Or beer and roots music.
Or beer and alt.country (“whatever that is,” at the late, great No Depression magazine said on its cove).
Truth is we like wine in our family. We like all manner of jazz. Still I was surprised to see Wine and Jazz magazine today at the book store. Turns out it has been around a couple of years, and the tagline says, “Celebrating the Perfect Lifestyle Combination.”
Right.
At the risk of turning this beer and wine category into beer versus wine I do have to point out they feature “blogologists” rather than bloggers. Rest assured, if I ever start Craft Beer & Alt.Country magazine (the tagline would be “An existential debate with every sip or every chord”) we’ll employ bloggers.
One final thought. Thank goodness that North Coast Brewing has staked out Thelonious Monk for all of us.
Uncle Tupelo and a dry-hopped APA works for me.
Hard to believe but when I first saw the “Uncle Tupelo rates the beers” list on the wall in the St. Louis Brewery Bottleworks brewhouse I was talking to Otto – drum roll, please – about how they dry hop the Schlafly APA.
Saison and Junior Kimbrough (or his peers) will be all I need.
Oh man…how I seriously agree with this! 🙂
Doing so right now with some more modern Blue’s, a beer and working on everything beer.
That being said though…it really is about preference as we know of course. Here in Dallas at our Art Museum we have jazz night Thursdays that are almost always based around the wino culture. Rarely will you see beer offerings etc. Is it more fitting? No I personally don’t think so but to each their own.
Wine and Jazz? Sure! But I’ll take my beer and Jazz and or beer and Blues 😉
Ilya
Jazz used to be a more populist art form in its very early days, but has transformed into a more elitist and esoteric artform, and therefore seems a natural pairing with wine. Blues has always stayed true to its populist roots over time, and hopefully craft beer with stay that way, too. Howlin’ Wolf with a good porter, if you please.
Wine always seems to be about conquering and holding perceived valuable territory, the fine dining table, the art opening, Jazz, the symphony.
Beer is happy to cede these territories using it’s macro army to swallow up the everyday and dominate major sports and arenas.
Craft beer needs to create some new territory, so that insecure wine will try to muscle in. Then, craft beer, it swoops in and takes back the table and other soft wine positions.
Not the wicker man, but the classic war flick or the crazy college prank, I dunno.
Blogologists? Is that like Mediterranean Avenue with a hotel or something?
We can cede that.