Beer with tomatoes
I love beer, and I love homegrown tomatoes. This time of year I have plenty of both.
However, I have not considered putting them together as a culinary twosome.
Great Lakes Brewing Co. in Cleveland has thought of this pairing.
Next week it is having a beer dinner matching its beers with tomatoes.
Here are some of the pairings.
Coconut shrimp with diced tomatoes paired with its Oktoberfest.
Smoked tomato with roasted garlic and basil matched with its Nosferatu, a highly hopped ale.
Heirloom tomato stuffed with mozzarella matched with its Pale Ale.
Anybody else try matching beers with tomatoes?
Got any winners?
Photo: Los Angeles Times
Comments
Miller High Life and Cheese Pizza.
Posted by: JTK | September 11, 2009 3:47 PM
Rob!! Remember us? Mamma Mia Pizza Beer! That's what it is all about.. Made Pizza Beer Pizza Crusts today & in our sauce, mixed in sangria, paired it with the pizza beer......
Posted by: Tom Seefurth | September 11, 2009 7:05 PM
One of the better beer dinners in which I've been involved was a Tomato Harvest Dinner at Cafe St. Ex in Washington, D.C., in October of 2005. Then Chef Barton Seaver created a 5 course dinner utilizing heirloom tomatoes creatively in each. The last course was tomato-basil ice cream. It worked. Really!
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Posted by: Thomas Cizauskas | September 12, 2009 11:10 AM
Beer and tomatos are not bad but beer and ice cream...
http://www.9news.com/news/watercooler/article.aspx?storyid=123270&catid=337
Posted by: Rusty | September 15, 2009 8:28 AM
A good porter and vanilla make for an excellent black cow.
Back to tomatoes: Marinate your tomatoes in beer, serve on salad or top a pizza with them. Cherry tomatoes are especially good this way. We also do it with apples & make apple pie pizza
Posted by: tom seefurth | September 17, 2009 7:37 AM
Rusty- a homemade ice cream shop in our town makes a Belgian Ale ice cream for a festival every year, and it is delicious.
Posted by: It's Me | September 17, 2009 9:40 AM