Beer Dinner
I’m going to have a beer dinner soon. I want to try to introduce some friends to some good beer. What better way to do it that to offer to feed them and ply them with said tasty beer. I have been doing some research on a menu and tried it out. I am on a real hoppy and bitter beer kick at the moment so that has mostly guided the meal.
The meal kicks off with a dish called Montgomery’s ‘Melting Moment’ which I got from the Cheese Slices tv show. It’s basically a grilled cheese sandwich using cloth bound English cheddar some leek and onions. Pair that with an IPA I have fermenting at the moment that is inspired by and hopefully half as good as Pliny. It came out really well tonight except that I needed to use a denser bread to hold it together. I also need to make smaller serves as it was a meal in it’s self. Tonight I had it with Flying Dog Raging Bitch. A great beer by the way. Although not a typical IPA it worked well and cut right through the strong cloth bound aged cheese.
For the main course I am going with a recipe I found via Flying Dog. The recipe is Grilled Ground Lamb Skewers, Couscous Salad, and Cucumber Yogurt Sauce. It’s the sixth course in this beer dinner. I made a smaller version for two of us and it came out great. Only thing I am going to add is a little extra salt to the lamb to bring out the flavours. Other than that it was excellent. This course I am going to team with the 5l keg of Yellow Snow IPA I acquired recently. I had it with an ordinary IPA of mine tonight and it worked really well so it should be awesome with a good IPA.
The dessert didn’t get tested tonight as I am waiting to get the recipe from a friend. It sounds amazing though. It is a chocolate stout cake with peanut butter icing. I’m going to make it with my own stout. Once I taste it I wil decide if I am going to serve it with my stout or with a black double IPA I have brewing at the moment. Either way it sounds like an awesome cake. Hopefully that can convince someone to keep drinking good beer. Would be nice to get a convert from the night.