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Pairing cheese with beer are becoming all the rage. While wine provides a good contrast to gourmet cheese – beer’s toasty, grainy flavors make it a natural partner for cheese. So enjoy your brewski and cheese and soon you’ll be singing praises of these perfect pairings.
Il Villaggio® Parmigiano-Reggiano:
This complex cheese – at once dry, spicy and salty – requires an amber or India pale ale.
Gruyère, Comté, Morbier:
Try a powerful, high-alcohol English barley wine but also malty beers, such as amber ales. A hard cheese like Comté also pairs well with strong ale or doppelbock, stout or porter.
Ile de France® Brie, Le Rustique Camembert or other bloomy rind cheeses:
The mushroom notes in these cheeses harmonize with a French Bière de Garde. This beer – as well as German kolsch, Belgian blond or other pale ales, or American fruit ales – cleanse the palate after these rich cheeses
Taleggio, Chaumes, Muenster or other washed rind cheeses:
These go well with Bière de Garde, French farmhouse ales, of which the most widely available is probably Jenlain.
Saint Agur®, Blue Stilton and other Blues:
A honey brown lager is heavenly with Saint Agur®. An imperial stout, with its chocolaty nature, is a good match for Blue Stilton. Other good pairings are stouts, potent barley wines and strong dark ales. Strong Belgian ales, stronger porters, and heavier dark beers such as old ales also work with Roquefort or Stilton.
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