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.
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Russian-made cider Eden Sin: from the Volga region with love!
Cider is an excellent compromise for those who come to a beer restaurant but do not like classic foam. The delicate, soft, sweetish flavor, which is more like a fruit beer than a beer, leaves almost no one indifferent. There are many worthy representatives in the cider family, and today we will talk about one of them — cider of Russian production Eden Sin. Interesting facts Eden Sin is a product of the Russian company Rebel Apple. Its creator, Alexander Ionov, started making cider in 2015, and at first it was a home production. The trademark appeared later, in 2018, and a year later the cidery got its own building in Moscow. Now Rebel Apple is the only full-cycle craft cidery in the capital. One of the flagship varieties of Rebel Apple is considered to be Eden Sin — a sparkling unleavened unfiltered French-style apple cider. It is produced from apples grown in the orchards of the central Volga region. Thanks to a special production technology all natural sweetness of ripe fruits is preserved in the drink, which makes Eden Sin one of the most unique varieties on the Russian market. Main characteristics Eden Sin cider has a beautiful light golden color and expressively fruity taste, soft and at the same time rich, with a long pleasant aftertaste. The aroma of the drink has tones of winter and autumn apples, notes of yeast and baked goods with apple filling. Eden Sin goes well with sweet dishes and baked goods. It can also be served with European dishes, salads, cheeses, and a variety of appetizers. You can try Eden Sin and other cider varieties in the chain of Belgian brasseries Lambic. The menu of our beer restaurants includes a huge choice of beer and other alcoholic drinks. We also offer a wide range of Belgian dishes and popular European appetizers. We always have a cozy atmosphere, excellent service and comfortable prices — come, you will definitely like it!
26 October 2024
Myth or reality: can beer make you fat?
Everyone has heard at least once about the so-called «beer belly» — extra centimeters on the waist, which allegedly appear from drinking beer. The reputation of beer is spoiled by the fact that in many countries it is called «liquid bread» because of the cereals in its composition. Not surprisingly, many people believe that beer makes you fat, so it is better to completely eliminate it from your life in order not to get fat. Let’s see if this is true and how much beer can really affect the figure. Just the facts Modern nutritionists and fitness trainers in one voice say: a person can get fat only from excess calories. It does not matter what he eats — harmful or healthy food. If you regularly exceed calories, the weight will steadily grow. This does not mean that you can massively switch to fast food. Useful and varied food is necessary to get from food necessary for health micro and macronutrients. That is, vitamins and minerals in the first case and proteins, fats, carbohydrates — in the second. It turns out that by themselves conditionally «harmful» products, including alcohol, are not able to add extra centimeters in the waist. Can beer make you fat? In fact, beer is a low-calorie drink. Its energy value averages 40-45 calories per 100 grams. For comparison, 100 grams of freshly squeezed juice contains more than 50 calories. As for carbohydrates — the most dangerous nutrients for the figure — they in beer, despite the «cereal» composition, also contains a little — about 3.5 grams. A 200-gram portion of pasta contains almost 50 grams of carbohydrates — that is, you need to drink several glasses of beer to get close to this amount. The myth that beer makes people fat is most likely due to the fact that various fatty appetizers are usually ordered with beer. Onion and squid rings in batter, garlic croutons, fried wings — all these are really caloric food, and with excessive consumption it is very easy to exceed your daily norm. But if you drink beer without appetizers or order to it, for example, a salad, you can significantly reduce the calorie content of the meal. For quality beer and tasty food — to the chain of Belgian brasseries Lambic! The menu of our beer restaurants includes hundreds of beers from all over the world, as well as a wide choice of dishes for every taste — both hearty and low-calorie. Come and taste!
26 October 2024