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riday Im helping a friend host a large dinner party with an array of steaks, spicy salads and crepes, kinda a hodge podge of goodies. My contribution is hops hops beautiful hops. I’m curious as to what would be best paired with this food: my thoughts so far are leaning towards imperial stouts for the steaks, possibly lambics or bells two hearted for the salads and abts/quads for dessert. Any help greatly appreciated!
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I think you’re going way too big all around, thats alot of big beer.
If you want stout with the steak, go with oatmeal stout. personally I would prefer porter or ESB, something britishy, Fullers London Porter, Fullers ESB or Vintage Ale, Anchor Porter. The two-hearted would work also, as would any moderate strength IPA. I’m a big fan of Woodstock IPA (now MacTarnahan’s Oak aged IPA) with steak. Imperial stouts don’t really work well with food, outside of cheese perhaps.
For the salads, IPA is fine but I’d use IPA with other food as above and go with something lighter like the lambics you mentioned, gueuze in particular works well as an aperitif anyway.
And you’d probably want to find a way to work some saison in there, Saison Dupont is one of those really versatile beers that works well in alot of meals.
Imperial stouts can work with chocolate so you could use those for desert. Some Abts/Quad actually do work well with food. One of the most surprising pairs I ever did was Rochefort 10 with backyard-grilled hamburgers.
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Porters, Stouts (not imperial), Dubbels, or Browns for the steaks.
Blondes, Heffes, Cream Ales, Pils, or something similarly light, for the salads - I think something tart would overpower the course.
Something spicy for your hoppy beers - Thai, Mexican, spicy wings, Sichuan, etc.
Imperial Stouts for dessert - with anything rich and chocolaty (high cacao chocolates, brownies, etc.).
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Thanks for the feedback! Very constructive and helpful. I definitely was planning on working in the geuze so glad to know that’s backed up by others. Thanks again the dinner should be this much better now.
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