Raise a glass to the Washington Post – or at least sports guy Dan Steinberg.
Each Friday during football season he’s going to recommend an American artisanal cheese for tailgating and have a former co-worker, Jeff Wells, pick American craft beer.
This week Steinberg chooses Red Hawk, an organic washed rind triple creme from California’s Cowgirl Creamery. Cowgirl co-founder Sue Conley suggests a dark or spicy beer with the cheese, noting it is harder to pair with wine (no surprise). The fallback position is Riesling.
Wells picks Allagash White for the first weekend, thinking not so much about the cheese as the fact that “Tailgating on a hot summer day calls for the world’s most thirst-quenching fermented beverage.”
Steinberg promises they’ll compare tailgates on Monday.
Is that Jeff Wells from Global Brewers Guild? Former Manhattan Rep? He used to sell Allagash… it probably is.