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ISSUE FOUR 2015 EDITION user handbook 02 Eats 06 Cocktails 07 Spirits 10 wine 13 Soda & 14 Ales & 21 Cider Coffee Lagers house-made authentically artisan our favorite our own a killer from the from scratch crafted distilled grapes house-made line-up orchard | A worthy destination. | Welcome to Liberty Craft House. A worthy destination inspired by our passion for knowledge, skill, and small-batch artisan goods. Liberty is a humble neighborhood joint with design cues from the industrial revolution that provides a comfortable post for a few drinks, food and good-times. | What is a “craft house” you ask? | At Liberty, we strive to prepare and present you with drink and foodstuff that is properly cared for and skillfully prepared. We’ve considered each and every detail in the products we create and present. Beginning with the producer, we consider how they make their products and, of course, their quality. We love local, natural, sustainable and organic so much we not only practice this ourselves, but seek out and purchase from those who are like-minded as well. Next, we choose and implement equipment that is used to correctly store and authentically prepare the food, beer, wine, soda, coffee and classic cocktails on our menu. Finally, the keys in our logo represent our constant thirst for knowledge, techniques and our fondness of the stories and history behind food, spirits, wine, ales and lagers. We’re constantly educating ourselves on how to prepare and present these artisan made plates and drinks to you. Get social! Tag your pics and interact with us on the interwebs. LibertyCraftHouse.com @EatDantes LibertyCraftHouse LibertyCraftHouse 02 Eats Ales and Lagers | Fromage | Beer is our muse and we love her dearly. 32 drafts and 3 hand-pumped cask ales back up a bottle list of over 200 selections that is managed by Dante’s Cicerone® and Micromatic® trained Beer Director J.P. Mills. Every brew is happily served by our Cicerone® trained Baby Faced (fresh, unaged) beer staff. Drafts and bottles are served in the correct glass at the correct temperature just as they FRESH MOZZARELLA | Grande | Wisconsin | Cow | Mild & Milky are meant to be. Bottles are stored according to style in three independent beer coolers each set at BURATTA | Murray’s | New Jersey | Cow | Creamy & Fresh the proper temperature setting for the styles it contains. Each faucet of draft beer is poured at the proper temperature and gas blend for the style of beer that is tapped. No need to put your hands CHÈVRE | Vermont Creamery | Vermont | Goat | Mild & Smooth on the glass to warm up your stout or barleywine here, we pay attention to detail and present each beer as the brewer intended. Vixens (rich, decadent) A large cellar-temperature controlled aging cave has been managed by our Beer Director since HARBISON | Cellars at Jasper Hill | Vermont | Cow | Forest-y & Floral 2009 with a large number of bottles and kegs just waiting to reach their peak and see the light of SET WEICHEN GEHL | Goot Essa | Pennsylvania | Cow | Buttery Camembert Style day. Look for these selections on our vintage section of the menu or at special tasting events. BONNE BOUCHE | Vermont Creamery | Vermont | Goat | Mushroomy & Buttery Spirits Mountain Men (bold, alpine) Although we stock many spirits and liqueurs representing every category, we specialize in American Whiskey and Tequila. Our shelves are packed with heavy-hitters and many rare selections. COMTÉ | Franche-Comté Region | France | Cow | Swiss & Nutty Artisan and small-batch is how we like to roll, so don’t come looking for artificially flavored vodkas CHOCOLATE STOUT CHEDDAR | Rogue Creamery | Oregon | Cow | R ich & Buttery here, it’s just not our thing. SMOKED ALPEN KASE | Goot Essa | Pennsylvania | Cow | Smoky & Nutty Crafted Cocktails Pierced Punks (Intense, blue) Authentic craft cocktails is our game and we love to play. Using small-batch ingredients, each BLU DI BUFALA | Point Reyes | Italy | Buffalo | Buttery & Punchy Bluing recipe is carefully followed to reproduce the classics implementing the proper tools, ingredients, DER EDEL BLEU KASE | Goot Essa | Pennsylvania | Cow | Buttery & Bright glasses and garnishes required to create each one. Fresh juices are used in each and every drink, nothing “out of the gun” here. Our adventurous staff is constantly tinkering around with new ingredients, recipes and preparation techniques in search of new takes on the classics. We usually Rock Stars (rare, revered have a few barrel aged versions and other experiments the shelves. Yes, we have 4 different types of GORWYDD CAREPHILLY | Trethowan family | Wales | Cow | Earthy & rich ice. Yes, we know we’re nuts. Wise Guys (Old School, Hard) Wine PECORINO ROMANO | Italy | Sheep | Salty & Rugged With around 10 selections by the glass and about 75 by the bottle our wine list demands a little respect. Our list is managed by our Dante’s Court of Master Sommeliers@ trained wine director IRISH CHEDDAR | Ireland | Cow | Moderately Sharp, Unusually Sweet & Fruity Jennifer Zangrilli. 