Friday, November 15, 2013

Pairing Beer & Cookies

This is an article in the November/December 2103 issue of Draft magazine.  Beer floats work, so why not beer and cookies.  I would love to dunk my Oreo cookie in a beer :)

If the particular beer listed isn't available in your area, then research the beer you can't get and see what it is similar that you CAN get!  If you have any fun beer cookie pairings, please share in the comments!


Good thing you’re not driving the sleigh.

Oreo cookie + Anderson Valley Bourbon Barrel Stout

Forget milk; this is dunkability. A gorgeous chocolate, vanilla and bourbon-laced brew melds seamlessly with Oreo cocoa/white frosting sweetness, while the cookie’s crunch finds a friend in the dry barrel notes.

Peanut butter cookie + Great Divide Oatmeal Yeti

Peanut butter flavor fits snugly between this oatmeal-smooth imperial stout’s prickly roast and silky chocolate (think Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups). Best of all, the P.B. turns shell-dry in the beer’s ashy finish for an amazingly clean end.

Oatmeal raisin cookie + Verzet Oud Bruin Editie 2013

A zippy, seriously tart Flanders brown bobs and weaves through chewy oatmeal cookies, bringing some much-needed lightness to the mumbleyour- words mouthful. And when the beer’s dark cherry catches the cookie’s raisin? It’s a perfect fruit burst.

Sugar cookie + Arcadia Cereal Killer Barleywine

The mild-mannered sugar cookie is a holiday staple, but bells ring when it’s paired with a burly barleywine. The cookie’s butter and sugar are dessert-perfect companions to the beer’s caramel and cherry; hop bitterness and alcohol warmth clip the pairing to a quiet conclusion.

Pumpkin cookie + Evolution Jacques Au Lantern

Pumpkin cookie and pumpkin beer? Seems like a no-brainer. But what works so well with this particular duo is the way the cookie’s one-note sweet pumpkin flavor bathes in spicy nutmeg and cinnamon bubbles, taking the beer and the cookie to new heights. 

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