Monday Rant: Food Pairings with Wine and Beer

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I've touched on the subjects of both beer and wine quite a few times in the past with a few posts. It was within these posts that I discussed and shared a few links and studies about the health benefits of both concoctions.

Over the past few days I've been pairing different types of cookies with the homebrewed mocha stout I have. One day this might transpire into a post of it's own, but I developed a conundrum last night when it comes to food pairings.

Both beer and wine snobs alike have been pairing their favorite adult beverages with all sorts of different foods. Since I planned on picking up a few bottles of wine tomorrow on my way home from work for a certain someone, I wondered which category of food pairings was more intriguing: pairings with wine or beer?

It's really a tough question to pose as I've obviously become more parsed in the ways of pairing foods with my favorite beers rather than wine. I've paired pilsners with spicy foods and fish. I've had stouts and porters with barbecue. Hell, I've even experimented with German foods and Marzenbier.

When it comes to wine, I've pretty much only tried white wine with Italian food (eggplant parmesan, to be exact). What I do love is that sour, tomato taste mixing well with a dry wine. It's awesome.

Still, I'm interested to find out what pairings there are out there in the world of wine. Are they similar to pairings with beer? Different? We will see.

Beer Review: Full Pint Rumplepilsen

Serving Type: Draft

ABV: 5.2 percent

Appearance: Rumplepilsen doesn't have anything really notable in it's appearance. That doesn't necessarily mean that's a bad thing, but it looks like your typical light beer with the golden straw color and a weak, white head. There wasn't a lot of carbonation in this beer either, but I think a lot of it might have interfered with the taste.

Smell: This beer smells very sweet and a biscuity. Those infamous pilsner malts also dance around in your nose after taking a waft.

Taste: It tasted very crisp and had that widely-known biscuity taste that's we are accustomed to with Czech Pilsners. It's very, very potent on the back of the tongue. The appearance of this beer isn't anything that draws you in, but the taste is what you expect with this style.

Overall Rating:     


Czech Pilsners are quickly making their way to the top of my list of preferred beer styles. That biscuity taste on the back of the tongue has become one of those beer sensations I've started to crave consistently. This beer's appearance isn't the greatest, but the taste blew me away.