What Beer Goes Good With What Food?

Pairing food and drink is almost an art form. When you think of pairing food with a drink, you most likely think of what wine will go good with whatever it is you are eating. Whether you are having chicken or fish, you probably think white wine. Or red meat you immediately think red wine.

But here is the problem, most guys drink beer! And is seems like more and more women are drinking beer as well. So below is a great list of foods that go great with different types of beer. Weather you are having chicken, steak, turkey, salad, fried foods, etc. We got a beer that will go great with anything on the menu.

So next time you know what you are going to be having for dinner, don’t feel like you are stuck with the same old red or white wine. Check the below list of food and what beers will go great with those foods. Chances are, once you find the perfect beer for that food, you won’t go back to wine! Let the list below guide you to beer and food pairing heaven!

As always, post a comment if there is a beer and food pairing that you love that doesn’t appear below.

From brew-monkey.com:

Dish

Beer

Appetizers:
Fried foods	Pilsner, Pale, IPA, ESB
Soups:
French Onion Soup	Strong red or Brown ale, Scotch ale
Cream soups	Pilsner
Beef Stew or hearty soup	Brown ale or Porter
Salad:
Leafy green salad (cream dressing)	Pilsner
Leafy green salad (vinegar & oil)	Brown ale
Fruit salad	Fruit beer or Wheat beer
Vegetarian:
Falafel	ESB
Grilled asparagus	Stout
Potatoes and onions with garlic	Amber
Grilled portabella mushrooms with guacamole	Brown ale
Garlic mashed potatoes	Brown ale or Porter
Poultry:
Chicken with a brown mushroom gravy	Nut brown ale, or Porter
Fried chicken with white gravy	Marzen, Oktoberfest, Pale, Porter
Chicken Cordon bleu	Marzen
Turkey	Bock, Oktoberfest
Beef and Lamb:
Beef Wellington	Brown ale
Porterhouse steak	Porter
Prime Rib	Brown ale
Herbed lamb	ESB
Roast leg of lamb	Scottish ale, Marzen
Pork:
Pork ribs	Vienna style lager
Roast pork	German Wheat or Marzen
Pork tenderloin	Stout
Seafood:
Crab or lobster	Pilsner or Stout
Shrimp	Wheat, Wit, Pilsner
Spicy shrimp	ESB, Pale
Fish	Wheat, Pilsner
Spicy fish	IPA
Fried seafood	Pale, ESB, IPA
Oysters	Stout
Caviar	American lightly flavored lager
Breakfast: Yes, with breakfast foods – as breakfast food can be eaten anytime of the day.
Eggs	Oatmeal stout
Pancakes	Stout
Sausage	Bock
Dessert:
Chocolate	Chocolate Stout, Oatmeal Stout, Raspberry Stout
Fruit	Belgian or Pilsner
Cheesecake	Porter or Chocolate Stout
Ice cream	Frambois, Sweet or Chocolate Stout, Fruit beer
Miscellaneous:
Pasta	Amber
Pizza	Amber or ESB
Popcorn	Pilsner
Pretzels	Bock
Cajun or spicy	Mexican lager style, Pilsner, Bock
Sushi	Japanese lager
BBQ	Amber, Bock, Dunkel, Rauchbier

By: Chris Love

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The Biden Beer Bomb Drink Recipe
.5 bottle of Sam Adams Cherry Wheat Beer (or beer of your choice. Wheat beer or hefeweizen works best)
1.5 oz. Woodford Reserve Bourbon
.5 oz. Cherry Brandy
.5 oz. simple syrup

Need a frozen beer mug or beer glass, then place bourbon, cherry brandy, and simple syrup in a Boston shaker with ice, and shake until cold. Pour mixture into the bottom of an ice-cold mug, then add beer.

Mix all ingredients into a cooler and enjoy! The pink lemonade hides the terrible taste of the cheap gin and cheap beer… Mix it up, hop skip and get naked!!!

Combine:
3 parts Mickey’s Malt liquor (or any Malt Liquor)
1 part Orange juice

Pour orange juice into Mickey’s Malt Liquor into a pitcher or punch bowl and enjoy the good life!

Also be sure to check out the Original Brass Monkey!

The Beertini, also known as the Red Neck Martini.

All it takes is your favorite light beer, poured into a cold glass, mug or if you are a real classy Redneck, in a Martini Glass. Then throw a couple Martini Olives in there, and pour a little of the olive juice in also. MMmm MMmmm!

40 oz. Malt liquor (Olde English 800, King Cobra, etc.)
Orange Juice

Typically we will drink the 40 oz. down just below the top of the label. Then fill it back up the rest of the way with your choice of orange juice. Cheap, Easy and Good!

Pour about a half glass of beer, drop in the shot of warm Sake and Chug!

Other techniques:

Get the whole table to set up their chopstick on top of the glass of beer (chopsticks at a slight angle). Set the shot glass up on-top of the chopsticks, so that it is barley sitting up on them without falling off. On the count of three, or when everyone yells Sake Bomb. Everybody slam on the table, this will force the chopsticks apart, and the shot will go splashing into the glass, mixing with the beer, Then CHUG! A much more fun way to do it, but a little messier.

Pour the Jim Beam bourbon whiskey into a beer mug filled with Budweiser. Drink up!

Pour Hennessy Cognac into a glass of Heineken, and CHUG!

Pour Hennessy Cognac into a glass of Heineken, and CHUG!

Just like an Irish Car Bomb, pour the whiskey on top of the schnapps in a shot glass, and drop it into a pint of Pabst beer, and GHUG!

Pour beer into a glass, drop the shot of whiskey into the glass and CHUG!

Combine Irish cream and whiskey in a shot glass. Drop shot into a glass of Guinness and CHUG!

3/4 pint Guinness stout
1/2 shot Bailey’s Irish cream
1/2 shot Jameson Irish whiskey

Add the Bailey’s and Jameson to a shot glass, layering the Bailey’s on the bottom. Pour the Guinness into a pint glass or beer mug 3/4 of the way full and let settle. Drop the shot glass into the Guinness and chug. If you don’t drink it fast enough it will curdle and increasingly taste worse, dont let this happen. Looks sick!

Squeeze Lime into 12oz. glass. Add ice cubes and vodka, then fill with ginger beer. Stir and serve.