Beer & ????

fonecrusher1

Since im getting more into quality over quantity these days what can you nibble on when drinking something like paulaner or chimay or something like that?

How about some cheese or something?

BeerNut

Cheese and beer is great. Get some cheese. Eat it with beer.

Guill

Pork ribs.:rolleyes:

Technocentral

Chips go with everything, hmmm...

FortuneChip

If I'm planning on having nibbles with beers, I'd usually do some chicken wings of homemade spicy wedges.

Chips are an easy one too, but I'm guessing you want something a little more sophisticated. Try "French Fries"

abouttobebanned

Aldi do this smoked cheese with ham pieces in it. Great with a good quality beer.

tricky D

+1 for cheese.

Heard something on the radio a few weeks ago about someone doing beer and cheese taste combination gourmet thing type promos in some pub. Sounded interesting.

fonecrusher1

FortuneChip wrote: »

If I'm planning on having nibbles with beers, I'd usually do some chicken wings of homemade spicy wedges.

Chips are an easy one too, but I'm guessing you want something a little more sophisticated. Try "French Fries"

Sophisticated? moi???:D:D

Hell no, ive been drinking piss poor beer for years. Usually beer & peanuts. Its boring, very boring. Now that ive stepped my beer quality up a further level im just wondering if theres anything beyond crisps & nuts as a snack.

Eating cheese with beer sounds a little bit pretentious but from what im reading cheese actually goes better with beer than it does with wine. Think i'l get a nice block of mature cheddar & see how it goes. Its not so much for the enjoyment of cheese its to heighten my enjoyment of the beer.

BeerNut

I'd recommend getting small pieces of lots of different types of cheese -- runny ones, blue one, smoked ones, mature ones -- and mixing and matching with different types of beer.

noby

tricky D wrote: »

+1 for cheese.

Heard something on the radio a few weeks ago about someone doing beer and cheese taste combination gourmet thing type promos in some pub. Sounded interesting.

As part of the Waterford Harvest Festival we (Dungarvan Brewing Co.), along with the Porterhouse did a Beer and Cheese tasting session with Sheridan's cheesemongers. It was a greast way to spend an afternoon - tasting different beers with different cheeses. As The Beernut said, get small samples of different cheeses, and try mixing and matching to see what works.


Also, don't forget cured meats like parma ham, chorizo, salami etc.

johnnyskeleton

Fillet steak marinated in butter, pepper and red wine; potatoes gratin ; fresh garden salad and some bruschetta go well with a nice 750ml bottle of Leffe

Ronan|Raven

Gin.

Sephiroth_dude

pringles,nyom.

Sephiroth_dude

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

pringles,nyom.

Indeed. Not as posh as fancy cheese but sour cream and onion pringles go well with most beers except stouts

ntlbell

superquinn have a nice smoked apple wood cheddar, goes very well with most beers

BeerNut

There's an M&S onion cheddar "Cornish Cruncher" that works great with beer.

the beer revolu

Deleted User wrote: »

Indeed. Not as posh as fancy cheese but sour cream and onion pringles go well with most beers except stouts

Pringle's are the devils food (when he's in the mood for something particularly artificial and nasty and over-flavoured) and should not even be in the same building as good beer.

Sephiroth_dude

Deleted User wrote: »

Indeed. Not as posh as fancy cheese but sour cream and onion pringles go well with most beers except stouts

Salt and vinegar ftw :pac:

fonecrusher1

God damn! beer n cheese? Its feckin delicious.:eek:

Got myself a chunk of extra mature McClelland cheese in tescos. They had tescos finest assortment pack but at 10.99 its taking the piss a little. Anyway the extra mature seemed to go well with anything. Especially the bottle of Old Speckled Hen...yum. Its a bit of a stinker but its a heavy flavoursome cheese & i will get it again. Initially i was thinking this cheese n beer thing was a load of bollox but it really does work.:)

goldencleric

Bleu d'Auvergne with a nice stout mmmm

slayerking

Some chocolate and a nice roasty stout pair very well!

Jev/N

Chili nuts or, even better, roast wasabi peas are brilliant with beer!

ollaetta

the beer revolu wrote: »

Pringle's are the devils food (when he's in the mood for something particularly artificial and nasty and over-flavoured) and should not even be in the same building as good beer.

A guy used to come into the Porterhouse regularly and order something like a Duvel or Maredsous and have a small tube of Pringles with every one. Yeuch!

Haven't seen him in ages, must have OD'd on the Pringles.

johnnyskeleton

fonecrusher1 wrote: »

God damn! beer n cheese? Its feckin delicious.:eek:

Got myself a chunk of extra mature McClelland cheese in tescos. They had tescos finest assortment pack but at 10.99 its taking the piss a little. Anyway the extra mature seemed to go well with anything. Especially the bottle of Old Speckled Hen...yum. Its a bit of a stinker but its a heavy flavoursome cheese & i will get it again. Initially i was thinking this cheese n beer thing was a load of bollox but it really does work.:)

Depends. Sharp cheese and good beer is a great combination. Equally, a soft cheese and a nice strong whiskey does the job.

Suffice it to say that beer is good. Also, cheese is good.

kenmc

Olives, cheese, cured meats or pretzels.