Beer Test #3 Answers

Beer Test 3 * (Aug 16, 2011)   (answers are in blue)

1.  Name 3 examples of the following beer styles on our beer list, and suggest 1 food/beer pairing for each style.

• IPA-  (draft) Avery IPA; (Bottle) Odell IPA(12 oz) , Il Vicino Wet Mnt. IPA (12 oz), Great Divide Rumble Oaked IPA (12 oz); (DIPA) (draft) Great Divide Hercules (8 oz), (Bottle/can) Oskar Blues G'Knight Imperial Red (12 oz), Great Divide 17th Anniversary Oak Aged DIPA (22 oz), Dry Dock DIPA (22 oz)........Successful pairings would have been dishes such as sausages, brat burger, tomato salad, grilled cheese sandwich, Chicken Sandwich.

• Wheat-  (draft) Dry Dock Hefeweizen (16 oz), Boulevard Zon Belgian Wit (16 oz); (bottle) Ayinger Brauweisse (12 oz), Schneider Aventinus Dopplebock Wheat (500 mL), The Bruery Orchard White Belgian Wit (750mL/25.4 oz) ....... Successful Pairings would have been dishes such as Cauliflower Salad, Itsy Bitsy Fishwich, Chicken Schnitzel Sandwich, Mussels, Camembert Grilled Cheese, Oysters and Gingered Vegis

• Belgian Tripels-  (draft) Victory Golden Monkey Belgian Tripel (8 oz); (bottle) Unibroe La Fin du Monde(12 oz), St. Martin Triple (750 mL) Piraat Belgian Tripel (11.2 oz)........ Successful Pairings would be dishes like Mussels, Grilled Cheese, Triple Decker Chicken Sandwich, and Veal Schnitzel.  

• Belgian Quads-  (bottle) Gulden Draak Belgian Quad (11.2 oz and 750mL), Avery Reverend Belgian Quad (22 oz).....Great Food Pairings would be Oyster Po'Boy, Chicken and Waffles, Ice Cream Sandwich, Poutines

• ‘Light beers’- (draft) Steamworks Kolsch (16oz), Avery Joe's Pilsner (16 oz) (bottle) Miller Lite (12 oz) Miller High Life (24 oz tall boy can)  Lagunitas Pilsner (12 oz) Sunner Kolsch (16.9 oz) ...... Successful Pairings would be items such as Chicken Sandwich, Gingered Vegis, Veal Schnitzel, Scallops, Sausages, Brat Burger.

• Sours-  (bottle) Duchesse de Borgogne Flemish Sour (11.2 oz) Russian River Consecration (375mL), Russian River Supplication (375 mL), Petrus Aged Pale (11.2 oz) Apple and Faro Lambic (375 mL), Echt Kreikenbier (11.2 oz) and Drie Fonteinen Oude Gueuze (375 mL) .......... Successful Pairings would be dishes such as Foie Gras, Sausages, Oyster Po'Boy, Grilled Cheese Sandwich

2.  Give an alternative for the following beers: draft and/or bottle/can.

• Guinness- Ohara's Dry Irish Stout if they want a Dry Irish Stout. Left Hand Milk Stout or Young's Double Chocolate Stout if they want a stout served on Nitro, or Lion Stout if they are looking to try a very well made stout that they have never tried before.
• New Belgium Fat Tire- Odell Levity on draft, Left Hand Sawtooth ESB and Del Norte Manana Mexican Amber in bottle. Sam Smith Old Style Pale in a bottle if they want the amber color but enjoy British Pale Ales.  Old Speckled Hen is also an option but is served on Nitro out the can.  
• Coors Light- We offer Steamworks Kolsch and Joe's Pilsner on draft and Lagunitas  Pils and Sunner Kolsch in bottle for people that want something supremely refreshing.  As a last resort, we also offer Miller Lite in bottle and Miller High Life tall boy cans (24 oz)  
• Corona- We offer two mexican style lagers, one light like Corona ... Del Norte Orale, and one amber, Del Norte Manana.
• New Castle-   Borgogne de Flanders Brown, Tilburg Dutch Brown in bottle, or possibly Deschutes Black Butte Porter on draft.
• New Belgium Sunshine Wheat-  I would suggest Dry Dock Hefe, Boulevard Zon or Wheat, or possibly introduce them to our proprietary Berlinerweisse for drafts, or Ayinger Brauweisse or The Bruery Orchard White in bottle.

3. What are the main ingredients in beer?   Malt, Hops, Water, and Yeast.

4. What are the flavor difference between a German Hefeweisse, a Belgian Witbier and an American Wheat?

German Hefeweizen tend to have a distinct banana and clove aroma and flavors while, 

Belgian Wit beers tend to have more aromas and flavors of citrus and coriander and,

American Wheat beers have the overall wheat cloudiness, mouthfeel and general flavor while it loses the distinct Belgian or German yeast characteristics.  It will be more mellow or subdued in flavor then either Belgian or German styles.