Read on known some of the best beer-food parings for holidays.

The holiday season is here, which means life is all about flexing beer, multi-courses and exotic meals. Earlier, no one used to care about beer-food pairing. There was zero awareness on the types of beers and food goes well together. Actually, Craft brewing renaissance is responsible for changing the way people used to look at drinking beer. And, the beer-food pairing is even more important during festivals and holidays. So, here are some best beer options for the main holiday foods.  

The Best Beer-Food Pairings for Holidays

A) Meats

When planning to celebrate any holiday or festival, we can never forget to include some nice meat dishes. Meat dishes are usually accompanied with some compatible beer options. Well, we recommend:  

1. Saison du Pont or Chimay Red + Sirloin steak

2. Schneider Aventinus or Amber Ale like New Belgium Fat Tire + Pork Chop's lighter meat

3. Theakston Old Peculiar Ale or Brooklyn Brown Ale + Glazed ham

B) Seafood

Outlined below are some of the best seafood-beer pairings that can opt to serve during festivals and holidays. Your family and guests will surely appreciate these seafood-beer combinations.

1. Troeg's Troegenator or Sam Adams' Double Bock + Grilled tuna

2. Bink Blonde Hoppy Golden Ale or Birra del Borgo ReAle + Fried fish and chips

C) Cheeses

Cheese is undoubtedly one of the most important foods of any festival and holiday celebrations. Although, people generally prefer wine with cheese, there are many beer options that can be selected to be a better combination. Further, beer also helps in exfoliating the effect of fatty Cheese. So, we recommend these below mentioned beer options for your cheese servings:

1. Avery White Rascal or Allagash White + Fresh mozzarella

2. Russian River's Pliney the Elder or Dogfish Head 90 Minute IPA + Sharp aged cheddar

3. Thomas Hardy's Ale or Deschutes Abyss + Roquefort or a big stinky bleu

D) Shellfish

A perfect holiday or festival dinner must include the right amount of fishes. And the best option to please each and every guest would be to serve simple and delicious shellfish. Below mentioned are the perfect beer-shellfish pairing:

1. Stout like Murphy's or Guinness + Thick, rich soupy New England clam chowder

2. Heineken or Yuengling Lager + Lobster

E) Chocolate

Chocolate is again one of the main foods served during holidays and festivals. There are different types of chocolates such as pure chocolate bars, rich chocolate cakes and chocolate candies. However, the most widely preferred wine choices for all these chocolate options would be a dark roasty imperial stout. We recommend:

1. Try Ten FIDY from Oskar Blues or Chicory Stout from Dogfish Head + Any type of Chocolate

All these above mentioned recommendations are some of the best beer-food parings for holidays. We hope you have a great beer-food tasting this time. Cheers and happy holidays!

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