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Witbier and asparagus

Posted by Fiona Beckett (Google+) on June 10 2009 at 16:41

There’s still a couple of weeks more to enjoy the British asparagus season so here’s an interesting beer pairing to try as a change fromwine. Belgian witbier or bière blanche like Hoegaarden is just perfect with green asparagus, especially when served with goats’ cheese.

For those of you who aren’t familiar with the style, witbier is a light-coloured wheat beer aromatised with spices like coriander, cloves and coriander which makes it slightly spicy with a hint of orange and banana. It’s also left unfiltered which makes it attractively cloudy and is served very cold, sometimes with a slice of lemon. Although the style originated in Belgium and is common over the border in Northern France, many brewers elsewhere now make a wheat beer in this style.

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