Beer Radar

I enjoyed a nice home-cooked meal last night: spaghetti & meatballs. (Only, in my house, it was rice pasta & turkey meat balls.)

Anyway, Mrs. Sixpack kicked things off with a nice, light salad - a course that I’d usually pair with a saison or light lager. We had a bottle of Jumilla on the table to go with the spaghetti, but that wasn’t floating my boat. And I was too damn lazy to run downstairs to the beer fridge. So I pulled out the one bottle I had upstairs: Heavy Seas Below Decks barleywine.

I know, I know - barleywine with the first course is a bit over the top, especially when it’s 90 degrees outside. I mean, where do you go from there?

I should mention that this salad was topped with a few pieces of freshly grilled radicchio, because that’s what made this pairing work like a dream. The bitter spiciness of the leafy veggie matched perfectly with the bitterness of the barleywine.

Not looking to bore you with the details of last night’s dinner here… just wanted to offer a heads up to a food-pairing that you might not ever consider. Barleywine & a salad of greens - who knew?

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