25 Delectable Beer and Food Partnerships
(listed in no particular order)
1. Victory Storm King Imperial Stout and osetra caviar
2. Rochefort 8 and flourless chocolate cake
3. Westmalle Tripel and white asparagus
4. Rosé de Gambrinus and salad greens dressed with raspberry vinaigrette
5. Fuller’s ESB and medium-rare roast beef
6. Rogue Hazelnut Brown Ale and a peanut butter and jam sandwich
7. Brasserie à Vapeur Cochonette and sautéed foie gras
8. Gaffel Kölsch and thin crust potato pizza
9. Allagash White Beer and a cheese omelette
10. Brooklyn East India Pale Ale and spicy vegetarian chili
11. Young’s Old Nick Barley Wine and apple pie with aged white cheddar
12. Anderson Valley Barney Flats Oatmeal Stout and Brie de Meaux
13. Jever Pilsner and crawfish étouffée
14. Live Oak Pilz and fried chicken
15. Einbecker Urbock Dunkel and Hungarian goulash
16. Timothy Taylor Landlord Bitter (cask-conditioned) and fish and chips
17. Éphémère Pomme and barbecue pork ribs with tomato-based sauce
18. Buckeye Brewing Vanilla Bean Porter and a “BLT” sandwich of bittersweet chocolate spicy mayonnaise, lobster moussiline and truffled cheese on baguette (with thanks to Adam Glickman of Monk’s Café, Philadelphia, who dreamt this up for a beer dinner I hosted there in 2003)
19. Alaskan Amber Ale and Alaskan king crab legs
20. Orval and medium-rare tournedo de cheval (that’s horse steak for all you Anglophones)
21. Porterhouse Oyster Stout and Galway Flat oysters
22. New Glarus Wisconsin Belgian Red and cherry cheesecake
23. Stone Double Bastard Ale and rum balls
24. Paulaner Salvator and roasted cashews
25. Vintage Courage Imperial Russian Stout and raw milk stilton
—Stephen Beaumont
