Ideas for Beer / Food Matching

[studio1]

I'm trying to design a 4 course menu that matches a NZ craft beer with each course. The theme for the food is: seafood / game / smoked.

I'm roughly thinking of the following four courses:

1) Bowl of light seafood broth - perhaps Japanese in style, with fish

2) Salad of finely sliced smoked duck breast & asparagus with finely chopped pastrami and orange sauce

3) Main of Hapuku fillet with Chorizo Sauce on Potato Gratin (or other starchy base)

4) Smoked Kingfish Pate, crackers, Cheese (ideas?) - probably matched with Emerson's Old 95

So any ideas on some beers I can match in?

[Greig McGill]

3 Monts would be good. Cut through that molasses.
Also, you don't think the GF WCIPA might be a little intense for the soup? That said, I'd have probably done Smoking Bishop with it... so you know, I can't talk. ;)

[Bambule]

Your right, but I'm dying to try it so I had to slip it in!

[Mike Neilson]

Slip it in before and after or when ever you or her want to try! Haha no seriously I reacon the Green Flash would slice the sweetness in half.