tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8717216232742676074.post1857244894393757455..comments2023-12-11T08:10:41.077+00:00Comments on Mark Dredge - Beer: What beer would you pair with it?Mark Dredgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11421095862178324693noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8717216232742676074.post-51150213405341686402012-08-16T13:16:01.453+01:002012-08-16T13:16:01.453+01:00While some beers are particularly matchable with f...While some beers are particularly matchable with food, there are some that deserve to be tasted separately. <br />As said before me, it's also easier to match wine and food, since plenty of people know that for ages. <br />As it is simply more complicated to match food and beer, without enough, say bibliography, on the subject, too many people give it up. <br />But with enough willpower, one day, they'll understand our views.<br />Hoppy yoursSaveur Bièrehttp://www.saveur-biere.com/en/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8717216232742676074.post-39683972140619582572012-05-12T11:29:09.459+01:002012-05-12T11:29:09.459+01:00I would chip in and suggest that maybe one thing w...I would chip in and suggest that maybe one thing which stops beer and food matching is the variation/confusion in beer categorisation - when a restaurateur sits down to work out their beer list (I wish) they are challenged with actually identifying what the beer is!<br />Would you say that in your experience you can rely on the classic categories, especially until you have actually tried them?<br />I can't see the person putting the wine list together trying each wine to check it is what it says it is - and I don't expect they have to, whereas with beer I wouldn't trust most labels as far as I could throw them.<br />The solution? keep plugging the beer and food matching and try to educate those selling food as at the moment I am sure it is simply easier to match wine with foodbeerfortheweekendhttp://www.beerfortheweekend.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8717216232742676074.post-56803599640370872582012-05-10T17:03:19.028+01:002012-05-10T17:03:19.028+01:00Hi dude - I'll second Nigel Barden, I listen t...Hi dude - I'll second Nigel Barden, I listen to that show and he often shouts out beer. Recipes are always good too.Leighhttp://www.goodfoodgoodbeer.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8717216232742676074.post-91298262548493736752012-05-10T14:34:43.993+01:002012-05-10T14:34:43.993+01:00One pro beer & food matching voice on the BBC ...One pro beer & food matching voice on the BBC - albeit radio - is Nigel Barden. He has a weekly recipe slot on Simon Mayo's R2 Drivetime show and matches his recipe with beer about 50% of the time (or so it seems to me when I listen). <br /><br />This month's Restaurant Magazine has a European beer & food matching article (although all light / blonde beers, and the panel's defintition of flavourful is a bit conservative) - the consensus seems to be that packaging is key and 750ml bottles would have more appeal. But at least the article is there!Lorrainehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12133690474573989605noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8717216232742676074.post-74267002858593820702012-05-09T12:31:50.061+01:002012-05-09T12:31:50.061+01:00"...perhaps that appreciation comes through l..."...perhaps that appreciation comes through learning more about beer on its own, backed up by knowledge of food in general, rather than ‘try these two together and you’ll discover that you do like beer, after all!’ Beer dinners are great as they introduce the idea of beer and food, but making it overly formal is a step in the wrong direction."<br /><br />Amen. http://beerblog.genx40.com/archive/2009/november/onlyonethingisAlanhttp://agoodbeerblog.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8717216232742676074.post-74052357687017634492012-05-09T10:45:56.354+01:002012-05-09T10:45:56.354+01:00Our contribution to getting there is absolutely re...Our contribution to getting there is absolutely refusing to be socially embarrassed into drinking wine with food when we don't want to. We sit with pint glasses at the dinner table; ask for beer in restaurants; and, if the beer isn't up to snuff, drink water. While there's a lingering feeling (as Jay Rayner said on the One Show) that wine is best with food, but beer's 'not bad', it'll stay in its ghetto.Baileyhttp://boakandbailey.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8717216232742676074.post-18711145760605441622012-05-09T09:24:41.512+01:002012-05-09T09:24:41.512+01:00Pete and I went to a cheese/ beer matching evening...Pete and I went to a cheese/ beer matching evening recently, and one of the people leading it went through that cut, compliment or contrast mantra. To be fair, it's an easy way of stating the obvious and it's not disimilar to how one would match wine to food too, it's just wine and food matching is never stated in such simple terms because the vocabulary is so much further along.<br />There does seem to be growing interest in beer, especially in craft beers or in a wider range of beers. And more and more restaurateurs are thinking a little bit more about their beer lists, not just their wine lists. But that's perhaps mostly in London and still the exception rather than the rule.<br />Someone at that same matching event pointed out that the UK's obsession with wine and food is really very recent, maybe 30 years at most, and that it wasn't long ago that beer was far more widely drunk with food. <br />Weird isn't it?Kaveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16662875905365870280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8717216232742676074.post-33378453335804181802012-05-09T08:16:32.714+01:002012-05-09T08:16:32.714+01:00I don't know what it is like over there, but a...I don't know what it is like over there, but at least in some countries the problem seems to be that there aren't people who know about beer. More often than not you get "wine people" who don't know much further than "beer can be divided in Ales and Lagers" spreading the kind of bollocks that make you want to seriously hurt someone.<br /><br />Then, of course, you have the big advertising money from the macros, who can recruit big name chefs or other similar food gurus who should know better to tout their stuff.Pivní Filosofhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17883511608403454943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8717216232742676074.post-11884712482694252112012-05-09T07:45:41.291+01:002012-05-09T07:45:41.291+01:00Well, Mark - it's not often a post leaves me a...Well, Mark - it's not often a post leaves me absolutely needing to respond on my own - but if you head over to the blog you'll see what I think about your (very valid) post! Thanks for the mention, dude.Leighhttp://www.goodfoodgoodbeer.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com