Catch, fish: which beer goes best with fish dishes?

Fish is probably the most popular appetizer for beer. People drank beer with taranka and wobla back in the days when there were no garlic croutons or onion rings on the cafe menu. Today the assortment of fish dishes for beer has become wider than before, so it has become more difficult to choose — not any fish is suitable for beer, and vice versa. Let’s find out what gastronomic combinations with beer are considered the most successful.

General rules

If you do not want to delve into varieties and directions, you can use these universal recommendations:

— light beer without bitterness goes well with white fish;

— white smoked fish will be even tastier when paired with a strong light beer with moderate bitterness;

— seafood — crabs, shrimps, lobsters — are better with light, slightly sweet beer;

— spicy and savory fish dishes can be accompanied by dark hoped beer with a pronounced bitterness.

More about styles

Let’s talk more about which styles and trends pair best with specific fish dishes.

Dark types of beer — for example, porter, Belgian strong dark ale — are best paired with cold-smoked red fish, preferably not very salty. This can be pink salmon, chum salmon, salmon.

Belgian wheat beer will make an excellent tandem with smoked salmon or capelin — a rather fatty fish with a mild flavor.

Mackerel, halibut, sea bass dishes will harmoniously complement light varieties of beer, in particular, various lagers.

The most universal beer pairing for fish is a variety of ales, including Belgian ales. They go well with almost any fish dishes, especially with fatty soft hot-smoked fish — mackerel, salmon, perch. In some cases, kriek and lambic also go well with it.

You can try quality beer and tasty appetizers to it in Brasserie Lambic network. The menu of our beer restaurants includes hundreds of quality beers from Belgium and other countries of the world, as well as many other dishes and drinks for every taste. Come and we will find something to surprise you!

Date : 26 October

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