I think I put on five pounds this week just reading or thinking about food and beer together.
Lucy Saunders’ new book arrived in the mail this week, I received a press release about a beer cookbook out in January and I chatted with a chef who has a different, and I think excellent, idea on […]

Captain Hops of Beer Haiku Daily has made the call for Session #8 and it’s “Beer and Food.”
No, you don’t have to include a haiku.
And, yes, just yesterday I commented this beer and food thing was gaining traction.
I am looking for posts about pairing beer with food or using beer as an ingredient in food. […]

Is this beer and food thing gaining a little momentum or is it my imagination?
- Otter Creek Brewing will continue to host its weekly local cheese and beer pairings each Friday through October as part of the brewery’s “Local foods meet Local Brews” events.
The free beer and cheese pairings, which include eight different Vermont […]

Jack Curtin recently reported that Philadephia’s Copa, Too! has closed, and wrote about that restaurant/bar’s place in history. I added a few details at Beer Travelers, but since we seem to have slipped into beer-and-food mode here I’ll use the news as an excuse to post another recipe (a dessert, of course).
Tom Peters managed some […]

Flying Dog Brewery, based in Denver, has launched a stand alone site dedicated to beer dinners.
It’ll be interesting to follow how this plays out, since right now the information posted is Flying Dog centric. This certainly could be a great resource.
There’s a category for promoting dinners, which would allow brewpubs, restaurants and even organizations (say […]

The other day I mentioned Goose Island Cascade Pumpkin Brulee and Eric Trimmer asked for a recipe. Here it is.
As already noted, Goose Island brewmaster Greg Hall says to bury the eggs in a container with the Cascade hops, seal, and refrigerate for 3-5 days. Goose Island Brewmaster Greg Hall says that because eggs are […]

Sierra and I made a home school field trip yesterday to check out a small operation a few hours to the north, virtually on the banks of the Rio Grande, where a couple of guys are growing all manner of organic foods at 5,800 feet.
Included are many varieties of hops, most of them apparently […]

Last week I casually used the term “gastropub” pub in referring to a series of stories about beer and cheese in the Boston Globe and didn’t give it further thought.
Today Stonch writes about the Time Out search for London’s best gastropub, and this time I paused.
The word merits an entry in Webster’s New Millennium Dictionary […]

Cheese, beer and cheese, and more cheese today in the Boston Globe.
The paper reports on the 24th annual American Cheese Society conference in Burlington, Vt. You may have to register to read the stories, and the main story doesn’t seem to be online, but here goes:
- Some say beer beats wine in this pairs competition. […]

Can’t help myself, it seems.
I’m not sure I understand Zarfhome, or who Zarf might be, but he or she has done the heavy lifting with a rather complete list of Flavor Wheels of the World.
You’ve got stuff from perfume people, beer, wine, coffee, chocolate, maple products and some other lists.
A cheese flavor wheel is mentioned […]