The #beersuggestioneers explore the flavor components and the pairing possibilities of Tempelton (a Kölsch) from Barrelhouse Brewing Company. This West Coast style Kölsch, meaning it has a more assertive hop profile than the traditional versions.

Food pairings suggestions:  
1.  Terza Birra (literally translated: one-third beer) - Italian cheese
2.  Jackfruit tacos
3.  Firm, white fish 

General Food Pairings: Cuisine: Italian, Middle Eastern, salads. Meat: chicken, fish, pork. Cheese: Milky Flavors (Burratta, colby, mozzarella)

6c. Kölsch examples: Goose Island Summertime, Alaska Summer Ale, Harpoon Summer Beer, Cabrillo Kölsch

Serving Temp: 40°- 45°

Glassware: Mug, Pint Glass, Stange, Pilsner

Appearance: Pours golden yellow with a white head.

Aroma:  Assertive Herbal and spicy hop aromas come through easily but a subtle bready malt aroma breaks through as the beer warms just a bit.

Flavor: Grassy and spicy hop flavors quickly slide over the palate with bready malt flavors breaking through just as the beer warms in your mouth and before you swallow.  Tart malt notes linger in the aftertaste.

Mouthfeel: Well carbonated with a medium-low body.

Description from Barrelhouse Brewing Co.


Templeton Session Style Ale – Crisp | Gooseberry | Lychee
Templeton is crafted to be highly sessionable with a light balanced body and clean refreshing finish. Select malts and hops add subtle biscuit character with notes of pear and sauvignon blanc. We keep this beer low on alcohol and high on flavor so it pairs well with both work and play. This beer is a tribute to our friends in the community.
ABV 4.5% | IBU: 18 | S.G. 1.045

Seriously, nothing see to here. 

If you think all DIPA's are alike then you haven't tasted Saint Archer Brewery's offering. This DIPA has all kinds of tropical fruit, melon and bready aromas and flavors.

Food pairings suggestions:  
1. Rosemary Focaccia 
2. Pastrami sandwich on rye with baby greens
3. Pungent/earthy cheese

General Beer Pairing Suggestions:  
Cheese: Pepper Jack. Meat: smoked salmon. Cuisine: American, Mexican.   

Examples:  Pliny the Elder, Furious, Hopsickle, Hop Slayer

Serving Temp: 40°- 45°

Glassware: Snifter

Aroma: Lots of tropical fruit, grapefruit, pine, and a hint of wet earth.  As it warms melon notes become apparent. 

Appearance: Pours a hazy orange with off-white head that leaves a nice lace

Flavor: Bready malt with a hint of rye-like spice and complex tropical hop flavors.  As it warms melon notes become apparent. 

Mouthfeel: Medium body

It's time for another IPA and the pints&pairings #beersuggestioneers are ready to dissect the aromas and flavors of Saint Archer's IPA.

Food pairings suggestions:  
1. Lemmon zest scones
2. Swiss steak with sautéed or caramelized onions

General Beer Pairing Suggestions:  
Cheese: Pepper Jack. Meat: Fish, smoked salmon. Cuisine: American, Mexican.   

Saint Archer IPA

Examples:  Titan,  Stone IPA, Two Hearted Ale, 11th Hour IPA 

Serving Temp: 40°- 45°

Glassware: Pint Glass, Mug

Aroma: Pine resin hits first followed by a nice bready malt aroma that almost covers up a wonderful herbal hop aroma. 

Appearance: Pours a dark golden, straw color with a thick white head that laces nicely.

Flavor:  Piney floral hops abound with an accretive  bitterness that finishes some citrus zest.

Mouthfeel: Medium-light body

The pints&pairings #beersuggestioneers enjoy Saint Archer Brewing Company's Pale Ale.  Whether it is sushi, curry or somewhere in-between, we have a bunch of great beer pairing suggestions. But, hangout to the very end of the show for a "blow-your-mind" pairing!

