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“Try it with Mexican Food.” This was the food pairing recommendation on a press release for a bottle of beer I got last year. I can’t remember which bottle exactly and it doesn’t matter very much. One of the things that many beer companies are guilty of when it comes […]

Beer and Food: Estrella Taqueria

November 29, 2013 in Beer and Food / Reviews tagged Beer and Food / Bring A Wet Nap / Estrella Taqueria / Tacos by admin

It’s no secret that one of the things I look forward to every year during Ontario Craft Beer Week is the comparatively larger number of people thinking seriously about beer and food. Beer dinners, for instance, abound. The version of beer and food pairing that I think is probably most […]

Flights and Bites @ Fanny Chadwick’s – 2013

June 20, 2013 in Beer and Food / Ontario Craft Beer Week tagged Beer and Food / Fanny Chadwick's / Flights and Bites / Ontario Craft Beer Week by admin

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I’m sitting here and I’m trying to come up with an interesting and insightful way to plug The Brewer’s Plate. I mean, you could go with “It’s one of the premiere events of the Toronto beer scene!” or “It just keeps getting bigger and better!” or “I know $125.00 seems […]

In Which I Plug The Brewer’s Plate

April 11, 2013 in Beer and Food / Shameless Plugs tagged Beer and Food / Beer Pairing / Howard Dubrovsky is a Golden God / Not Far From The Tree / The Brewer's Plate / toronto by admin

Recently, I was flown to Boston to visit the Sam Adams Brewery. While we’ll no doubt get to the brewery tour itself later in the week once the experience has had some time to percolate through the ol’ grey matter, I wanted to talk about something that Sam Adams is […]

Beer and Food Tuesday: Temple Bar, Cambridge

November 6, 2012 in Beer and Food tagged Beer and Food / Boston Lager / Latitude 48 IPA / Sam Adams Utopia / Temple Bar Cambridge by admin

A large number of people like Pumpkin beer, and this is very largely because it tastes like fall. It has those pumpkin pies spices in it that make it reminiscent of coming in from raking leaves before Sunday dinner. That being said, it can be a little difficult to find […]

Beer And Food: Jamaican Curry Chicken and Nightmare on Mill ...

October 21, 2012 in Beer and Food / Shameless Plugs tagged Beer and Food / Jamaican Curry Chicken / Joel Manning / La-Toya Fagon / Mill Street / Nightmare on Mill Street / Twist Catering by admin

On Friday night, I got to go to a beer dinner hosted by Stephen Beaumont at the Capital Dining Room at the National Suites Hotel in Ottawa. You know Stephen Beaumont. He doesn’t really need any introduction. He’s been writing about beer for 23 years. He has a book coming […]

Beer and Food Tuesday: National Capital Craft Beer Week

August 22, 2012 in Beer and Food tagged Beer and Food / Beer and Food pairing / Capital Dining Room / Is sauce theft plagiarism? / Sinha Stout / Stephen Beaumont / Venskab by admin

Sometimes, Beer and Food Tuesday just falls in your lap and today was one of those days. I got a call from Troy Burtch at Great Lakes Brewery this morning. Shockingly, he wasn’t called to yell at me for the outcome of the Ontario Brewmaster’s Cup. I would have been […]

Beer and Food Tuesday: Nua Pad Prik with Miranda

August 14, 2012 in Beer and Food tagged Beer and Food / Great Lakes / Mike Lackey / No Chance With Miranda / Nua Pad Prik / T-Bu by admin

As Ontario Craft Beer Week continues on its merry, slightly lumbering way, I find that the events that I’m most interested in are the ones that deal with pairing food and beer. I suspect that this has to do with the fact that we don’t get enough of this in […]

OCB Week Beer and Food: Fanny Chadwick’s

June 21, 2012 in Beer and Food / Ontario Craft Beer Week tagged Beer and Food / Fanny Chadwick's / Flying Monkey's Stereo Vision / OCB Week 2012 by admin