Food That Goes Good With Beer. (off Topic)

Mario,

Years ago, back in the "hair days", worked for a restaurant and I was in charge of the boiled shrimp, which was all you could eat, you peel them, large 16-20's. Boil them with Old Bay, and I always take the spices out of the bag, until just about done, then empty the old water and pour in a can of BEER, or two, depending on the size of the pot. Return it to the heat and steam a minute or so, stirring to make sure the shrimp gets heated with the beer. Plate them and eat them HOT! Sauce NEEDS lots of Horseradish AND fresh lemon which helps the spices/horseradish ....

Rich

Ahh yes Rich, I am very familiar with steam and or boiled gems of the sea with old bay seasoning! and cold beer! :-)

I always thought wings go great with beer. For a nice sit down meal, ribs. Not seafood, but great with beer.

Ah, last evening I had a good brown ale with a wonderful pizza. Worked perfectly together.
Sad, though, that I cannot remember the name/brand of the beverage.

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BillSwartwout.com

Beer goes great with beer!

Ed, I love my chicken wings and found my best sauce to be Frank's Original Wing Sauce I just melt one whole stick of butter with half the bottle and let it simmer slowly while frying my wings. I love the wingets best. Blue cheese and celery stick must accompany and gotta have my steamed little necks too.

Bill I use the dark ale's in many recipes, love a good Irish stew with that frothy foamy dark chocolate like beer.

Ronald I gotta have something to munch with if I'm drinking. Lol!

Unfortunately beer ruins the taste of everything.

Toby after the first two or three beers it doesn't matter. Lol!

No way Toby lol

Not food, but, a good cigar with a good beer is a good combo also.

One word Ed, COHIBA

Mario,

I found this MUCH BETTER! Rickey's Chicken Wing Sauce. I used to be able to buy it locally at Sam's Club, but no longer carried, just asked if I can buy it online and pick it up at my club. They're out of Hollywood, down the street from you!

Rich

I am from Wisconsin...

The is no such thing as a food that does not go good with beer!

I hear you Floyd! I'm from Miami and one thing that beer was made for is Chicharrones which are fried pork skin with the fat and some meat on the skin these are large chicharrones and they are amazing beer food!

Rich, if I changed my wing recipe I would be found DOA. Lol!

I like Ronald's thought. A second beer goes well after a first beer, a third beer goes well after a second beer, etc...

Nice big pretzel with a good mustard.

I had a Cuban sandwich with mine at lunch.

Anything salty goes good with beer, I used to frequent an amazing place called East Coast Fisheries it was a seafood market and restaurant near the downtown area of Miami right on the Miami river. It's now a historical landmark but I used to go there with friends and order a platter of fried smelts and they were fantastic with cold beer.

The restaurant was two stories and rather rustic from the 1920's I believe anyway the kitchen was below and there was a open floor plan and you could see as they cooked the food you ordered from the seating area upstairs,how I miss that place.

As a young man in a past life, I worked quite a few midnight shifts. Getting home about 7:00 am, I was often hungry and needed to get to sleep fast. I would cook some eggs, toast and wash it all down with two cold beers and then go to bed.

Surprisingly it was a good combination and the beers helped me go to sleep quickly.

Mario,

They frown at the meetings if I drink.

Dave

I know, nothing good ever comes out of meetings.

Just kidding David, hey indulge in any of the above meals with a coke and it will work I just wouldn't do it to often for health reasons..

Mel, for some reason what you said just reminded me of when I worked afternoon shift in a corrugated box factory as a young man, I would get home around midnight just in time for TV episodes of the show Combat starting Vic Morrow. I would sit down for whatever meal my family had saved for me and enjoy it with the show.

Eggs toast and beer must have done that for me because it sounds like a very good combo for when one gets home from work, time of day means nothing.

I have a few dishes which are excellent with beer. I created some German dishes because most I find don't look appetizing. They can be tough to create and look good since so few colors are involved. I make sauerkraut with dark lager which is fantastic. So I differ that beer ruins everything. German's cook food as much with beer as perhaps the Franch cook it with wine.

Let's not forget ribs

This is called a Rolade, it consists of thinly sliced beef spiced with mustard, pepper, salt, and paprika. Then we stuff if with a bacon a wedge of dill pickle and fried onion. The whole thing is rolled up and we roast it in the oven until it is brown. Some with make a gravy adding red wine, a bay leave, juniper berry, and cloves. It is served with red cabbage, mash potato or homemade pasta

About 50 years ago, I discovered that beer went very well with Army C-rations ( not-so-good food in cans ).

During my tour of duty in South Vietnam, small boats or helicopters would bring supplies to us when our squad was out at a forward observation or small outpost. Drinkable water was very important and often hard to get. There would be a shortage of water back at our main base, or there would be nothing available to carry it in. So the boats or choppers frequently brought us cardboard cases of 24 beers or soft drinks in cans.



