Beer flavor changed mid glass while eating?

[jekeane]

I made a roast the other night (it was tasty). While eating the roast I was drinking a american amber with all cascade hops it was my second glass but my first with the meal. The beer tasted fine then I had a few bites of my meal and took another sip. It was undrinkable... the taste was medicinalish, not band aid but something chemical. My wife tried it before and after and had the same experience. I put the beer in the fridge and finished my meal about 30 minutes and a few cookies later I went back to the beer. It was normal a decent tasting Amber I had my wife taste it and she concurred. My only thought is there is some off flavor or alcohol in the beer that is amplified exponentially when mixed with one of the ingredients in that meal...

What happened?

 

[smccarter]

You had demons in the roasting pan. That's my guess.

 

[jekeane]

I generally don't season with demon seed...

Just kicked the keg and still tastes good.

 

[seagondollar]

I have had this experience. There are definitely foods that jive with certain beers. Ive stopped trying my beers in fermentation, in the morning while drinking coffee for this reason. Interesting article though http://www.epicurious.com/articlesguides/drinking/beer/beerpairings

 

[unionrdr]

Yup. It's surprising to me as well that a beer you think will go well with a particular dish doesn't. Like last Christmas for example. On Christmas Eve, we set up our usual buffet & my vanilla porter didn't go with the cookies/confections as well as the whiskely stout did. Weird...

 

[burninator]

Bad pairing. Good to know.

 

[Rev2010]

I too think it was a bad pairing combination rather than your beer. Sort of like how awful orange juice tastes after brushing your teeth. Certain flavors just seem to combine and create a real nasty taste. When the wife and I used to go to Germany often at some festivals they'd do bananenweizen - where they mix hefeweizen and banana puree in the glass. We first tried it with Paulaner and loved it. Next year at the same festival there was no Paulaner stand but Schofferhoffer was doing the bananenweizen with their wheat beer. So we got one and holy cow I nearly vommited. Smelled like fish, I kid you not, like strong fish, and tasted like wet dog hair. I dumped it before I got to the point where I was going to puke.

Some things just don't mix well.


Rev.

 

[unionrdr]

You mean like rotten punkins & dead carp?

 

[jekeane]

I too think it was a bad pairing combination rather than your beer. Sort of like how awful orange juice tastes after brushing your teeth. Certain flavors just seem to combine and create a real nasty taste.
Some things just don't mix well.


Rev.

That is pretty much sums up the experience.

 

[ong]

Did your meal include asparagus or Brussel sprouts? They're known to contain a sulfur compound that can make wine taste metallic. Seems possible that could happen with beer as well.

 

[jekeane]

Did your meal include asparagus or Brussel sprouts? They're known to contain a sulfur compound that can make wine taste metallic. Seems possible that could happen with beer as well.

No but there were large pieces of stewed onion which have sulfur compounds for sure.