What beer goes best with soft crabs?
This is Maryland soft crab week, a crustacean celebration that has a number of Baltimore restaurants offering special soft crab dishes.
Details are available from Baltimore's Downtown Partnership.
Hailing from Dodge City, Kan., I am a big fan of soft crabs. Many serious seafood lovers grew up in the Midwest, where we once thought seafood was only fish sticks.
I have even "cleaned" soft crabs, removing their face and lungs. Once you do that, you are not in Kansas anymore.
My question is, what is your favorite beer to sip while enjoying soft crabs?
One for me is Wild Goose IPA, an amiable companion for a soft crab sandwich, topped with slice of tomato, on rye.
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Comments
For soft shells you need a delicate beer so as not to overpower the delicate flavor of the crab, not a hop bomb. I would go local with a Brewers Art Beacon, or "imported" from California with a Laugunitas Censored.
Posted by: David | May 26, 2009 10:55 AM
One vote for Clipper City's Loose Cannon
Posted by: Brad | May 26, 2009 10:56 AM
McHenry.
Posted by: bryanintimonium | May 26, 2009 11:04 AM
Just based on yesterday's lunch- deep fried and battered on light white toast with lettuce, tomato and some dijon, a cold Boh went well.
But this, being Baltimore and all, should have been a given.
Posted by: Chw | May 26, 2009 11:11 AM
The original Cambridge-brewed Wild Goose Amber was specifically formulated, it was said at the time, to go with crabs (thus the original neck label "The only beer for crabs!"). Soft crabs, though, are a bit of a different culinary challenge.
Posted by: Alexander D. Mitchell IV | May 26, 2009 2:17 PM
Avery IPA. Had this with the soft shells at Mari Luna.
Posted by: Elite Elephant Lover | May 26, 2009 4:27 PM