Food pairings suggestions:  
1. Pasta with a garlic butter sauce and fresh ground pepper.
2. Clam sushi bite
3. Indian curry stew (either red or yellow)
4. Shortbread cookies

Basic Food Pairing Suggestions: Cuisine: American, Asian, Mexican. Cheese: earthy(Camembert, Fontina), nutty (Asiago, Colby, Parmesan) tangy (Brick, Edam, Feta), Meat: grilled meats (poultry, pork)

Saint Archer Pale Ale

American Pale Ale examples:  Sierra Nevada Pale Ale, Stone Pale Ale, Deschutes Mirror Pond, Full Sail Pale Ale

Serving: Pint Glass or Mug @ 40°- 55° 

Aroma: Reminiscent of an English pale ale in terms of malt aroma but with an interesting hop profile that perfectly melds several different hop varieties into a complex herbal, spicy, tropical fruit mixture.

Appearance: Hazy golden with a thin white head that fades quickly.

Flavor:  Grassy, earthy and malty bringing us back to a day when this is what pale ales were supposed to taste like. Malt becomes more present as it warms but the hop flavor becomes more piny and resinous.

Mouthfeel:  Medium bodied beer with a pleasant bitter aftertaste that leaves you wanting another drink. 

The first of four a beer flight night from Saint Archer Brewing Company for the pints&pairings #beersuggestioneers.  Jason and I explore the food pairing possibilities of Saint Archer Brewing Company's, Blonde Ale.

Food pairings suggestions:  
1.  Winter green salads.
2.  Shrimp tacos with spicy pico served with a corn tortilla
3.  Chowders


Food Pairings: Cuisine: Italian, Middle Eastern, salads. Meat: chicken, fish, pork. Cheese: Milky Flavors (Burratta, colby, mozzarella

6B. Blonde Ale examples: Redhook Blonde, Rogue Oregon Golden Ale, Russian River Aud Blonde, Widmer Blonde

Serving Temp: 40°- 45°

Glassware: Mug, Pint Glass

Appearance: Golden straw colored with a frothy white head.

Aroma: Farmhouse/horse blanket spice aromas with faint grassy hop notes. 

Flavor: Crisp grainy flavors with spicy root vegetable-like hop flavors

Mouthfeel: Medium-light body when cold (40°) but becomes heavier as it warms.  Drink and enjoy before it warms. 

The #beersuggestioneers get primed for a session of Saint Archer beers by cleaning out the beer closet.  Prairie Hop from Prairie Artisan Ales is a perfect blend of Belgian yeast and American hops.

Food pairings suggestions:  
1.  Herbal salads with spinach and/or arugula.
2.  Earthy or nutty cheeses.
3   Earthy seasoned poultry and fish. 

Examples:  Saison Dupont, Bruery Saison Rue, Hennepin

Serving Temp: 45°- 50°

Glassware: Tulip Glass

Appearance: Hazy, deep golden with a thick, compact (tiny bubbles, white head.

Aroma: Farmhouse/horse blanket spice aromas with faint grassy hop notes. 

Flavor: Wonderful farmhouse flavors of spice and hay with complementary grassy flavors.

Mouthfeel: Medium-light body with elevated carbonation.


General style info: Whether you are drinking a traditional strength (5% ABV or lower) or a more contemporary version (6% ABV or higher) Saisons should finish dry with very little sweetness.  Saisons aromas can be quite complex with a fruit and spice mixture reminiscent of barnyards. Typically their flavors will be malt balanced (leaning towards malt instead of hops) but peppery spice flavors from the yeast and the elevated carbonation levels create a beer with medium bitterness and a dry finish.

After a 2 hour session of drinking some pretty big beers, all I can say is, "Theres is'nt nothing to see hrere, please along move."

The #beersuggestioneers explore the wide range of #beerpairing possibilities of Matt's Burning Rosids from Stone Brewing Company.  

