Comments on: Beer –v– wine smackdown http://beermatt.com/2009/11/16/beer-v-wine-smackdown/ The place to put your beer down Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:49:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Ian Watson http://beermatt.com/2009/11/16/beer-v-wine-smackdown/#comment-326 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 04:37:44 +0000 http://beermatt.wordpress.com/2009/11/16/beer-v-wine-smackdown/#comment-326 Good job Matt.
Am surprised by the wine he chose for the first 2 courses…. especially the first. I think he could have won that with a different wine (my choice of wine mayhaps would have seemed a little obvious)… I am pretty sure that he knows a LOT more about wine than I do.

For the satay….. I thought and thought about this one and then forgot to get back to you on it.
Alpha indeed would have been a good choice as would have Nirvan pale Ale from Murray’s… My thougthts were heading along the lines of a slightly richer Belgian Strong Golden Ale like Judas, but I am not convinced about it fully so will have to do a trial at home.

And naturally Trois Pistols was a wonderous choice with chocolate. I thought that his choice for that would likely be a port, shiraz or zinfandel…. none of them as capable with chocolate as beer (just as beer falls short of wine in other areas- but we don’t mention them).

Good work by both of you showing that beer and wine are colleagues not competitors on the dining table.

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