In my previous post, I mentioned the Bigfoot tasting. We also had some cheese with the beers.
I’ve read a lot about blues going well with barleywines. This certianly bore out in my experience. There was a Stilton, who’s fruitiness and creamy texture played especially well with Bigfoot. A more pedestrian, French blue [...]
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‘foot Cheese
March 25, 2008Dark Wheat: it’s what’s for dinner
January 21, 2008Ms. BeerGeek and I began gearing up for judging at this weekend’s Upper-Mississippi Mashout. One of the categories we’re assigned to judge is German wheat beers.
So, to go with tonight’s dinner of braised short-ribs, we picked the Schneider’s Dunkelweizen. It has a characteristically big banana nose (75%) with substantial clove (25%) notes, too. [...]
Bring on the Funk: Ommegeddon
January 13, 2008I’d been sitting on a bottle of Ommegang brewery’s Ommegeddon Funkhouse Ale with Brettanomyces for a while, thinking I should try it with some funky cheeses. Yesterday, Ms. BeerGeek, the new little BeerGeek-in-training and I were in NE Mpls. and got to Surdyk’s. Based on what I’d expected, the monger there actually suggested [...]
Wine and Cheese - no way!
June 26, 2007Most folks think of wine and cheese as a natural pair - no way! Beer and cheese on the other hand are made for each other.
I’d always believed this to be fact myself, but then, I’m biased. I’ve also heard wine lovers say about the only thing cheese does for wine is mute the tannins [...]
Goats Collide
April 1, 2007On Friday night I was waiting for my fish at Mac’s in Roseville and headed over to the near-by Cellars. One of the beers I picked up was Victory St. Victorious Doppelbock. Doppelbocks are particularly strong bocks with extra malty flavors and plenty of alcoholic strength. I found Victory’s beer to be [...]
Saison + Chevre d’Or = Yummy
March 26, 2007Saturday night, I was hanging-out at a beer geek party to taste Saisons. The Saison is a French farmhouse style. Historically, it was brewed in the spring with enough alcohol to last through the summer but not so much that you couldn’t drink it for lunch and still work the fields (this was [...]
