This week I welcome Mirella Amato to discuss how you can best pair Beer and foods for a great dining experience!
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Topics in This Week’s Episode (52:57)
- This week I welcome Mirella Amato. Mirella is a BJCP National Beer Judge and one of the few Master Cicerones. She is also author of the book Beerology and has a new online course titled Mastering Beer and Food Pairing.
- We discuss some of the projects Mirella has been working on in the few years since I last had her on the show.
- She introduces beer and food pairing and we discuss the four basic principles of pairing a food with a beer.
Wt first discuss flavor and how flavors can be matching or complementary and also the concept of building bridges between food and beer. - Mirella talks about intensity with the rule of thumb being to match intensity between a food and a beer.
- We talk about taste, which focuses on the basic tastes your tongue can detect.
- Next we discuss texture and how the texture of food and beer can affect a pairing.
- Mirella explains how to pair a food with a beer like a Flanders Red.
- Next we talk about how to go the other way and find a beer that works with a particular food.
- She explains how to pair beer and foods for different courses to build and entire meal of food and beer pairings.
- We talk about Mirella’s course (linked above) where she explains in detail how to best pair food and beer with many examples.
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