Cheese and barleywine
This is part two of a linked two part article looking at pairing barleywine and cheese. The first part looked at it from the barleywine perspective, this part looks at the cheese perspective.
Borough Market Quicke’s Cheddar
A full, rich traditional Cheddar aged for a minimum of 18 months bound in linen and covered in [...]
Barleywine and Cheese
This is part one of a linked two part article looking at pairing barleywine and cheese. The second part will look at the flip side, pairing cheese with barleywine.
Mikkeller Big/Worse
A Danish barleywine.
Flavour is sweet and fruity, making this a very easy to drink beer. It does not play very well with the cheese [...]
An odd pairing, you might think: barleywines are hugely complex beers, with powerful hops and massive malts. Supreme pizza is the kitchen sink pizza: it has a bit of everthing, olives, sausage meat, pepperoni, onions, etc.
With a big, assertive beer like this, paired with a pizza with so many different flavours going on, you would [...]
This was a bit of a shot in the dark. But not too risky as I’ve found hoppy beers to be generally easier to pair than malty beers. I can’t explain why that is, but it just seems that malty beers are more likely to produce harsh flavors on your tongue when improperly paired. Exceptions [...]
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