Food Pairing Suggestions:
1.  Glazed Donuts
2.  Grilled romaine with a vinaigrette and gorgonzola cheese
3.  Glazed duck

Matt's Burning Rosids

BJCP 16c: Saison

Other Commercial Examples: 

Serving Temp: 40°- 45°

Glassware: Tulip, Snifter

Appearance: Pours a dark reddish-orange with a white rocky white head that holds tight .

Aroma: Incredible cherry aroma with subtle smoky campfire layer

Flavor:  Lots of cherry flavor and other tangerine-like sweet/tart fruit flavors with just a touch of salty smoke flavor.

Mouthfeel: Medium body with lots of carbonation but becomes heavier as it warms.

The #beersuggestioneers embark on a flavor adventure with this IPA from Dogfish Head Craft Brewery.  The 61 Minute IPA is a truly unique beer that engages our #beerpairing senses.  

Food Pairing Suggestions:
1.  Wine washed rind cheese
2.  Mild/sweet tomato sauces
3.  Nuts: Almonds, Hazelnuts
4.  Grilled peaches

61 Minute IPA

BJCP 14: IPA

Other Commercial Examples: 

Serving Temp: 40°- 45°

Glassware: Tulip, Snifter

Appearance:  Pours red and full red in the deepest part of the snifter.  White head with little retention.

Aroma: Grape must with some sweet malt notes. Very little hop aroma.

Flavor:  Grapey flavors meld wonderfully with the malt and hop components of this beer.  Very little hop flavor and almost no hop bitterness. 

Mouthfeel: Medium with lots of prickly carbonation that help to lighten the mouthfeel. 

A #beerpairing suggestion poster for you to print out and display or as a quick reference guide.  

The #beersuggestioneers enjoy IPA 395 from Mammoth Brewing company. IPA 395 is a truly unique beer that incorporates juniper and sage which lends itself to some really exciting pairings.

Food Pairing Suggestions:
1.  Mushroom and cream sauce dishes.
2.  Double cream brie (ex. truffle brie)
3.  Tangy sauces (horseradish, mustard) to resonate with the juniper flavors.

IPA 395 - Mammoth Brewing Co.

BJCP 20: Imperial/Double IPA

Other Commercial Examples: 

Serving Temp: 40°- 45°

Glassware: Tulip, Snifter

Appearance:  Beautiful dark amber/copper color with a thick creamy head.

Aroma: Sage and juniper are front and center followed by copious amounts of tropical hop aromas. Subtle sweet malt and fruity esters become apparent as the beer warms.

Flavor:  The sweet malt flavors are balanced by juniper (softened by the sage flavors) and the hop flavor and bitterness.

Mouthfeel: Medium-heavy with lots of prickly carbonation that help to lighten the mouthfeel. 

The #beersuggestioneers tackle the last of the BJCP categories and complete the original mission* of pints&pairings!  Purple Haze, with its raspberry aroma and light and refreshing flavor, is a pleasant.

*This is not the end of pints&pairings. We have many more shows planned!

Food pairing suggestions: 
1. Mascarpone cheese desserts
2. Herb crusted, white fish
3. Pot pies

BJCP 20: Fruit Beer

Other Commercial Examples: New Glarus Belgian Red and Raspberry Tart, Bell’s Cherry Stout, Dogfish Head Aprihop, Great Divide Wild Raspberry Ale

Serving Temp: Variable, based on style (45°- 55°)

Glassware: Pilsner, Pint, Flute (based on ABV and base style)

Appearance:  Hazy orange with very little head retention.

Aroma:  Lots of raspberry initially with bready wheat malt becoming more prominent as the beer warms.

Flavor:  Sweet wheat bready flavors, very low bitterness (really no bitterness) and a touch of tartness.

Mouthfeel: Medium-light. 

After a 2 month break the #beersuggestioneers are back in the Lauter Tun studios cleaning out the beer closet.  There were some HD video problems so the only video available is from the Live YouTube stream.