Of course these canned beverages were not refrigerated, but like someone said long ago " war is hell ". Anyway, most of us preferred the warm beer over soft drinks, to wash down our C-rations which we usually added a lot of salt for taste ( and to replace what we lost in sweat). Pop-top aluminum cans had not been invented back then so we used our bayonets to punch drinking holes in the cans.

I went to Bavaria once i was shocked at how fatty food can actually be. After a couple of days i ordered potato balls instead of fries with the fatty pork steak out of mercy for my liver.
the giant potato ball came, swiming in a bowl of melted butter...

Fatty food is not the only thing that goes well with beer. But i think beer actually allows to eat it easier, with his freshness and bitterness (at last pilsener beer).
many french beers are different because they can use more ingredients (in germany they can only use malt, wather, hop and yeast), in belgium among other places there are many
less bitter and thicker beers made with different yeasts that would go well with, say, a dessert.

But even in germany there are many local beers ( you are supposed to order the right one depending on the city where you are) with great differences.
I would drink a Diebels Altbier (dark, aromatic and bitter) with a steak and a Gaffel kölsch (less bitter) with a dessert. As well as a Warsteiner if i want to be drunk after a mineral water.

i guess there is a beer that goes with every dish actually.

note: italians drink beer with pizza, those i know a last.

My MFA class visited Berlin a month ago and to my pleasant surprise, the dishes still traditional by nature had less fat. I think some region will continue the fatty dishes because its what tourists expect. But where Germans reside you should be able to find healthier options. You are right there are beers which can be paired much like wines with dishes. We drink different beers depending on the seasons as well. Lighter ones in summer since they are more refreshing and heavier ones in the colder month.

I am from Wisconsin...

The is no such thing as a food that does not go good with beer!

Even these?:



I call 'em "lemon pie bars" -- a variation of the traditional lemon bar -- I baked this batch a couple days ago.

Yes, they are ridiculously decadent.

With beer, though? -- no way.

maybe with one of the "alcoholic mineral waters" i described, even if i don't classify them as beers.

funny, i live in the state of Vaud in Switzerland, which is as big as some german cities, a german state is as big as Switzerland. I really got to visit the US where a state is as big as Germany and the country as big as the european continent. Just need money and 3 months.

As near as I can tell, most non-salad foods go with beer. The trick is to find the right beer to match the food. I often notice that beer that's great by itself, notably strong-flavored beers like stouts or IPA are hard to match for food because the beer's flavor is so assertive. Most food seems to go well with something like a golden ale, maybe beefier foods work with a middle-weight brown ale. Sometimes a pale, non-hoppy beer goes well as a counterweight to more assertive foods or spicy hot foods. The key is to counterbalance one with the other.

beer. ew

Marlene that's usually my reaction to anything stronger than beer or wine like vodka and whiskey with maybe the exception of a few mixed drinks.

Iris, those are some nice looking dishes, I love sausages of all types and I make my own home made on occasion.

Robert I always save a few swigs to wash down my dessert if we are having anything, did it with some key lime pie the other day and it was pretty good, I wouldn't think twice about washing those lemon bars with a cold one.

That's true Doug, I'm a larger lover but the stouts and dark beers I like with stews usually, I include the beer in the stew and then serve the same beer with the meal.

Georg, there is plenty to see and take in, 3 months sound like a nice vacation!

"What do you want in your coffee?"

"More coffee."

"What would you like with your beer?"

You know where that goes.

"...all I want for my birthday is another birthday" (Ian Dury)

Then there is the common comment, "I thought that beer was a food!"

Schaffer
Is the
One beer to have
When you're having more than one.

Schaffer
Pleasure
Doesn't fade
Even when your thirst is done.

The most rewarding flavor
In this man's world
For people who are having fun.

Schaffer
Is the
One beer to have
When your having more than one!

Who ever came up with the idea of commercials without a catchy jingle, was WRONG! (full disclosure, I don't know that I have EVER intentionally drunk a Schaffer Beer) I haven't heard that jingle in probably 50 years (I'm 60) and yet I still remember it. Nor have I intentionally quaffed a Ballantine Beer (It's got three ring! It's a Very Special Glass of Beer)

I have made the mistake of making the beer I pour, say something more, so those nights, I let it be Lowenbrau. For some reason those people are no longer my friends. (False advertising! I'm sure that was it. But admittedly, 99.6% of the people that have told me that I am a very likable guy, no longer like me... sooooo... Bunch of liars!) But they murdered that poor brand.

