Compared to numerous other beer and food pairing blogs out there, this one is still in its infancy when I say that this is my 150th post. I figured that I should pick out a few of my favorite images I've gathered and posted on this blog to highlight some of my beer drinking and food eating adventures.
This one is from my
Troegs Nugget Nectar review. From my recollection, this is one of the first beer reviews I did with my current digital camera. It was taken the night the beer was tapped at Blue Dust in Homestead, which means it was one of the first tappings of Nugget Nectar in all of Pittsburgh.
When you blow the picture up, you can see the detail in both the body and the carbonation of the beer. Nugget Nectar appears to have a lovely color as well. To me, this looks like a perfect pour. The crown of the beer looks well bogged down in the top of the glass and I also love how the beer seems to poke out from the darkness like it's some holy entity.
I fell in love with this image as soon as I uploaded the set from the camera. I've grown to enjoy looking at it so much, that I've tried to incorporate it into many of the backgrounds I've experimented with over the last year or so that I've been writing this blog.
This next one is from my post about a
visit to Fat Head's Pittsburgh. After trying a few great beers on tap, my stomach was craving one of my favorite aphrodisiacs, chicken wings. Upon checking out the sauces Fat Head's had available I saw the intriguing Jalapeno Cheddar flavor.
I had to try them. The sauce is pretty much spicy cheese sauce with jalapeno chunks spread about in it, but it was an adventurous meal.
Did you think I was really going to have only one photograph featuring a lovely-looking beer? This is a really dark one, but also extremely delicious. It's from my
Mary's Maple Porter review a few months back.
It was just a limited-release by Brooklyn Brewery and I was lucky to sample it, once again at the craft beer capitol of Pittsburgh, at Blue Dust.
I sometimes find it fascinating to stare at the heads of darker beers and inspect the different shades of beige and off-white colors they exhibit.
This one had a head that was more than the thickness of two fingers and was so bubbly. It had such an interesting texture. Complimenting the head was one dark abyss of a body.
The taste of this beer was pretty awesome. If I could pour this over pancakes in the morning, I'm sure it would be an enhancement from syrup.
The next two are from a few very recent posts, both of which were on my trip to Gettysburg. This burger shot is from the town's newest bar and grill joint, the Blue and Gray Bar and Grill. If you read
my post about it, you'll see a few examples of the exotic, Civil War themed burgers the place has on its menu.
This one was in a typical southern tradition and featured peanut butter and bacon. One of the best burgers I've ever eaten. There's plenty more where that came from.
This last one is from my recent review of
Appalachian Brewing's Cream Ale. I've been known to have some sort of an attraction to beers with foaming heads in pint glasses, but this one was a different take.
The beer's head wasn't as active as some others are, but was just thick enough to appear as an appetizing layer of cream. The beer's body was hazy and opaque, but it just had an effervescence to it that was extremely appealing. The deep gold in the body and the white creminess of the head played off of each other well. The rustic atmosphere in the photograph's background doesn't hurt either.
The sweetness on the front and the hop character and tanginess on the back also helped me love this beer.
