Continuing my theme of “darker British beers go well with red meat”, I paired Three Floyds Robert the Bruce Ale with beef pot roast.
Three Floyds are one of the best known brewpubs, famed in the beer world for their Dark Lord Imperial Stout. Robert the Bruce is their Scottish style ale, broadly similar to a [...]

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Hooray for Whole Foods.
Around 2pm today I received an email from the wife informing me she’d been to Whole Foods to pick up some essentials and also bought a prepared meal: cajun turkey, sweet potatoes, green beans, and (mixed greens with balsamic vinaigrette) salad.  Nice.
I gave it a little thought and decided to run with [...]

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Doug on January 15th, 2009

Mmmmm… I’ll bet that title just made your mouth water.  Deciding to forego beer with dinner (shocking, I know), I broke out a tripel homebrewed with a jaggery sugar to pair with a low-fat key lime pie that my wife whipped up.  The pie used a fair amount of actual lime juice, so despite the warning that [...]

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