Posts Tagged ‘ beer and food ’

Survey shows men like bland beer with plain food

March 2, 2011
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CUB has released the following results of a spurious survey designed to support their latest beer. As the beer is only available in Queensland for now, readers elsewhere in Australia will need to imagine what it tastes like…it tastes just like XXXX Summer Bright Lager, which it was designed to emulate but which had...
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Beer on the dining table

February 18, 2011
Beer deserves a place on the table

Aaron Caruana ponders why more people don't serve beer with their meals. After all, done well and it is superb....
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Christmas with the Rogers’

December 17, 2010
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Not sure what to drink with your Christmas dinner this year? Stone & Wood's Brad Rogers shares his beery plans...
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Lagunitas pale with white peach, prawn and prosciutto salad

December 17, 2010
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It was still a little early in the season so we grilled and lightly smoked our White Peaches — though this works equally well if not better with all juicy fresh peaches! The peaches really compliment the fruit flavours of this APA and who can resist some porker and prawns on the same platter? Lovely relaxed summer...
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Lobethal three-way degustation a winner

December 16, 2010
Photo: Aaron Caruana

The degustation meal is not uncommon at higher end restaurants. The restaurant will design a complimentary and interesting menu of smaller dishes with a flight of wines selected to match with the various food courses served. Sometimes it may even be the other way around with dishes being designed to match a wine. For the recent degustation...
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Beer Masons Asiago Crab Cakes with Lost Abbey Gift of the Magi

December 14, 2010
Beer Masons Asiago Crab Cakes with Lost Abbey Gift of the Magi

This recipe is designed to pair with Lost Abbey Gift of the Magi, a stronger Biere de Garde. It comes with the Beer Masons Summer Pack. Asiago Crab Cakes Serves 4 (or 2 hungry) people. Prep your cold ingredients for this platter first and store in the fridge until you are ready to serve. Get two...
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Christmas and beer

December 7, 2010
Christmas and beer

With the Australians doing so well in the cricket, the ABC Queensland needed to fill in some time today and ran an interview with me about beers for the Christmas table. I got a call from the delightful Georgia Stynes and here are my top-of-the-head recommendations for those Queenslanders who didn’t have a pen...
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Hand made, not home made…

November 4, 2010
Hand made, not home made…

Aaron Caruana visits the ANHC beer dinner and finds that hipsters are brewing it for themselves...
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Revealing the entire beast

October 28, 2010
Revealing the entire beast

The beer choice was appropriately Mountain Goat when Chris Badenoch launched his book about cooking the entire beast last night....
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Careful, Brewer’s Bite

October 8, 2010
Careful, Brewer’s Bite

The worlds of slow food and craft beer have grown steadily over the last few years and it was only a matter of time before the two would meet to join forces. Beer and food matching has been something of a growth area for the craft beer scene but it has been a fairly...
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