6 faucets pour a continually rotating selection of 3 red and 3 white selections. Each one is stored and poured at the appropriate serving temperature according to style. Kegs are dispensed through an airtight system using nitrogen to preserve the wine in the keg. Our ever changing by-the-glass menu not only features draft wines but tastes from more expensive bottles made possible by our unique cuvenee system that allows us to pour from the bottle without removing the cork and replacing the juice with argon gas preserving the wine in the bottle. On-site mongers Craft Kitchen Have a cheesy question? Lunch, dinner, or a little snack in-between,,, we’ve got you covered. Every dish 100% made No problem! in-house from scratch, that’s how we roll. A seasonally inspired menu looks to what is current and fresh. We’ve chosen every ingredient from small-batch and artisan producers just as we do at the bar. We have two Murray’s Cheese U Liberty celebrates artisan fromage and charcuterie with a rotating selection chosen by our trained Cheese Mongers here to two Murry’s Cheese U® educated cheese mongers Jennifer Zangrilli and J.P. Mills. Our cured meats are assist you with all your cut using a manually-operated hand-spun Italian flywheel slicer to ensure precise cuts and quality textures. fromage curiosities. You’ll find many small plates designed to share with friends including flatbreads baked in our innovative ovens that reach a temperature 842˚f. Soups made fresh and Sandwiches that are built and held together with bread that’s fresh-baked every morning in our very own bakery. Our salads reflect the seasonality harvest from our local greenhouses and fields with dressings made in-house. Savory dishes and gastropub favorites such as casseroles, stews, and other hearty entrees are sure to fill your tummy. 03 Eats | Charcuterie | cured PROSCIUTTO DI SAN DANIELE | Italy | Pork | Mild & Delicate One Bad-Ass Draft System BRESAOLA | Beillese | Italy | Beef | Subtly Sweet & Floral Our 47 tap draft system has been intricately designed to pour ale, lager, wine, soda, SPECK | Recla | Italy | Pork | Smoky & Flavorful coffee, and cocktails correctly (yes, we can and do pour mixed cocktails and coffee from a faucet). Each draft is represented and displayed on a series of 3 high-definition screens above the bar Salami that lists information on what’s currently tapped, including a live image of each keg and an WILD BOAR | Creminelli | Salt Lake City | Wild Boar & Pork Belly | Sweet & Tender indicator of the level of liquid that’s remaining inside. MORTADELLA | Italy | Pork | Peppery & Garlic Hand-Pumped Cask Ale Our 3 faucet beer engine is tuned to pour the proper pint of ale just as it was in the Cooked late-1600s. Every glass is hand-pumped from casks that are stored directly below in a HONEY HAM | Hog’s Galore | Phillipsburg, PA | Pork | Mild Honey & Natural cellar-temperature controlled cooler that is dedicated to properly preserve the ale. Each cask is hand-tapped with a wooden mallet and a cask-breather system is employed to float a gentle Sausage pillow of nitrogen on the surface of the ale to prevent oxygen from changing its flavor CHICKEN APPLE | Brooklyn Sausage | New York | Chicken | Fresh & Fruity throughout the service of the cask. DUCK & ARMAGNAC | Dartagnan | New Jersey | Duck | Hearty & Juicy Draft Ales and Lagers 32 faucets boast a continually rotating line-up of craft and specialty import ales and Paté lagers. Our keg room is proudly equipped with one of the most inventive and TRUFFLE MOUSSE | Frabrique Delices | California | Chicken | Smooth & Earthy progressive set-ups anywhere in the world. Each draft line can be custom tuned to pour each beer style independently at the proper temperature and gas blend from the one next to it. Finally, RABBIT PATE | Frabrique Delices | California | Rabbit | Earthy & Rich A line flushing and cleaning system is installed to clean each and every line every time before VENISON PATE | Frabrique Delices | California | Venison | Gamy & Mild a new keg is tapped ensuring no flavors from the previous keg are left in the line. Draft Wine 6 faucets pour a continually rotating selection of 3 red and 3 white selections. Each one stored and poured at the appropriate serving temperature according to style. Kegs are dispensed | Slates | through an airtight system using nitrogen to preserve the wine in the keg. 3 CHEESE | 12- 5 CHEESE | 15- 7 CHEESE | 17- Draft Cocktails your choice of selections from our fromage list 3 faucets pour a continually rotating line up of cocktails that we mix in large batches and keg. If we choose, we even have the ability to carbonate our cocktails 3 MEAT | 14- 5 MEAT | 17- 7 MEAT | 19- providing them with a unique flavor and texture experience that you can’t get form your choice of selections from our charcuterie list pouring straight out of a bottle.