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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I wasn’t overly psyched about this pairing prior to sitting down for dinner, but when the mood hits for a Belgian Strong Dark Ale, you have to seize it. Actually, it turned out that the aged homebrew was a nice addition to the otherwise simple meal of parmesan crusted chicken breast and spinach and mushroom [...]
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Pulled pork BBQ was one of the delights I discovered after moving to the southern USA. I have been trying to find a good pairing with BBQ, working around the limitations we have in Alabama.
Paulaner Salvator is a very good option. Like all doppelbocks it is rich and malty, with a gentle hop presence to [...]
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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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Look, I didn’t choose overly descriptive name. This recipe came from Robin Miller on Food TV. My wife has been doing Miller’s “Quick Fix Meals” this week, which included the earlier-reviewed beef brisket that has now been turned into a soft taco with garlic avocado cream and roasted asparagus salsa. Really, there is not much [...]
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 [...]
Adobo from the Philippines is made from chicken or pork, marinaded in vinegar and garlic, with cracked black pepper, salt, and bay leaves, served over white rice. The combination produces a very assertive taste that can most easily be described as “pickled chicken”.
For a food this assertive, I turned to the Terrapin Rye Pale Ale. [...]
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In contemplating maillard reactions and their rich contributions to food and beer, it occurred to me that an aging bottle of 80/- homebrew hidden away upstairs would pair beautifully with a beef brisket my wife had prepared with carrots, potatoes, and onions. Sure enough, the true-to-style 80 shilling ale with its extended boil had a nice [...]
This is the flip side of Danner’s recent visit to the J Clyde where he had a Good People Brewing Co. IPA followed by an Olde Towne Amber with his fried green tomato BLT. I also had two beers with a sandwich. My first was the long-anticipated GPBC Coffee Oatmeal Stout. The sandwich: a roast [...]
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I am a fan of Terrapin beers. Their entire range is well worth a try if you have access to them – they are very individualistic, and not afraid to experiment. Their India Brown Ale is a very well executed version of this style: malty, hoppy, with faint coffee mocha overtones.
Sadly… this does not go [...]
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