American Craft Beer The Best Craft Beer, Breweries, Bars, Brewpubs, Beer Stores, And Restaurants Serving Serious Beer.
Molson Coors has enlisted the aid of Master Cicerone Jason Pratt to help with these suggestions so you know they’re not just shooting from the hip
Here’s the deal…
Molson Coors is home to a huge beer family, everything from Miller Lite and Coors Light, to craftier brands like Blue Moon, Terrapin Beer and Leinenkugel’s and popular imports like Pilsner Urquell and Peroni.
So it’s fair to say they’ve a beer to match just about everything on the holiday table.
And to showcase that the right beer pairing can amplify festive food flavors in everything from appetizers to dessert they did a video with Jason Pratt a Master Cicerone who is also Molson Coors’ director of beverage innovations for North America.
“We have this idea in beer and food pairing is that comes down to beer math. One plus one equals three,” Pratt explained to Beer & Beyond “Beer is great by itself. The food is great by itself. When you put the two together, the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.”
Pratt says the key to creating a perfect beer pairing is the three Cs: complement, contrast and cut.
“Complementary flavors are really flavors that are the same in beer and food,” he says. Chocolate, for instance, is a flavor that can show up in beer and in food, and when paired together brings out the best in both.
Contrast, he says, is when “two opposite flavors come together and create the fireworks of a pairing.”
And cut? “What beer can do is actually help to cleanse your palate in between bites. So it lifts fats and oils off your tongue and creates an experience where the second bite of food is as great as the first,” Pratt adds
One of the advantages of being the second largest brewing company in the US is distribution. And all of the beers that Pratt mentions in his pairing video are readily available which we can’t but appreciate at this festive time of year.
###
Want more beer pairing ideas?
We’ve got them…
6 GIRL SCOUT COOKIE AND CRAFT BEER PAIRINGS
