to his home brewing. With the understanding of both culinary and brewing sciences/ingredients, he realized each craft shares similar parallels that together would bring a depth of flavor to both food and beer not previously explored. Chef Paxton has also engaged in collaboration brews with master brewers nationally and internationally including Belgian and South American brewers creating unique beers, and extending his vision of flavor profiles. Sean is also a judge for the Master Cicerone exam and contributed to the development of the master syllabus.
Living the shred life.
Today, Sean writes for and his recipes featured in many magazines that focus on trends in the beer and food industry. His expertise has been noted in publications such as Beer Advocate, Brew Your Own, Imbibe, Wine Enthusiast, Food & Wine, Esquire, Draft, Plate, and Culinary Trends. His recipes have also been highlighted in twelve cookbooks on craft beer including “The American Craft Beer Cookbook “by John Holl. As the Executive Chef for Home Brew Chef, he collaborates with pub owners and Craft Brewers across the country to host exclusive multi-course beer dinners. Homebrewchef.com is where Sean shares his knowledge and experience of food and beer with the brewing community, through a unique and original online cookbook, that has scalable recipes using beer as an ingredient.
Having Sean Z. Paxton in your film means never having to utter the term craft service.
Sean shares his love for Beer Cuisine with others through teaching "cooking with beer” classes at the Le Cordon Bleu cooking school (Portland, OR), Ramekin Culinary School and Point Reyes Farmstead Cheese Co. “The Fork” in Northern California. He is also the creator and co-host for “The Home Brewed Chef” podcast show on The Brewing Network. Sean has a line of beer infused hot sauces called Eat Beer Hot Sauces, were he works with different breweries, local farms and crafts unique flavored sauces for sale. Sean continues to be involved in the Homebrew arena as an active board member the Northern California Homebrew Organization. He has presented several workshops at the AHA National Homebrew Conferences and has and been Executive Chef for the Grand banquet since 2008 where he has designed and executed a unique beer infused menu both cooked and paired with beer for over 2000 homebrewers’ attending the conference. Sean also executed the World Beer Cup Grand Gala Banquet for the 2010 Awards Ceremony for 2000 brewers from 44 countries, serving 5 courses of custom designed dishes, paired with over 650 gallons of beer.
The table is set with Chef’s culinary and brewing work product.