Matching Beer with Food

Guest post by Dain Turner

Ask anyone what food beer goes good with and 99% of the time you’ll get pizza as the answer, but there are really a lot of other foods that go well with beer, depending on what type of beer you’re drinking.

There are so many different type of beer classified by taste, texture, aroma, brewing process, etc., that it would literally take up a book. But since this is a blog post, we’re going to keep it simple and use the all familiar EBU and IBU values. (?!?) Ok, so maybe they’re not familiar at all, but basically it’s a scale that rates the bitterness of beers.

So, why does beer go so well with pizza? It’s the tomato sauce on the pizza that compliments the bitterness of the beer and actually enhances the flavor, and vise versa. However, the beer you ‘re slugging down with the pizza would probably not go well with foods with a deeper taste. Yes, I know we were going to keep it simple and just talk about bitterness, but this will be easier with pictures. Everything’s easier with pictures.

If you follow this easy guide, you can’t go wrong.

	Light beer (meaning less bitter or sweet): Pizza(DUH)Hamburgers (drooling DUH)Dishes with curry., like curry chickenSpicy foods. Think Mexican dishes, Thai dishes, etc.
	Dark (heavy beer): Stew, Beef dishes, Barbeque
	Stout (dry): Shrimp, Oysters, Lobster

At the end of the day, I think most beer drinkers would be happy just drinking beer, but if you want to do it right, just follow the guide and you might not even fall off your bar stool.