Beer and food pairing by Neil Miller

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Permalink Reply by MrC on October 17, 2008 at 12:38pm

Interesting. I might try some dark chocolate with a pint of porter tonight.

I'm quite partial to a hoppy American Wheat Beer with my F&Cs (although it does kill the head pretty quickly).

Anyone else have any favourite beer & food combo's?

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Permalink Reply by Stu McKinlay on October 17, 2008 at 2:15pm

A good porter or stout, via beer engine (or poor man's beer engine), with a nice camembert and a fresh baguette.

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Permalink Reply by Kempicus on October 17, 2008 at 12:43pm

None at all for me beer and food are mutually exclusive i drink what i feel like drinking and eat what i feel like eating although i find that pork scratchings go with everything!
Pork Scratchings are definitely the new black!

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Permalink Reply by Alasdair on October 17, 2008 at 1:43pm

Robust porter and prosciutto are a great match. The beer cuts through the salt and really brings out the flavour.

If anyone's interested in matching food and beer, I highly recommend Garrett Oliver's book "The Brewmaster's Table".

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Permalink Reply by Jaysen Magan on September 14, 2009 at 8:18pm

guys, since you are talking about beer and food matching, DineOut (www.dineout.co.nz) is currently running a poll on:

What's your preference with dinner? The choice of answers is Beer, Wine, Spirits, Fizz, water.

We all know Beer is the clear winner so make sure you enter your vote.

p.s.s.s The Brew Master's Table is a good book, we have it on the bookshelf, although it has been a bit dusty since we started making beer.

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Permalink Reply by Tony on September 15, 2009 at 8:56pm

What an absolutely wonderful article. So good to see beer portrayed in a positive light, compared with food and restaurants. Well done Neil. What a breath of fresh air.

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Permalink Reply by Denise Garland on September 16, 2009 at 12:55pm

Except the article was written last year after last year's Beervana, and Martin Bosley had not 'ripped out his beer selection and replaced them with regional beers of various styles' the last I heard.
I have heard from several people that there is still very little on Martin Bosley's menu to attract beer drinkers, despite his comments after Beervana 2008.
Sad really, because we all know beer is far better paired with food than wine is.

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Permalink Reply by Jaysen Magan on September 17, 2009 at 2:59pm

hi Densie, i agree with you but the DIneout Poll doesn't . . . .right now it is 20% beer to 60% wine . . . . . . .

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Permalink Reply by Steph on September 25, 2009 at 11:09pm

And, fair point by Denise...NO beer list last time I went to Bosley's

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Permalink Reply by colin m on October 3, 2009 at 11:55pm

http://martin-bosley.com/menus/beer-list.htm this is what is currently advertised

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Permalink Reply by Steve Nally on November 26, 2009 at 9:10pm

I've seen worse

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