The food and beer list

This is by no means a complete list or set in stone. These are jsut some of my ideas that I have worked out. Take it with a grain of.. barley and enjoy!

Soups

Beef vegetable
English brown ale or porter

Lobster bisque
Kölsch

Cream soups
Hoppy pilsner

Minestrone
Vienna lager

French onion
Scotch ale

Mulligatawny
British-style pale ale

Fruits and salads
Fruit salad
German-style Hefeweizen

Green salad w/cream dressing
Pilsner

Green salad w/ vinaigrette
Hoppy brown ale

Red Meats
Buffalo
Porter

Roast beef
British-style pale ale

Beef teriyaki
Cream ale

Roast beef w/gravy
Scottish ale

Carbonade of beef
Flemish brown ale

Roast leg of lamb
Scottish ale

Hearty beef stew

Robust brown ale or Scottish ale

Steak
British-style pale ale

Hamburger
Amber ale styles

Chicken Cordon Bleu
Märzen

Pork ribs w/barbecue sauce
Vienna lager

Chicken Kiev
Bohemian pilsner

Roast chicken
Dunkel lager

Fish and Seafood

Barbecued salmon
Dunkel lager or dry bock
Raw oysters
Stout
Cajun-style shellfish
Best bitter

Smoked salmon
Dry stout
Grilled or broiled whitefish
Bohemian or German pilsner

Steamed mussels and clams
The same beer as used for steaming

Lobster or crab
Stout or Bohemian pilsner


Cheese omelets
Weizen or best bitter Farmer’s breakfast
Oatmeal stout
Eggs Benedict
Weizen Scrambled eggs
Belgian-style wheat beer

Deserts

Bananas Foster
Weizen Flourless

chocolate cake
Imperial stout

Cherry pie
Kriek

Lemon meringue pie
American wheat ale or weizen

Chocolate cheesecake
Scotch ale
Plain Belgian chocolate
Belgian abbey ale

Chocolate pudding cake
Sweet stout or barley wine

Raspberries Crumble
Raspberry wheat beer

Chocolate pudding or mousse
Oatmeal stout

Trifle
Strong fruit ale

Christmas pudding
Strong, spiced ale

Cheese

Canadian cheddar
Best bitter

French Brie
Dry stout
Cream cheese w/pepper
German pilsner

Limburger
Doppelbock

Edam
Wheat ale

Smoked Gruyère
Rauchbier

Danish blue cheese
Dry stout

Stilton
Barley wine or old ale

HOPPY EASTER #25

Well Its after Easter but Hoppy Easter any how
Yes I tried the pizza beer and I would say its.. its.. umm..

Did you listen to the podcast? Then I think you know LOL
My Beer Advocate Review

Any way I do not have the food paring list but I will get it up as soon as I get it put together.
We are still looking for people to call us or contact us so we can put you on the air

email us at
murphyspubcast@yahoo.com
You can be part of the madness!

Happy St. Patricks Day!

Just a nice note to say

HAPPY ST' PATRICKS DAY!

Binny's Blackie's and Burning Down the House #24

Ok so I learned a lesson this week. Don't try to roast a chicken near a very sensitive smoke detector while doing a podcast.

Any way Pubcast #24 Is up and running. We visit Binny's in the South Loop. Its a great place to go and well worth the ride in to check it out.
They have a tasting bar!!!

The place is awesome!
Binny's Locations Gives you a list of the stores. Sadly the places do not have their own websites.

Anyway!

Dave we had a great time down at the South loop store and Yes we will go once more.


Also we went to Boston Blackies I don't have a website for them but the one we went is at 164 E Grand Ave, Chicago. The place is great, Has that old gangster feel and with all the old movie pictures and what not around you feel as if you are in an old speak easy

If you get a chance go they have GREAT burgers

Thanks for listening and you know you can email me any time we are looking for guests now to do phone interviews with

We're BACK!! #23

Well we survived the DEATH FLU and now we are back with a new episode

I was going to fill this space with lots of news but you know what I'll fill it with links to the news and breweries

One thing I do want to say is I met some more interesting people that The Lodge in Lise this week. I tell you it so nice to sit and have great beers and talk to really interesting people about beer.

I'd like to say Hell o to Tim Mareau. I talked to him at The Lodge. Nice guy and full of all kinds of beer .. I mean beer Knowledge. He's met some interesting people and has some great stories to tell. You get a chance to meet him say hello and sit a spell and have a chat with him.

Ok time for a full list of Beer News links and Breweries

Craft Brew sales up 12%! WOO HOO!

New Craft Beer Drinker crowned

Pizza beer? You decide

Miler Lite Craft Beer.. Umm ok sure

Thanks to Beer Advocate for those news links

Now for the Breweries we discussed

Anchor Brewery
Great beers and the Godfather of Craft beer

Bell's Brewery
A hero of mine for sticking it to the MAN!

Great Lakes
Great Lakes and great beers what more can you say except enjoy!

