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.