I think Beef goes best with most beers. And I think that the beef I enjoy the most is a Hamburger. A nice, fatty, juicy, bloody burger, wrapped in any kind of bread (to soak up the juices ) with a thinly sliced onion (three slices) and sour cream. I like almost any condiment on a burger, Ketchup, Dijon Mustard, Mayo based concoctions (secret sauce), Hot or sweet pepper relish, Pickle relish, Apple Butter (albeit sans onion) Mushrooms and Swiss (I used to love the Friendly's Swiss Patty Melt on Rye bread...yum!) Barbeque sauce, Whatsthishere Sauce?, A1... All are perfection matched with the right beer (or not.)

Is it lunch time yet?

UPD

(Oh, and Iris! That is TORTURE! Yaaaa UM!)


{edit} IMHO, Beer goes much better with Fishing, than it does with Fish.

I have a pack of my favorite winter/holiday brew Mad Elf, by Troegs Brewing in my fridge. It's a barleywine ale with notes of cherry and honey. Excellent with a burger.

Sunday, I will be getting married at a Sea Dog Brewing company here in Maine. Very excited. Their beer is ok, but the brewery is located in the oldest standing paper mill in Maine (Pejepscot Paper Company) so there's tons of old brick and arched windows for pics. Should be awesome!

I believe I have been there! It is a quite nice place (or where ever I was, was a nice place, anyway)

You're getting married this Sunday?! !

WOW. I'm happy for you. (If I recall your story correctly) I am very happy you have found Love and Happiness in Maine (not like I have anything to do with any of it.) Although you seem to be more excited about the venue than the future Mrs.. But that's just my jaundiced eye.

Congratulations Rick! And best wishes to your bride.

Huh! I did NOT expect this turn in the tale!

PLAU
UPD

Thanks Uther! Well, I was trying to stick to the beer topic. But she's an amazing person and yes, things have turned around nicely since moving to Maine.

When I was in training in the city, we'd go to McSorley's Ale House. What a dump. A de rigueur act of machismo given its history of misogyny. What a dump... Nor was I a large fan of their "beer" but we'd order the big bucket of fried calamari (I don't think it came with sauce, that would have been too frou frou for McSorleys... Checking, however, I have to say that I might be misremembering. The Wiki page says that the first change to the menu in 50 years was the addition of hot dogs in 2017... ) and a lot of beer! If anyone would know what "goes" with beer (among manly men!) it would be McSorley's.

Prior to the 1970 ruling, the motto was "Good Ale, Raw Onions and No Ladies"; the raw onions can still be had as part of McSorley's cheese platter.

In 2017 McSorley's added Feltman's of Coney Island Hot Dogs to their menu, the first time the menu was altered in over 50 years. Feltman's owner, Michael Quinn, was a long time employee at McSorley's. During the late 1800s Feltman's Restaurant at Coney Island was a popular destination for the McSorley family
From Wiki.
Although I notice they don't mention the" good ale" along with the onions or the ladies

"Sunday, I will be getting married at a Sea Dog Brewing company here in Maine. Very excited. " - Congratulations!

Rick,

Congratulations to you and your bride.

Dave

Congratulations, Rick!!!

Yeah! Congrats Rick!

Uther, you forgot the mention the most interesting man in the world drinks Dos Equis XX ! Lol! I remember Schaffer beer it was probably the best priced beer they sold in the 60's, I say that because that was the beer my father brought around the dinner table, I remember as a child being allowed to savor the frothy head of this beer.

This thread is getting me hungry, it's Friday and I can't think of a better meal to make than fried buffalo style chicken wings, celery and chunky blue cheese dip, steamed little neck clams on the shell with lemon and a drip of tabasco and a six pack and a half of Dos XX's (only cause it's Friday) to wash it all down with including the key lime pie for dessert. Stay thirsty my friend!

I've been long surprised at the Most Interesting Man in the World. With all his sophistication, travel and experience, it seems like he'd be an imperial stout sort of a guy or a savant of Belgian Trappist Ales.

Lol!, Doug you must try Dos XX's.

Wow, love is in the air and it's not even February yet. Congratulation Rick. Sounds like a beautiful place to tie the knot. We are expecting pictures.

Mario - Lol!, Doug you must try Dos XX's. - I've had plenty of it at parties over the years. It's a good summer - crab beer.

Congrats Rick. I like the word "oldest" when describing the venue. Should be a fun shoot for the lucky photographer. Post pics.

Here's a shot I took of the mill building last year. The wedding will be this evening.



It is the oldest surviving paper mill in the state of Maine, built in 1868. According to Wikipedia: "In 1998 the mill was included on the National Trust for Historic Preservation list of most endangered sites.[4] It was later restored and currently houses the Sea Dog Brewing Company and a number of small businesses." I'm looking forward to the photos myself. Hope my photographer does gets some good stuff!

Best wishes to you on this memorable day Rick! The setting for your wedding looks awesome and looks like your about to walk in to a time capsule to the past. Eat, drink and be merry!

"Stay thirsty my friends" till next time.