What Is Your Favorite Beer and Food Pairing?

Straight up Chicago-style pizza (cornmeal crust) with a DIPA (preferably Pliny if I have it on hand.)

 

A good ribeye with an imperial stout runs a close second.

 

Even before i became an over-the-top beer dork, i appreciated how fantastic it was to pair a nice stout with fresh oysters on the half shell. But now that i've explored this pairing a little further, i truly think that Heady Topper with raw oysters may be the greatest possible food pairing of all time. i don't know how it can be beat. It will undoubtedly be how i start my thanksgiving meal!

(anyone else like IIPAs with oysters?)

as a close second, the lady and I discovered a fantastic little cafe in the Marais neighborhood of Paris (but aren't they all...) and we had a delicious steak tartare with a fresh tripel. Was so shockingly tasty i had to make it my avatar when i joined BA

ha, care for a little gout, anyone??

 

Made in heaven huh? I spose I'll give it a shot, although whenever I come across Indian food I cant help but recall a line from the odeon panther scene in Anchorman.... (I'm a fan of the movie if u can't tell)

And oysters or raw beef don't exactly shout beer pairing to me either buy why not?

 

How could I forget steamed clams and pilsner ?

 

Hop Leaf in Chicago has a sandwich called CBJ... cashew butter and jam. It's got cashew butter, fig jam, and raclette cheese on sourdough. I LOVE pairing it with Cuvee des Jacobins. The funk in the cheese along with the sour cutting through the rich cashew butter and sweet fig jam is seriously 100% perfect. This is what got me into pairing beer with food.

A solid IPA with a burger or pizza are two very classic pairing that I always go for and am happy.

Backwoods Bastard with a potato bacon soup that I made recently was surprisingly amazing (in the sharing your pairing thread).

 

I don't know why, but I've never thought to do this. I'm going to have to give this a go very soon. I'm guessing this is more around English BWs that are more on the sweet side correct?

 

The sweeter the BW, the better I like the pairing.

 

Probably anything at Beachwood BBQ with something on their bottle list or draught list.

Maybe chicken nachos and early batch Supplication

 

FBS or Epic's Big Bad Baptist with a big damn slice of Cheesecake.

Bleu Cheese BBQ Burger with Trappist Rochefort 10.

 

Stone Ruination IPA with a medium cooked prime rib steak. Does not get a whole lot better than that in my book haha

 

Great choice. They have fantastic food.

 

Still to this day my favorite pairing is Dogfish Head 90 Minute IPA and ghridelli chocolate brownies.

 

i love a good Pale Ale or IPA with some buffalo chicken wings and french fries...as well as pairing a great double IPA with a fat BBQ smoked pork sandwich thats been smoking for 24 hours! damn now i wanna smoke some meat this weekend!

 

It's been a while since I've made some pulled pork but thinking about having it with a big DIPA just sounds outstanding. Hmmm... may have to do that soon.

 

for some reason i freaking love a big ba barleywine with good chocolate. dark chocolate or milk.

rich chocolate with artic devil is outta this world

 

Any good cheese with any good beer.

 

Belgian pale ales with Moules and frites
CHEEEEEEEEEEEEESE Uh... good cheddar with a Saison / Chevre with a tripel
Bitter dark high quality chocolate - roast porter, Russian Imperials
roast grilled meats and doppelbocks.... come to think of it, I almost always never have doppelbocks unless I am making something...

 

Sierra Nevada Bigfoot was pretty awesome with my dad's chocolate cheesecake.