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am doing a RIS tasting.....and I need some savory foods to eat with all the great RIS’s......any suggestions...?
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braised meats. never had the two combined but i’d bet osso bucco or short ribs, would be good. anything with chocolate, butter-cream or vanilla
better hurry up the weather isnt getting much cooler.... 
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This cheese, a high cacao dark chocolate, a Bucheron goat cheese tart, good beef stock barley soup etc.
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MY GOD you are so pretentious. Who has ever heard of Cotswold cheese?
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Seriously? It’s fairly standard stuff.
Personally I don’t really see any savory foods going well with imperial stouts. Chocolate and desert works obviously but meat to me wouldn’t make sense.
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I knew there was a reason I really liked you.
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The soup would only be the liquid stock with no actual meat. I would think something like a pepper crusted blackened Ribeye Steak would go very well with it, but I do not eat beef.
And I think Chris was being facetious.
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! I remember that conversation .
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Nah, most ISs are too sweet, wouldn’t go well at all with the intense savory and saltiness of the steak. The flavors are both obviously quite strong but they’d clash.
I think the pairing with meats would be much easier if you only used dry imperial stouts. The sweet ones (Yeti, Dark Lord, most over 10%) are a lot harder.
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I typically only think of the drier ones as the sweeter they are the less I tend to like them. Plus you can pair like type food and alcohol or contrasting such as a Cantillon Kriek with a sweet Dark chocolate and Cherry Tart. I often prefer the contrasting.
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Totally agree that contrasting can be great, I just don’t think an IS could pair with a steak. With a steak I’d probably do an IPA (Two Hearted) if I did anything at all. Or maybe a good BdG. That’s about it.
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