Magic Hat
The Magic is in their minds, hands, and beers

Left Hand Brewery
This is a case of you had better know what the left hand is doing because you may miss out on great beer!

Thanks for coming I hope you enjoyed it all

Being an advocate for Beer #22

Well this week we spent some time talking to people about beer and peer places and the wife and I thought maybe we can to a little pubcast on how to be a beer advocate. There is a great site Beer Advocate That is all about beer. We share some of our experiences with talking to people about beer.

Also how to not be a beer jerk, or a beer snob because in all honesty that turns people off.

I'd like to say hi to Matt and Katie as well as Harry and our old Friend Q-ball.. Met all these nice people at The Bavarian Lodge in Lisle ,which has a new look on their website.

There will be some pictures here later once I get them downloaded.

The new beer we tried this week is Floris Apple from the makers of Delirium beers
Brouwerij Huyghe in Belgium

Oh you know one things I forget to give in all this time was the link to my reviews on Beer Advocate. Murphy's Reviews I am under the name, Taelec on there I'll put the link on the side bar as well.

Even you can age beer #21

Well another week and another topic has come by my way. Aging beers. Now if you have a nice house with a great beer cellar than you are probably already in the know about how to age beer.
But if you live in an apartment and have no cellar never fear you are not out of luck. We have a some tips on the pubcast #21 You too can age beer. I'll have some notes here and a link to a great site about aging beer, down to the chemistry involved.

Aging beer is a great way to take a really good beer and make it even better. Aging lets the beer flavors mellow, mingle, and mix to achive some really astounding tastes and depth of character. A few pubcast ago I had talked about aging a beer accidentally. It was an Edmund Fitzgerald from Great Lakes.pubcast #11 I had left it in a fridge for about a year and I tell you there was a big difference. the beer had a richer more complex taste to it. I like the beer but this was even better than fresh. There are some beers that should be fresh but we are not worried about those. We are thinking about beers you can age.

When you want to ager a beer. In a cellar or in a beer fridge you should consider a few things.

1st and foremost is get a quality beer. Not some mass produced low grade swill but a good solid beer from a reputable and good or excellent brewer.

2nd Decide what kind you would like to age or if you can pick one style get a varity of what you like and experiment. Look for beers with big taste like an Imperial IPA or a a good Barleywine. Belgium strongs both light and dark. You get the idea.

3rd check out the ABV% higher the better for the most part. You really don't want to age a beer that is under 5-6% they jsut won't last the time you need to develope those tastes. A good idea is to star with 10% and up but that 7-9% range can work. Try them out and see how it goes.

4th Place to age. If you have the cellar you want a nice cool dark out of the way place where the beer can sit and develope. Store them up right and let nature take its course. Stay away from places taht have a wild range of temps. You do not want it too cold the beer chemistry will not take place. Too warm and you spoil the beer. There is lots of thought on the temperature range but I think a good rule of thumb is around 45- 55 degrees F. If you do not have the cellar get yourself a spare fridge. Get a good thermometer set you fridge up and get it to that nice stable temp range and then filler up. Though with a fridge corked bottles are not really a good idea. A fridge is a very dry place and that could ruin your corks and lead to spoilage. If you want and can afford the wine fridge go for that. It keeps the inside more humid so corks don't dry out. Again store up right as much as possible.


So you see it is possible to age in an apartment if you give it some thought and figure out what you want to do. The one draw back of course is you limit your aging stock if you can only get a small fridge. Although it is worth the effort and it gives you a great place to experiment.

Oh one more thing about aging. PUT THE DATE ON YOUR BEER! it helps to know how long its been in there :)

What we are aging.
Bells 3rd coast Old Ale
Hop Wallop
Edmund Fizgerald from
Duvval
3 Philosophers
North Coast Old Stock Ale
Bells Two Hearted


All that aside don't forget the

Wife's birthday is Feb. 14th

... I'm going to have to get her Something nice.. maybe beer.


Ok links time

The Brew Basement This guy know his beer aging. Check out all the information

Oy Sinebrychoff Ab Makers of the Porter I tried this week

Kerry Piper Not a beer bar so to say but a great place to go and have a good time

So thanks for coming by we will see you in a week!

EDIT

This was sent to me by a listener. He as a lot of great ideas here and the invention is pretty cool too.

Some tips on laying beer down for storage…

1. You are right; you don't actually lay it on its side. Keep itstanding upright, this will compact the yeast on the bottom of thebottle.

2. If you will be keeping the beer a long time you may want to dip thecap in Wax. Over a long time O2 can leak in around the cap or throughthe cork, oxidizing the beer. Regular candle wax will work, but mosthomebrew shops have the good wax like they use on wine bottles.

3. Refrigerators cycle temperatures that are how they do the frostfree trick. So it is a good idea to insolate the bottles in the fridge. That way the bottles do not swing in temperature as much as the air in the fridge. Even just a beer cozy will help.

I have invented a little part used in long term storage of fermented beverages inCornelius kegs www.kegpasties.com

Thanks Jeff!