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I've been conscious for a while of a growing interest in matching beer and food so have created a new section where you can easily find the articles I've published, together with ones on cider and perry. You can find plenty more suggestions in my book An Appetite for Ale which I wrote with my son, Will!

Recent articles

  Bakewell tart and Liefmans Kriek
Feb 22, 2010
It’s been hard to pick a single pairing from the beer and food matching dinner I attended at the Anchor in Walberswick last week but I reckon it’s got to be the perfect pairing of Bakewell tart and Liefmans Kriek.
  Steak and Stilton pie with London Porter
Feb 1, 2010
A perfect beer and food pairing
  Haggis and Westmalle Dubbel
Jan 25, 2010
An unorthodox last minute suggestion for Burns' Night.
  Have pint, will travel: the launch of 'Beer Safari'
Jan 21, 2010
Could we be seeing the start of beer tourism? Susanna Forbes reports on the launch of a one day 'beer safari' in East Anglia with the opportunity to do some hands-on beer and food matching
  How about having a New Year’s Eve beer dinner for a change?
Dec 29, 2009

If you haven’t already made your plans for New Year’s Eve why not invite over a few friends and treat them to a beer dinner instead of one based on wine?
  Smoked herring roes on toast and oyster stout
Nov 17, 2009
Much sexier than it sounds! A sublime combination of taste and texture . . .
  Top wine (and other) matches for sausages
Nov 4, 2009
As it’s both Bonfire Night and British Sausage Week this week there’s a fair chance that you’ll be eating bangers of some kind, so what’s the best pairing? As always it depends on the sausage but I personally find that beer and cider are often just as good partners as wine
  Ideas for a beer and game menu
Oct 28, 2009
I've been invited to a game dinner at Brown's hotel in Mayfair next week at which every course is matched with a beer or a perry. I can't make it but thought you'd be interested in the pairings
  What to drink with Scandinavian food
Oct 17, 2009
If culture and ‘terroir’ are a basis for deciding which drinks best match a particular cuisine then beer must have a strong claim to be paired with Scandinavian food.
  The Ultimate Beer Dinner!
Sep 16, 2009
I've just heard through Facebook (the way you find out everything these days) that the irrepressible Garrett Oliver of Brooklyn Brewery has pulled off the ultimate coup of staging a beer dinner at Thomas Keller's Per Se as part of New York's Craft Beer Week.
 
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