Beer and food pairing by Neil Miller

[Kempicus]

Saw this in the Wellingtonian yesterday....not a bad read

[MrC]

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?

[Stu McKinlay]

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

[Kempicus]

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!

[Alasdair]

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".

[Jaysen Magan]

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.

[Tony]

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.

[Denise Garland]

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.

[Jaysen Magan]

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

[Steph]

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

[colin m]

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

[Steve Nally]

I've seen worse