Posts Tagged: Beer and Food
Day 10: Thanksgiving Day Photos Category Announced!
Posted by on Tuesday, November 23, 2010 in - 1 comment
Blame the inspiration from watching too many episodes of Man v. Food but I am going to break my own rule. You will recall my most precious long standing rule: • No photos of dishes of food with a beer next to it. They never win and they kinda make other people feel queasy. Your food is no better …
Is This An Anti-"Pairing" Movement Starting?
Posted by on Monday, October 25, 2010 in - 2 comments
Well, maybe it's an anti-mandatory pairing movement going on in my old home province of Nova Scotia: • Restaurants on Quinpool Road in Halifax are being allowed to serve alcohol without food. Regional council agreed Tuesday to change the zoning law so restaurants can have lounges. Each business …
New York: A Restaurant In Albany With A Beer List
Posted by on Saturday, August 28, 2010 in - leave a comment
OK, sure there are 700 wines at the subtitled restaurant dp, An American Brasserie - but they have Blue Point Lager, Dogfish 60 and Ommegang's Hennepin and others on tap as well as ten or twelve well selected bottles. The stash in the back of van might be better today at the end of our trip but I …
The Best Way To Teach Folk About Good Beer?
Posted by on Monday, August 2, 2010 in - 8 comments
The backyard BBQ. It has to be. Likely because of Pete's daydreaming about his English garden, I got the urge to have a smoky BBQ yesterday. Well, it was the day before really as I had to put the ribs into an overnight soak of Sierra Nevada pale ale, a bunch of ends of BBQ sauce bottles from …
Do Olde Geuze And Oysters Go Together?
Posted by on Saturday, July 17, 2010 in - 8 comments
I was out hunting for some Caribbean stout to go with the PEI oysters I picked up and the incredibly jambi Mike Mundell's shop this afternoon. Without success. What to do? • I love oysters. I used to live in view of the Gulf of St. Lawrence on PEI's north shore and heading over to Carr's at …
Teach Your Children Well - BBQ Version
Posted by on Monday, July 12, 2010 in - 3 comments
Every holiday should include a lunch at Syracuse's Dinosaur BBQ. I had a Tres Hombre but as I I left meat (I'm embarrassed even thinking of it) I was not as hombre as I might have been. The beer is an Ape Hanger Ale that's made, I am pretty sure, by Middle Ages as a special house brew. It followed …
Lots Of Club Soda And A Pity Barbeque
Posted by on Monday, May 24, 2010 in - leave a comment
I hate not getting to get the BBQ going even if I am sick. And no, in true Canadian style, it wasn't really a BBQ even if I smoked the rib steaks for the last bit of the grilling. As our dinner guests took the hint, it was more of a pity 'que. Just a man, briquettes and meat. At least it wasn't a …
A Good Goat Cheese Likes A Belgian Pale Ale
Posted by on Saturday, February 20, 2010 in - 5 comments
Years ago, when I was thinking about extra part time jobs I might take on, I had this idea that I could set up an ice cream van that dispensed soft serve goats milk cheese. The brand was going to be "I Can't Believe This Came Out Of A Goat!" It never happened. • This evening I was reminded of … read more »
FTW: My Lamb's Wool Express Ale Mulling Experiment
Posted by on Thursday, January 14, 2010 in - 6 comments
I finally got around to making that Lamb's Wool, an 18th century form of English mulled beer that I wanted to try to make over Christmas. But I never found the time to core the apples, bake the apples, heat the beer, baste the apples and sit down to a meal of hot backed apples and mulled beer …
Why Does That Word "Pairing" Make My Temples Ache?
Posted by on Sunday, January 10, 2010 in - 44 comments
This has bugged me for a while. And that it bugs me bugs others, too. Here is what I know. Someone somewhere in the last few years decided we needed to "pair" beer with food. Prior to that, people just drank beer with their food and were generally happy with the many ways that great beer goes with …
