Oh yeah. Sometimes it just works.
The 1888 Bock is actually Leinie’s spring seasonal. What are the others, you ask? Summer Shandy in… the summer, Oktoberfest in the fall, and Fireside Nut Brown in the winter. I really like their Oktoberfest, the Summer Shandy is simply not a style I’m interested in, and frankly, the Fireside [...]
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Leftovers. And this stuff was appreciably better fresh. Sigh.
The beer:
Monk’s Cafe is a relatively recent entry in the Birmingham market, brought in by the local Budweiser distributor. Which is a good sign. Unfortunately, it’s a bit hard to find. I was talking to the beer buyer at Whole Foods and he informed me he had [...]
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This weekend, my wife and I had our monthly date night where a neighbor with whom we swap babysitting service comes over to watch our kids while we go to dinner and a movie. After being inspired by a review by a local food blogger of a nearby Korean barbeque restaurant, we decided to make [...]
Yes, a repeat of the beer style and food style from last night. It was such a winner, and I was in the mood for pasta.
This is the same homebrew that Doug recently paired. Highly phenolic, fruity and spicy. Close to four years old, but this is a style that ages very well.
The pasta was [...]
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Total accident. I picked a beer before I’d even thought about dinner. And Port Brewing Hop 15 is a very slow sipper. Fifteen different hop varieties every 15 minutes? Holy lupulus, Batman!
So I was still sipping on it as sloppy joes came together. Bleh. Don’t go there.
The sloppy joes were pretty good but need even [...]
Meh. While malty beers generally may go well with red meat, I find stouts very hard to pair outside of the dessert world. They typically go great with stuff like chocolate and cheesecake. But with main courses, not so much. Stout + Philly cheese steak is actually pretty rank. It may be a challenge peculiar [...]
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I wanted a nice light and easy-drinking ale to accompany lunch on this Martin Luther King Day, and Tanner’s Jack fit the bill. I needed something a little on the malty side, although this one’s pretty hoppy by English standards. But the hops are of the earthy/floral English variety, not piney/citrusy American varieties. The flavor [...]
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This is more or less the quintessential Southern meal, no?
Good steak is a relatively rare treat for us, so I carefully weighed my beer options for this. I didn’t want to screw it up. On one hand, on this very website Stuart has been praising the virtues of red meat with malty beer pairings. On [...]
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This review helps to confirm my prejudices – Terrapin make mighty fine beers, and malty beers are just the best at pairing with red meat-based dishes.
Beef crockpot chili with Terrapin IBA is a good, but not outstanding pairing. If you have the beef in your mouth while taking a sip of the IBA, the hops’ [...]
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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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