Beer and Food ?

[pvt_ak]

Hi folks - I’ve recently started to pair food with beer and steer away from wine.

I’ve managed to persuade SWMBO that a good sour is a fab pairing with fish for example.

What’s people’s thoughts on this subject ?

 

[Brewed_Force]

I think a good ESB goes down a treat with a ploughman's lunch.

 

[Dutto]

For me ...

• Mild goes with stews, dumplings and any other heavy duty winter grub
• Lager and Pale Ale both go with curries, chillies, salads and light summer meals
• Bitter goes with BBQ's and any other type of "meat fest"

... and the rest I mainly drink on their own rather than with food.

PS

A mate of mine always reckons that, if he could just find a suitable wine, he would eat a "Full English Breakfast" for every meal of the day!

Personally, I just wish I could find a beer I dared drink at breakfast without getting "the stare" from SWMBO; who apparently thinks that Baileys in her coffee is a perfectly acceptable drink to wash down a Sunday breakfast!

 

[marshbrewer]

Personally, I just wish I could find a beer I dared drink at breakfast without getting "the stare" from SWMBO; who apparently thinks that Baileys in her coffee is a perfectly acceptable drink to wash down a Sunday breakfast!

What about one of them there new fangled murky pale ale thingies that look like orange juice? I'm sure you could slip one of those under the Mrs radar?

 

[Dutto]

What about one of them there new fangled murky pale ale thingies that look like orange juice? I'm sure you could slip one of those under the Mrs radar?

Only if I drank it out of a coffee cup and it didn't smell like beer!

 

[Stephenj]

Coffee stout/porter. No milk please

 

[machin05]

I'm a huge fan of food and beer pairing. Saisons are always a great place to start - the dry funky and spicy flavours go with a whole range of foods, from a sunday roast to a thai green curry.

A couple of other favourite pairings are:

Kriek & a chocolate brownie
American Brown and a chilli
Hoppy wheat beer and a curry
Milk stout and a curry
Imperial Stout and a real stinky blue cheese
Red IPA and pizza
Belgian Quad and Christmas pudding
English old ale with a whole cheese board

I made a beef shin pie the other week and paired it with a Fullers 1845, that was delicious.

My absolute beer and food pairing highlight was a White Burgundy barrel aged blended saison from Time & Tide with Christmas Dinner. Amazing beer:

 

[IainM]

So many great combos. Imperial stout and anything chocolate. English barleywine and cake. Strong blue cheese with double IPA. Wheat beer or sours with anything that compliments the light citrus, like fish, seafood, or which benefits by having fat cut through by a wheat/sour lightness and high carbonation, like cheesecake. Steak'n'stout, mushroom on the side. Bratwurst and Oktoberfest. Meat stew with a quad or dubble. Strong barrel-aged beer with cured meats.

 

[Clint]

Yes,a great subject.
So far I've tried...all HB..
Stout,lager,bitter,cream ale,ESB,cervesa, English IPA, American IPA,dark ale, Christmas ale,pumpkin ale...
With...all home made...
Vindaloo,Madras,jalfrezi,tikka masala..with chicken,lamb,beef or vegetables....plain,tikka or tandoori...
And it's all got something to offer!

 

[Horners]

For me ...

• Mild goes with stews, dumplings and any other heavy duty winter grub
• Lager and Pale Ale both go with curries, chillies, salads and light summer meals
• Bitter goes with BBQ's and any other type of "meat fest"

... and the rest I mainly drink on their own rather than with food.

PS

A mate of mine always reckons that, if he could just find a suitable wine, he would eat a "Full English Breakfast" for every meal of the day!

Personally, I just wish I could find a beer I dared drink at breakfast without getting "the stare" from SWMBO; who apparently thinks that Baileys in her coffee is a perfectly acceptable drink to wash down a Sunday breakfast!

If we are staying at my mum and Dads you routinely get offered a tot of dark rum to go in the mid morning milky coffee much to my wife's curiosity/ despair. When I went away to uni it was a real eye opener that everyone didnt have a mid morning rum. It was all I had ever known

 

[matt76]

Found this while looking for something else:
http://www.camra.org.uk/enjoying-with-food

 

[pvt_ak]

Interesting link !
Had pasta tonight - opted for water though after a very heavy long weekend .

 

[Clint]

OH!DEAR!NOT FEELING FRAGILE,ARE WE?!!!

 

[Gunge]

I'll sup owt with my daily vindaloo, my taste buds and olfactory system are too ravaged and wasted to care, or know what I'm supping anyroad.

 

[Bigcol49]

I'll sup owt with my daily vindaloo.

Hi!
Even Boddingtons?

 

[Clint]

Now that's the gauntlet thrown down at ye Gunge!

 

[Brewed_Force]

When I was last at the Oktoberfect in Munich I did particularly enjoy sitting in the September midday sunshine with half a spit-roasted chicken, washed down with a delicious litre of Spaten brau.

 

[Gunge]

Hi!
Even Boddingtons?

Even Boddingtons... tho' it was given to me.

 

[Clint]

That is very chivalrous!

 

[BarnBrian]

That is very chivalrous!

Chivalry is Gunges middle name.