What foods DON'T pair well with beer?

[ImNoExpert]

I see all these "fancy schmancy" beers with food pairing suggestions and to me, it just reeks of pretentiousness. For the life of me, I can't think of any food outside of toothpaste and orange juice that doesn't pair well with any beer, in my mind.

What foods don't pair well with beer (if any)?

 

[Ozarks Mountain Brewery]

cottage cheese

 

[Psylocide]

I see all these "fancy schmancy" beers with food pairing suggestions and to me, it just reeks of pretentiousness. For the life of me, I can't think of any food outside of toothpaste and orange juice that doesn't pair well with any beer, in my mind.

What foods don't pair well with beer (if any)?

Cotton candy?

 

[poptarts]

Cinnamon toast crunch cereal and IPA is a bad bad mix.

 

[drainbamage]

Cotton candy?

Hefeweizen...maybe?

 

[poptarts]

cottage cheese

I like cheese a lot with beer, I wonder what makes this different, I will probably have to try this out.

 

[GilaMinumBeer]

cottage cheese

Disagree. I love cottage cheese. Lightly salted and heavily peppered goes wonderfully with a Dubbel.

 

[GilaMinumBeer]

Cinnamon toast crunch cereal and IPA is a bad bad mix.

Try a Imperial milk stout next time.

 

[Ozarks Mountain Brewery]

I guess I should have said, not with a double ipa lol

 

[GilaMinumBeer]

Cotton candy?

Goes well with the light lagers at the State Fair.

 

[Roadliner]

I see all these "fancy schmancy" beers with food pairing suggestions and to me, it just reeks of pretentiousness. For the life of me, I can't think of any food outside of toothpaste and orange juice that doesn't pair well with any beer, in my mind.

What foods don't pair well with beer (if any)?

I don't think it's so much that they won't pair with beer... so much as how well they do. I can drink a wine with any dinner, but some wines mesh better with particular food.. same with beer.

I can't think of any actual food that beer isn't good with though.

 

[GilaMinumBeer]

I don't think it's so much that they won't pair with beer... so much as how well they do. I can drink a wine with any dinner, but some wines mesh better with particular food.. same with beer.

I can't think of any actual food that beer isn't good with though.

I'd say liver. Nothing is good with liver.

 

[Psylocide]

Goes well with the light lagers at the State Fair.

Bull****.

 

[joshesmusica]

ice cream

 

[ImNoExpert]

cottage cheese

This reminds me of this.

 

[poptarts]

Try a Imperial milk stout next time.

Yea something sweeter would have been a lot better, the bitterness wrecked it.

 

[Roadliner]

ice cream

hell I put ice cream IN beer sometimes lol.

 

[MrFancyPlants]

fried lettuce. Coincidentally, also the only food that doesn't taste better fried.

 

[GilaMinumBeer]

Bull****.

Nope. But only so long as you can drink the light lagers.

 

[GilaMinumBeer]

hell I put ice cream IN beer sometimes lol.

This. Beer floats can be good. Just not with dry stout.

 

[actech]

ice cream

Bryers butter pecan and a mild lager go together nice

 

[flars]

ice cream

Unless it is the new beer flavored ice cream.

 

[actech]

I'd say liver. Nothing is good with liver.

Fishing hooks are THE ONLY thing that goes with liver

 

[GilaMinumBeer]

Fishing hooks are THE ONLY thing that goes with liver

This. Cept' I don't eat fish either.

 

[GuldTuborg]

Can't think of anything. Anything I'd eat has at least some beer that would pair decently well with it.

 

[ajdelange]

Artichokes.

 

[drainbamage]

Durian? I don't know, I've never had durian, but from what I hear the smell would overpower everything else.

 

[GuldTuborg]

Durian? I don't know, I've never had durian, but from what I hear the smell would overpower everything else.

Well, yes, there is stuff like durian, lutefisk, and other odd "foods." But here I'd question whether they are really foods to begin with.

Incidentally, you know why Norwegian dogs lick their own a$$holes, don't you?

 

[normonster]

Rocky Mountain Oysters.

 

[Roadliner]

Rocky Mountain Oysters.

Hmm.. I would almost argue that these require beer.. in copious amounts.

 

[GuldTuborg]

Hmm.. I would almost argue that these require beer.. in copious amounts.

Or you could just put them in your beer and be extra efficient.

 

[ericbw]

I'd say liver. Nothing is good with liver.

That's funny, I was just thinking that chicken liver would go really well with saison. For real.

 

[Roadliner]

Or you could just put them in your beer and be extra efficient.

There is something wrong with some people lol

 

[FloppyKnockers]

The donuts they serve in AA meetings. They ask you to leave if you try to pair them with any beer.

 

[GuldTuborg]

There is something wrong with some people lol

Where do you think the original "nut brown" label came from?

 

[Roadliner]

tree nuts.. that are brown.. that's it.

 

[flars]

Rocky Mountain Oysters.

Leinie's always seemed to be a choice.

 

[ajdelange]

Durian?

The fruit that tastes like heaven and smells like hell, or at least that's what they say. I don't personally agree with either of those. I think the popularity of it is based on its rumored ability to put lead in one's pencil. I find the taste somewhat bland so I don't see why it wouldn't go with beer.

 

[AndytheBeave]

Artichokes.

I gotta disagree with the artichoke comment. Artichokes are wicked on pizza. Are you saying beer doesn't go with pizza? :cross:

How about... ummm this is tough....
oh I know, after eight mints. Mint and beer is a bad combo IMHO

 

[ajdelange]

I gotta disagree with the artichoke comment. Artichokes are wicked on pizza. Are you saying beer doesn't go with pizza?

No. I do put tinned artichoke bits on my pizza and do enjoy beer with it. What I referring to is the way in which a full, fresh (not tinned) artichoke heart changes the taste of anything you eat/drink immediately after it. I definitely don't like the way it changes the taste of beer!