Uniting the Beer Community

netbros — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 13:19:45 -0800

Greatbrewers.com releases the Beer Sommelier. Beer is increasingly considered the ideal beverage to accompany food for its palate cleansing carbonation and its diverse range of styles featuring flavor and aroma characteristics that can enhance any dish. But selecting the right beer style to complement a specific dish, and tracking down a retailer that carries that style presents inherent challenges. Masterfully select the best beer styles to pair with any dish, see examples of those styles, and track down individual beers in your neighborhood with the Beer Sommelier. "The process starts with a vertical row of large picture boxes, each repping a main ingredient, from the meaty (beef, fish, poultry, game), to the not-so-meaty (nuts, fruit, cheese, chocolate); click one and a second row'll appear, offering schloads of popular dishes within the category, i.e., Pasta breaks into mac & cheese, lo mein, lasagna, etc., Bread rocks blinis and corn fritters, and Seafood runs from chowder to caviar, for that special occasion worth a vintage 1974 Schlitz. Once a dish's specified, a third row'll appear featuring general styles of beer to pair with it (i.e., German-style strong doppelbock, Bamberg-style Marzen Rauchbier) as rec'd by a cred-heavy trio of industry vets, with links to a fact sheet on the style (flavor profile, typical ABV, bitterness, appropriate glassware), and myriad examples of the style from a database of over 2,100 craft beers, each with its own page replete with tasting notes, availability, and tap type required, aka, "keg connection." (via Thrillist Nation)

A wee dram

Joe Beese — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 13:38:20 -0800

Malt Madness. Malt Maniacs. Whisky Fun.

It has what plants crave… electrolytes!

Blazecock Pileon — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 21:08:08 -0800

You'll feel like a fighter jet made of biceps!

I'm not fat, that's my beer belly

ColdChef — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 12:53:39 -0800

The Beerbelly A removable spare tire that serves a stealth beverage.

The Sourtoe Cocktail

DevilsAdvocate — Mon, 01 Aug 2005 05:33:41 -0800

Do it fast or do it slow, but the lips must touch the toe.

TuxHeDoh — Wed, 17 May 2000 07:43:20 -0800

Pure water that's lost it's innocence - DNA

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Uniting the Beer Community

A wee dram

It has what plants crave… electrolytes!

I'm not fat, that's my beer belly

The Sourtoe Cocktail