How to Pair Food and Beer: A Beginner’s Guide
March 5, 2021
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No longer relegated to football games and sports bars, beer is in its prime. The drink has been growing in popularity for well over a decade in large part because of the explosion of the craft beer scene. In 2019, small and independent brewer sales increased at a rate of 4% and there was more than a 9% increase in brewery openings from 2018 to 2019. But the craft beer industry is more than just numbers it’s also become a hub for creativity.
There has been a shift in the craft beer paradigm in which there is now greater complexity and increased variety within each style of the beverage. According to Darnell Paul, market manager for New York City’s Sloop Brewing Co., this trend has made beer even more well suited to food pairings a subsection of dining that’s historically been dominated by wine lovers.
The Girl & the Fig reopens after weeklong closure over Black Lives Matter mask controversy
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About a week after the Girl & the Fig closed amid backlash over a former employee’s Black Lives Matter mask, the Sonoma restaurant is back open for takeout and outdoor dining.Carlos Avila Gonzalez / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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Kimi Stout wearing her Black Lives Matter face mask says she felt pressured to quit her job at The Girl & The Fig. About a week after the Girl & the Fig closed amid backlash over the former employee’s Black Lives Matter mask, the Sonoma restaurant is back open for takeout and outdoor dining.Carlos Avila Gonzalez/The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
CHRIS DROSNER
For the State Journal
For good reason, the bourbon barrel stout is the apex predator of the craft beer world. Itâs rich and bold, at once complex and utterly unsubtle.
Every brewery knows the cachet these dark dandies have with beer geeks, and many breweries make them. Nearly all are pretty good â the combination of stoutâs chocolate-coffee-dark-fruit and bourbonâs oaky vanilla just works â but remarkably few are great.
A new barrel-aged stout from Oâso Brewing of Plover just joined that latter group.
This should-be hit, called Narcissist, comes just ahead of a major turning point for Oâso. Owners Marc and Katina Buttera have been working to open a new brewery for years, with one setback after another delaying or scuttling plans. Marc Buttera once told me hoped to break ground in 2016 on a new brewery and taproom. That was in 2014.
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