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Best beers for Christmas

Best beers for Christmas

Posted on December 23 2006 at 07:12

How many of you will be putting beer on the table at Christmas? Not that many, I suspect, but if you can bring yourself to break with tradition you could be in for a treat. Most supermarkets now carry a sufficiently wide range for you to be able to serve a different beer with each course, should you be so minded. And here’s how to do it:

Tags: Meantime porter stout American ale Belgian ale strong Belgian ale IPA Goose Island IPA Duvel Leffe weissbier white beer Hoegaarden witbier pilsner drink:beer & cider fruit cake Christmas cake Christmas turkey Christmas pudding turkey roast turkey smoked salmon food:desserts & cakes food:chicken & poultry food:fish & shellfish Christmas Stitchelton stilton cheese Young's Harvest ale Christmas Pudding Ale J.W.Lees barley wine vintage ale Meantime porter stout American ale Belgian ale strong Belgian ale IPA Goose Island IPA Leffe Duvel weissbier white beer Hoegaarden witbier pilsner drink:beer & cider fruit cake Christmas cake Christmas pudding Christmas turkey turkey roast turkey smoked salmon food:desserts & cakes food:chicken & poultry food:fish & shellfish vintage ale barley wine J.W.Lees Harvest ale Christmas Pudding Ale Young's cheese stilton Stitchelton Christmas
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Which wines and beers match best with Chinese food

Which wines and beers match best with Chinese food

Posted on February 15 2007 at 09:47

With Chinese new year coming up this weekend you may be planning a trip to a Chinese restaurant or planning a Chinese meal at home. But which wine to serve?

Tags: Chinese New Year China Chinese Jing Tea Dragonwell Great Red Cloak Puerh green tea Jasmine Silver Needle oolong jasmine tea Chinese tea tea Belgian triple beer drink:tea & coffee brown ale triple beer Leffe brune brune white beer weissbier witbier drink:beer & cider burgundy red burgundy Rhône Grenache Mourvèdre claret Bordeaux Shiraz Merlot blends Merlot Pinot Noir Tarrango Gamay Beaujolais drink:red wine white Zinfandel off-dry rosé off-dry Château de Sours Merlot Bordeaux clairet drink:rosé Veuve Clicquot Roederer ‘rich’ Champagne Champagne drink:champagne & sparkling New Zealand Oregon Gewürztraminer Torrontes Grüner Veltliner Pinot Gris kabinett Alsace Austria Loire Germany Riesling dry Riesling Sauvignon Blanc drink:white wine hoisin sauce spring rolls dumplings prawn dumplings Szechuan beef Szechuan black bean sauce glazed ribs sticky sauce duck Peking duck sweet and sour Cantonese sweet-sour food:veg & salads stir fried vegetables stir fry dim sum food:pork food:beef & lamb food:chicken & poultry food:pasta, rice & noodles food:fish & shellfish Chinese cuisine food:world food Chinese new year Chinese food
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Chilli con carne and American brown ale

Chilli con carne and American brown ale

Posted on November 5 2008 at 08:06

If you’re lighting a few fireworks for the kids (or yourselves, of course . . . ) tonight and hanging round in the cold you’ll need some warming food and a good chilli hits the spot perfectly

Tags: Guy Fawkes Zinfandel drink:red wine brune Leffe brune brown ale American brown ale drink:beer & cider chilli beef chili con carne chilli con carne food:beef & lamb bonfire night chili
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Chicken caesar salad and blonde ale

Chicken caesar salad and blonde ale

Posted on July 16 2007 at 10:52

It’s so automatic to think of a wine match these days that one sometimes overlooks the fact that a beer will work just as well, if not better. So it is with that great restaurant favourite, chicken caesar salad.

Tags: Chardonnay drink:white wine Schiehallion Duvel strong golden ale blonde Leffe blonde blonde ale ale chicken drink:beer & cider chicken caesar salad caesar salad food:veg & salads food:chicken & poultry Chablis white burgundy golden lager
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When your BF makes you an apple tart 😊 #appletart #appleFabulous day at a the first Cheese and Cider summit @littlepomona bringing together cheesemakers and cider producers. There’s a natural synergy between the two which i don’t think we make enough of. Here are two of my favourite cheeses, @applebyscheese Cheshire and @sticheltondairy along with gorgeous ciders from @rosscider, @welshmountaincider and @olivers_cider and @cellarmansam’s brilliant Cheddar on my Mind which, as the name suggests, is made to go with cheddar. . . . #cheese #cheddar #cheesemaker #cheeselover #cider #hardcider #cheeseandciderRare chance to drink a 1990 @pauljabouletaine Hermitage La Chapelle (in magnum) with @thewinesociety1874 @noblerotsoho last night for which they apparently paid £25 back in the 90s. The current vintage is now about £175 assuming you can even get your hands on a bottle*. Still amazingly intense so thought it went better with the cheeseboard than with the main course of roast chicken with morels and vin jaune which was perfect with a @domainefornerot Saint-Aubin. * apparently wines like this can sell out in 2 MINUTES once a newsletter goes out. #redwine #northernrhone #hermitage #roastchicken #cheese #saintaubin #whiteburgundy #winedinner #finewine #foodandwine #winelover #guestThese were the wines I presented at Friday night’s ‘Battle of the Beverages’ at @afoodfestival thanks to the generosity of the sponsors who donated the bottles. The idea was that @petebrownbeer and @olivers_cider and I should each champion a drink with 3 different cheeses * I picked @whitecastle’s Siegerrebe, a deliciously crisp fruity Welsh white to go with Dorstone goat cheese * A gorgeously rich full-bodied Ribera del Duero from @pradoreybodegas from @ultracomida go with a mature Teifi (a gouda-style cheese from @cawscenarthcheese) * and a lush, lemony @chateauliot Sauternes via @bordeauxwinesuk to go with Perl Las, a creamy slightly salty blue also from Caws Cenarth. You can see the beers and ciders my opponents put forward in the subsequent shots. Who won? Tom came first with two wins out of 3, I came second though won the third round with the Sauternes and Pete, somewhat unfairly, came third although he fielded some great beers. Fact is cider is amazingly delicious with cheese as you’ll find if you sign up to my Substack and join my online ‘bring a bottle’ subscribers’ tasting this coming Thursday. (You can join for £4.50 a month though a year’s sub is cheaper pro rata 😉. And you get wine recs too!) . . . #cheese #wineandcheese #wine #winepairing #welshwine #siegerrebe #goatcheese #dorstone #riberadelduero #redwine #teifi #sauternes #sweetwine #bluecheese #perllas Follow on Instagram

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