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 [...]
Started out accidental. I was sipping on a coffee oatmeal stout homebrew when the pizza man cometh. Life’s crazy right now, so not much cooking. We went with an old favorite, chicken, feta, sundried tomato, and garlic from Yankee Pizzeria.
My first instinct was to polish off the stout before digging into dinner. “Coffee stout won’t [...]
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At a somewhat quieter than usual Beer 101 tonight, I had the chance to talk with the chef and tweak the pairings as I went along. I was quite pleased with the results….
Seafood Gumbo with Olde Towne Amber
If you haven’t had gumbo, you haven’t lived. Get some now! This pairing just confirmed my already solidly [...]
Not sure if this officially qualifies as pizza. It has no sauce. You cover the crust with provolone, then add slices of pear, then sprinkle some crumbled gorgonzola, and finally add some nuts. Supposed to be walnuts, but all we had was pecans, and that worked well, too.
If you’ve ever had gorgonzola, you know [...]
Not great steak, just top sirloin on sale at Publix. Wrapped in bacon at the suggestion of my daughter. And I tried to hit medium using a digital thermometer, but it ended up just a smidge below well done. So, whatever. Bacon covers a multitude of sins.
The beer was from a [...]
There is a universal law you cannot escape, no matter how far or fast you run from it: all meat tastes better wrapped in bacon. Plenty of vegetables too. But 100% of meat: chicken, pork, steak, turkey, fish, whatever. Wrap it in bacon and easily pump up the yum.
This was an ad hoc meal with [...]
In recent days I have had Bell’s Expedition Stout and Old Dominion Oak Barrel Stout with chili. These are two very different beers, the first being an Imperial Stout, the second being a regular stout. The flavour profiles of the two beers are radically different, with the Imperial Stout, as expected, being very much richer [...]
The food was fore-ordained. In the course of conversation over the weekend, a friend recommended pot roast with sweet potatoes instead of white potatoes. Said it made the roast sweet. Sounded good to me; when I was buying a few necessities Sunday I picked up a roast, some sweet potatoes, carrots, and a sweet onion [...]
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Uncle Flip takes his turn at Twain’s, for some pub fare and
This past weekend, the family visited one of our favorite local haunts, Diplomat Deli. It is a sandwich shop in Vestavia Hills that also has one of the biggest selections of beer in town. When you enter, immediately facing you is a wall of coolers with nearly every style and brewery available in Birmingham represented. I discovered [...]
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