About Chef Sean Z. Paxton

 

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. 

 

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.

 

Sean has written for 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, The New Brewer, Wine Enthusiast, Food & Wine, Esquire, Mutineer Magazine, Draft, Plate, Saveur Magazine, 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 offers scalable recipes using beer as an ingredient.

 

As a chef who is inspired by beer, Chef Sean started brewing his own beer and worked from home brewing to brewing professionally with multiple breweries across the US and internationally. With flavor as a core, Sean has brewed over 38 different beer collaborations with breweries ranging from Firestone Walker, Allagash Brewing Co., 10 Barrel Brewing Co., Anderson Valley Brewing Co., Bend Brewing Co., Ninkasi Brewing Co., Schmaltz | Coney Island BrewingSpeakeasy Brewing, Magnolia Brewing Co., Sacramento Brewing Company, Odonata Beer Co., and 21st Amendment Brewery & Restaurant. Sean has also worked with Dogfish Head Brewery on a special LP | beer collaboration, sharing his recipe for Positive Contact, on the Deltron 3030  Album cover shared with other chefs Mario Batalli, David Chang, Joe Beef, and James Syhabout. Internationally, Sean has brewed with Cervejaria Wäls (Belo Horizonte, Brazil), Falke (Belo Horizonte, Brazil), Cervesa Kross (Santiago, Chile), Amazon Beer Company (Belém, Brazil), De Struise Brouwer’s (Belgium) just to name a few.

 

The movie | documentary “Beers of Joy” features Sean Z. Paxton as a character and producer, highlighting his journey back in time, re-creating a historical beer dinner set in 1620 at Plimoth Plantation.  This beer documentary is distributed by Gravitas Ventures and has won several awards including Festigious International Film Festival 2019 | Winner – Best Documentary Feature, Florence Film Awards 2019 | Winner – Honorable Mention: Story, IndieFEST Film Awards 2019 | Award Of Excellence – Documentary Feature, Los Angeles Film Awards 2019 | Winner Best Documentary Feature, New York Film Awards 2019 | Winner – Best Feature Documentary and Accolade Competition | Winner Award of Excellence – Documentary Feature. Watch the trailer for Beers of Joy here. Paxton has also been featured on CBS Eye on the Bay, hosting a beer dinner, too being a guest on multiple podcasts, KQED – The Forum, other radio channels, and videos.

 

Chef Sean shares his love for Beer Cuisine with others through teaching “cooking with beer” classes at the Le Cordon Bleu cooking school (Portland, OR), Culinary Institute of America, 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, where he worked with different breweries, local farms, and crafts unique flavored sauces for sale. Eat Beer Hot Sauce won a Second Place Scoville Award Most Unique Hot Sauce for Yellow Thai Racer and was listed as a Top 35 on Bill Moore’s Hot Sauce Review for 2018 for Sean has been involved in the Homebrew arena as an active board member of the Northern California Homebrew Organization for 21 years. He has presented several workshops at the AHA National Homebrew Conferences and has 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. Sean has also shared the stage, presented in Buenos Aires, Argentina, at the South Beer Cup III on “Exploring International Cuisines: Cooking with Beer”, Great American Beer Festival, and other food festivals. 

All the images found on www.homebrewchef.com are all taken by Sean Z. Paxton as well. Besides being a chef, Sean has a huge interest in photography, both in food photography and landscape photography. He has won some various awards.

 

Cookbooks Featuring Chef Sean Z. Paxton Recipes:

 

For more videos of Home Brew Chef Sean Z. Paxton, check out the Video Page or his Youtube Channel.

Chef Sean Z. Paxton is available for hire, as a Restaurant Consultant, Restaurant & Kitchen Design, Private Catering, Brewing | Cooking R&D, Menu Consulting, Beer Pairing, and Food | Beer Writing.

If you have questions about Home Brew Chef please direct your questions to sean@homebrewchef.com.

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