Review: Guinness Nitro Stout & Guinness Beer Flavored Chips Pairing

Guinness Nitro Stout & Guinness Beer Flavored Chips Pairing: This was one of those spur of the moment beer pairings that started with the question “hey do you want some Guinness chips?”. After grabbing that bag of chips from the grocery store, I felt compelled to pick up a can of Guinness and try them for…

BC Beer and BC Cheese Pairing – Village 6 Year Old Cheddar and Strange Fellows Talisman Pale Ale

Village 6 Year Old Cheddar and Strange Fellows Talisman Pale Ale: For this beer and cheese pairing I decided to put a pale ale and aged cheddar togeother, which is a standard favourite and a good go-to pairing option for any occasion. Pale Ales, Amber Ales and Red Ales all tend to pair up quite nicely…

BC Beer and BC Cheese Pairing – Mt Lehman Blue Capri and Central City Brewing Thor’s Hammer Barleywine

Mt. Lehman Blue Capri and Central City Thor’s Hammer Barleywine: I have to start this post by giving a full on shout out to Ken Beattie from Eureka Beer Guide who introduced me to pairing blue cheese and Barleywine together. It truly created what he refers to as a “Eureka Moment” when I first tried it…

BC Beer and BC Cheese Pairing – Mt Lehman Cheese Co Gozzarella & Steel & Oak Smoked Hefeweizen

Mt Lehman Cheese Co Gozzarella & Steel & Oak Smoked Hefeweizen: Sometimes I’ll put a beer and cheese together just to see what happens and other times my pairing is specifically intentional to attempt to recreate a flavour combination like I did with this one. I wanted try and emulate a smoked mozzarella flavour in this cheese…

BC Beer and BC Cheese Pairing – Smits & Co.w Gone Goatee Cheese & Old Abbey Ales Belgian Quad

Smits & Co.w Gone Goatee & Old Abbey Ales Belgian Quad: In this pairing I feature two products from two producers in the neighbouring towns of Abbotsford and Chilliwack in British Columbia. It is incredible to see the growth in the outskirts of Greater Vancouver in farming towns such as these ones, each worthy of a local…

BC Beer and BC Cheese Pairing – Kootenay Meadows Nostrala & Cannery Naramata Nut Brown Ale

Kootenay Meadows Nostrala & Cannery Naramata Nut Brown Ale: In this pairing I feature two products from two different interior regions of British Columbia, each being an independent producer of beer or cheese. I luckily got to sample this cheese before buying a decent sized serving of it and I figured the earthy and nutty tasting notes…

BC Beer and BC Cheese Pairing – Moonstruck Ash Ripened Camembert & Moon Under Water Brett IPA

Moonstruck Ash Ripened Camembert & Moon Under Water Brett IPA: In this pairing, my intent was to explore how the Brettanomyces in the Farmhouse IPA mixed with some of the mild funk in a typical Camembert cheese, while also seeing how the ash interacted with the beer. I also couldn’t resist pairing two products with the word…