Posts Tagged: Beer and Food
Beer And Food: Home Made Apple And Mozzarella Pizza
Posted by on Saturday, April 6, 2013 in - leave a comment
So, this was dessert. We made a stack of pizzas tonight. This was the last one. I even have the blister on the back of my wrist where I brushed the hot oven wall to prove it. But apple pizza? Thirty years ago in the north end of Halifax, Nova Scotia there was Pizzeria Tomaso with Mr. Tomaso still …
Not Beer: Pinot Noir 2009, Grange, Closson Road, PEC
Posted by on Saturday, March 23, 2013 in - 1 comment
I didn't buy this when we visited The Grange of Prince Edward County last August but maybe I should have. Found a bottle on a low shelf at the local government store. I sorta realized I had not been paying attention to this grape. I've probably been in a Côtes du Rhône rut now that I think of it …
Beer And Food: Baking Whole Wheat Beer Buns
Posted by on Saturday, February 23, 2013 in - leave a comment
One of the best things about having less time for just drinking beer is you can find other things to do with the stuff. A bottle of New Belgium Abbey ale went into two trays of whole wheat buns this afternoon. They await the oven above. Five flours. Low salt. Less of a factor in the flavour than a …
Beer Cocktails: Are Raspberries In Gueuze So Wrong?
Posted by on Thursday, July 26, 2012 in - 4 comments
Not a complex beer cocktail. Just fresh raspberries in Gueuze Cuvée René from Lindemans, the gueuze that our monopolistic overlords allow us at least in the summer. The nice thing about raspberry is that it has a lot in common with gueuze. Dry acidity. OK, that is about it but it's not like I am …
Summer Vacation 2012: So Far This Is What I'm Doing
Posted by on Tuesday, July 24, 2012 in - 2 comments
What an odd summer vacation. The first half keeps me at home and the second sees me on the road. What I have learned so far? • -> I really really like Manhattans. And I am comforted that Lew reminded us that Four Roses yellow label is perfectly respectable. I am working down the price points and …
Idaho: Snarling Badger Berliner Weisse, Grand Teton Brewing
Posted by on Saturday, May 12, 2012 in - 1 comment
I have no idea what to think of this. A sample of a Berliner Weisse from Grand Teton in Idaho showed up in the mail the other week and I thought to myself... I have no idea what to think of this. While I have quite enjoyed their samples before, I have only had one Berliner Weisse before and I have …
Brewers' Plate 2012 And My Happy Schooling
Posted by on Thursday, April 19, 2012 in - 6 comments
What a pleasant Wednesday. I ate. I sipped. I asked myself a lot about how people in downtown Toronto spend their Wednesday evenings. I did not think I got swept away in pairing mania but, and it is a subtle but so bear with me, there were many wonderful combinations to be found. • For example …
Brewers' Plate 2012 Is Coming Up In Two Weeks
Posted by on Tuesday, April 3, 2012 in - 8 comments
I am not one much for getting in the car and driving to Toronto. It's a bit of a haul and, frankly, when Montreal, Ottawa and Syracuse are all pretty much the same two hours plus or minus away it get hard to convince the family to go west given the delights to the east, north and south. But once … read more »
Quebec: La Rousse (Revisited), Belle Gueule, Brasseurs R.J.
Posted by on Monday, March 12, 2012 in - leave a comment
Repeating an experiment, I realized last summer's beer was actually just off. This Belle Gueule Rousse was pretty fine with a wood oven pizza, the malty richness cut by the char of the crust. I didn't try it with all 75 varieties offered by Pizza Il Focolaio but I expect it would find it goes …
Do We Need To Keep The Cooks Away From Beer?
Posted by on Sunday, March 11, 2012 in - 14 comments
One of the main reasons I don't like the idea of matching and pairing is that everything pretty goes with pretty much everything else in the right combination. Failing that general principle can lead to some tortured twists of logic and language: • Sriram Aylur, whose London restaurant Quilon … read more »
