Favorite "Odd" Beer Pairings

[NothingRhymesWithCurtiss]

Sure, an IPA goes great with spicy food, and a Double Stout is awesome with a piece of chocolate cake, but what about the great odd pairings that you've encountered? Let's hear them!

Some of my favorites:

• Porter with PB&J (Crunchy Peanut Butter; Grape Jelly)
  
• West Coast IPA and Sour Patch Kids
  
• Cider and Cinnamon Rolls

 

[TheMadKing]

Cream Ale and pretzels with mustard

Guinness float with mint chip ice cream

Hefeweizen and lemon crepes

American lager and Chinese food (I'm a cheap date)

 

[jwalk4]

Cider and cinnamon rolls sounds too sweet for me. But then again, I haven't had SPKs in ages either.


I made and ipa with enough grapefruit flavor to count as a breakfast smoothie once!

 

[JKaranka]

Dry perry with grilled fish is great. Most dry perry / cider pairs with a lot of stuff. A nice dry porter with rib-eye steak is a favourite as well.

 

[slym2none]

What food doesn't go good with beer?

 

[oceanic_brew]

I had a blueberry hef with butter chicken the other night and was amazing

 

[Gnomebrewer]

I quite enjoy an English bitter with a Munich helles!

 

[JonM]

If a Mexican restaurant has a Hefeweizen on tap, get that with your tacos/burrito/etc.

 

[KrausenCrazedCanuck]

Cream Ale and pretzels with mustard

Guinness float with mint chip ice cream

Hefeweizen and lemon crepes

American lager and Chinese food (I'm a cheap date)

The Guinness float sounds amazing
Now the 2016 st patts party drink at my place! Thank you!

 

[KrausenCrazedCanuck]

The Guinness float sounds amazing
Now the 2016 st patts party drink at my place! Thank you!

 

[MVKTR2]

Malty slightly eatery beers like Irish Red, especially Sam Adams, is great with eggs over easy and those runny yolks.

 

[JKaranka]

Oh, by the way, a snakebite of sour and medium dry cider is great. Berlin weisse is good as a sour in it. Nice and refreshing.

 

[zmanzorro]

A few days ago I had Stone Double Bastard with Ben & Jerry's Snickerdoodle Cookie Core Ice Cream, and it was quite delicious.

 

[johngg123]

I don't know if this qualifies as odd but it is a perfect pair... IPA and pistachios.

Bonus: red wine and pirates booty.

 

[FatDragon]

American lager and Chinese food (I'm a cheap date)

Especially if it's hotpot or Chinese street barbecue.

Probably not such an odd beer pairing (I don't really know many beer pairings...), but I dig an easygoing porter with a big bowl of spicy chili.

 

[2trout]

Oreos and beer.

At least it was great in college

trout

 

[didinho]

What food doesn't go good with beer?

Icecream.
I always feel this slimy cream bubbling inside my stomach after combining the two.

 

[slym2none]

That might be a truly personal thing. Ice cream floats made with stouts are awesome!

 

[JKaranka]

Imperial stout with dry brut cava is another cracking blend for an amped up black velvet

 

[MVKTR2]

Cream Ale and pretzels with mustard

Guinness float with mint chip ice cream

Hefeweizen and lemon crepes

American lager and Chinese food (I'm a cheap date)

Your taste buds speak my taste buds' language.

 

[MVKTR2]

Even though I liked someone's list with an ice cream float, I've tried several iterations of beer-ice cream floats and haven't found one I'm crazy about or even like much at all.

 

[Gnomebrewer]

English bitter with a big cheese toastie. A proper one fried in lots of butter with pile of different cheeses.

 

[JKaranka]

Pizza marinara with a plain, dry, Saison. Good sub for light white wine.

 

[kwadric]

IPA out the bottle (or glass). Fruity Pebbles out the box. Oddly transcendental.

 

[filthyastronaut]

Gyoza and Saison.

 

[BuglessDuster]

I don't generally like beer with food, but I made an interesting discovery recently. I was eating sushi and drinking a Bell's Expedition Stout. Something about the beer and the soy sauce that I put on the sushi really worked well together.

 

[NothingRhymesWithCurtiss]

I don't generally like beer with food, but I made an interesting discovery recently. I was eating sushi and drinking a Bell's Expedition Stout. Something about the beer and the soy sauce that I put on the sushi really worked well together.

Years back my wife and I went out for sushi and the only local craft beer on draft was Short's Bellaire Brown. More so wanting a solid beer than a "beer pairing," I ordered it, and damn if it didn't go well with the sushi! I agree that it was something about the soy sauce melding with chocolate, caramel and toast flavors.

 

[philosofool]

PB&J with Dunkelweizen. I'm not kidding.

 

[JKaranka]

Scratchings and mild is obvious here but maybe uncommon that side of the pond?

 

[slym2none]

You'll have to explain to us Yanks what "scratchings" are.

 

[JKaranka]

You guys love all things pork! Maybe you have them under another name? Very typical in pubs but also other European countries like Spain (chicharrones). They are bits of pork rind that have been deep fried until crispy and then seasoned. Served out of a packet like crisps or peanuts.

 

[BuglessDuster]

You guys love all things pork! Maybe you have them under another name? Very typical in pubs but also other European countries like Spain (chicharrones). They are bits of pork rind that have been deep fried until crispy and then seasoned. Served out of a packet like crisps or peanuts.

Pork rinds!

 

[slym2none]

Rinds are the puffy, crispy ones, and cracklin's are the hard, break-your-teeth bits.

TIL that pork rinds are called scratchings in the UK.



And yes, they are great with beer. Pork fat rules, baby!

 

[BreezyBrew]

Imperial stout and lemon tart. Sounds odd, but delicious.

 

[JKaranka]

Rinds are the puffy, crispy ones, and cracklin's are the hard, break-your-teeth bits.

TIL that pork rinds are called scratchings in the UK.



And yes, they are great with beer. Pork fat rules, baby!

The British ones fall in between. Slightly puffy with bits of fat / lard that is soft and some fairly hard bits. I've had the puffy crispy light ones in Spain.

 

[zippybasher]

Greens and an IPA