Merry Christmas Food Tubers!
We're the Craft Beer boys and what we do is match beer with food.
So we've got some beers we think will go very nicely with what you're choosing for the big
day.
Cheese, so lots of people match wine with cheese, but beer actually has more flavour
profiles than wine.
We're going to crack open this, it's a Schlenkerla.
It's a smoked beer which is going to be incredible with blue cheese, strong cheddars.
This is actually a smoked weiss beer so it's got some clove and some christmassy flavours
to it as well.
It's a lively one!
Mmm, how do they get the smoke into the beer?
So, you cook grain before you make beer.
You cook it for as long as you want to, to make it dark like a stout or light like lager.
And these guys they smoke it as well as cook it.
And if you give it a sniff, really smokey, almost like smoked bacon.
It's absolutely incredible.
Bacon is a great taste profile to go with blue cheese.
I could do with a cracker actually, have you got one?
Okay so when you're tasting beer with any kind of match what you need top do is to go
beer, cheese, beer.
Ohhh, I would advise eating this in a well ventilated room because this is smokey.
Mince pies, now everybody loves mince pies at Christmas.
What takes mince pies into the stratosphere is a little bit of dark beer.
So I had that ion mind when I have chosen run finish.
Which is an oak aged beer, so it's a lovely dark deep.
That looks festive.
A little sip, pie sir?
Mmm hmm, thank you.
Mmm.
Well that's lovely.
That's got stone fruit in it, it's got spice, there's cloves there.
So the spices within this beer really, really complement the spices and the dark deep booze
of the mince pie.
It's a Scottish brewery.
Many people absolutely love it because they use oak barrels.
The rum finish is quite subtle.
It's more on the nose than it is on the pallet.
It's a lovely sweetness you get from it which you wouldn't expect.
It's gorgeous Jim.
That's available everywhere.
Every supermarket has Innis and Gunn.
Chocolate.
Who doesn't like chocolate?
But what are we going to match it with brad?
Well we're going for a bit of Huber Bock.
It's from the second oldest brewery, it's like dark lager very malty.
Ohh look at that, that's dark isn't it?
It's not really what you expect from a lager.
What makes it a lager?
Well a lager is when it's brewed slow and low for a longer period of time, at a lower
temperature.
Let's give it a go.
It's malty, it's rich, it's got some dark fruit flavours going.
It's cutting through the bitterness of the dark chocolate, it's a great combo.
It's kind of the opposite of what you might expect, maybe.
You think that the chocolate would be sweet and the beer would be bitter but with this
match we've flipped it round and they bring more out of each other.
It's two plus two equals five.
It's like Torvill and Dean.
So it's Christmas day, you're eating turkey, goose, big rib of beef or a cheese and leek
pastry for the vegetarian option.
These are the beers that we've gone for.
So gentlemen, open your beers.
Johnny, what is is and why?
Right this is a Saison Dupont.
It's from Germany.
Firstly, it's full of spicy slightly fruity notes that will just be dynamite with your
cranberry sauce.
Secondly it's really high in fermentation and you can see it's still bubbling |away
like mad.
So that's going to lift away any of the heavy stuff that you've got.
the heavy turkey, the bread sauce, the gorgeous soft potatoes and it's going to cut right
through that.
Thirdly, this beer is made at Christmas.
They used to make these in Belgium for the workers, the Saisons, they were called who
would work in the fields in the summer so they brewed it at Christmas.
Doesnt get nany more Christmassy than that!
Well Johnny, what have the Romans ever done for us?
Apart from crucify the birthday boy, they gave us the name for Caesar Augustus.
It's a lager IPA hybrid.
Now CHristmas day I don't want to go to bed at 6 o'clock because I've been drinking that.
It's not that strong!
That is!
7% er That's 6.5
This is 4.1.
A lager with Christmas dinner?
It's a lager IPA hybrid and do you know what?
I want to keep going.
And you will go all the way through three bong films, two Lord of the Rings and still
be able to watch Downton Abbey at the end of it.
Come on!
That's winning!
Boom.
Mmmm.
My My!
Well, err I don't eat turkey.
I'm straight up on the ham.
I'm on the big roast gammon.
I lvoe a heavy hitting beer and we're going to go a little bit stronger to get that little
bit of extra falvour in there.
After a couple you're going to be on the floor wathcing the third Indiana Jones movies.
This is all very well but it's not going to go with the turkey mate.
We're going to have to agree to disagree, there's no one beer that will match all food
that you'r eating on Christmas day.
Because they are all beautiful beers.
If you know a beer that's better than any of these to have all day on Christmas day
to go with your lunch, your cheese, your chocolates.
Then write it in the comments box below.
That's it from us.
Happy Christmas from the Craft beer boys!
Cheers Food tubers!
Cheers!
And if you like the look of those last three beers this beer pancakes recipe is perfect
with all three.
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