Judgment Day is a Belgian-style Quadrupel brewed with raisins. It’s pretty well-received by the BeerAdvocate crowd. Lost Abbey seems to be getting mythical status with the BA folks, having no beer rated less than a ‘B’ and many beers at the ‘A+’ level. Whatareyougonnado? Belgian-style beers are exceedingly popular, for good reason. And no doubt Lost Abbey does a good job with them.
I hesitated to post this pairing, because the entree here has a dirty little secret. The sauce uses Velveeta cheese. And Velveeta doesn’t have a great rep with foodies. It’s not exactly a sophisticated cheese… while Lost Abbey certainly brews sophisticated beers. On paper it would seem to be a bit of a mismatch.
But on my tastebuds, it was oh so right. Amazing. Total fluke, too. I got home from work today and decided it was an appropriate time to crack open this expensive beer, which I’d been sitting on for at least a couple months. Only later did I decide to heat up leftovers of the Chicken Wellington. (Cooked the food last night, but never got around to posting on the first pairing, which involved Terrapin India Brown. It was meh.)
Judgment Day and Chicken Wellington were destined for each other. Each one enhanced the other. The food dish, by the way, has a lot more than Velveeta. It involves cooking chicken, dicing it, combing with milk and cream cheese, adding spices like garlic powder, and using the mixture to stuff squares of crescent roll dough. Ingenious. And the sauce made use of cream of celery soup, condensed milk, and Velveeta. All in all a reasonably complex dish, and perfect for a Belgian quadrupel.
Tags: Chicken Wellington, Judgment Day, Lost Abbey Brewing, Velveeta
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