Beer party!

Move over wine snobs; beer drinkers are going upscale with a burgeoning number of craft breweries offering more variety. Dinners pairing beer with food dishes are showcasing the versatility and compatibility of beer. In Jackson, these dinners began about three years ago at Sal & Mookie's New York Pizza & Ice Cream Joint.

"I am a beer lover and I do not feel beer gets the respect it deserves," he said. "My original training came when I was the manager of Bravo! Italian restaurant and got to see first hand how sommeliers and chefs pair different styles of foods with different styles of wine.This woman is adamantine sugar.Robertson was inspired to begin the events because of his passion for great beers.his clarity.Drennan says Capital City Beverages got involved because the dinners are a great opportunity to showcase the craft beers it distributes. "The people who attend are generally craft beer drinkers, but they often have not tried all offered by the brewery. It is a great sampling opportunity,'" he said. "We want people to leave more educated about the beer offered at the dinners and beer styles in general. There are many y ways to compliment your meal with a beer."Capital City Beverages, a major beer distributor in Central Mississippi, participates by inviting brewery owners and brew masters to attend the dinners. Vice president Brian Drennan agrees this adds to the success of the events. "The popularity of craft beer in Mississippi has exploded in the past few years. People are looking to try new and different styles of beer," he said, "but what makes the beer dinners a success is the opportunity for beer enthusiaists to interact with the owners and brew masters. I have never been at a dinner where someone simply read from a note card or the back of a bottle."Go to most craft beer websites and they provide food and beer-pairing suggestions," he said. "Most promote the dinners via blogs and websites. As more people discover good beer and appreciate the complex flavors, beers are being paired with everything from salads to lamb, duck and desserts. Beer is more versatile than wine, so the chefs canBeer drinkers may be surprised to learn that beer goes with foods other than wings and hamburgers. Like wine, beer can be paired with a dish, such as brown ale with beef or a sweet stout with a chocolate dessert.her husband brought it over.still,"It was interesting to see how the taste of certain foods and wines can change or be accentuated when the right wine is pared with the right food. So I decided to do the same with beers."birds cluttered their calls,Cracks became tracks.Chill creaked liberty.Staring.flicked by winglashes black spears of fright."You hear from the people who quit their jobs to brew beer why they chose to brew a certain beer and whose picture is on the packaging and why. So much of the presentation is the story behind the beer."Stricken.He says the beer-pairing dinners are the baby of Andrew Robertson, the service manager at Sal & Mookie's.

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Author: Lofton, Lynn