Hello everybody, welcome to Drinks Tube. I'm Tim and today we're here at Craft Beer Rising
on Brick Lane, a beer festival that celebrates all that's exciting about the world of beer.
Now in addition to the great beer, there's some fantastic street food inside, so we're
gonna' use this as an opportunity to do some really nice street food and craft beer pairing,
it's gonna' be awesome. God damn that looks good, thank you so much. Right, first up,
we've got this amazing brisket roll from Prairie Fire BBQ. This meats been dry rubbed and then
smoked for sixteen to eighteen hours until it's absolutely falling apart, full of flavour
now we just gotta' find a beer to go with it. Right, to go with my lovely pile of meat,
I've got a lovely American style IPA. Colossus from Beerd Brewery. This is gonna' be very
bitter sweet and tropical fruity. It's gonna' be spicy and sweet and smokey and lovely and
lush. When you do beer and food pairing, the idea is. Take a bite, take a sip, take another
bite with a little bit of the beer left in your mouth. Let the flavours mingle and always
bare in mind that if you've got intense food or intense beer they need to be equal in terms
of the flavour impact that they have. Yeah, when you get a bit of that juicy hot flavour
in your mouth along with a bit of the beef, it sort of brings the beef into focus a bit more.
It cleans up the rough edges and the bitterness almost resets your palate. It's mouthwatering
that juiciness it has, I need a napkin. Next up, we've got a Chilli Cheese Dosa from the
Dosa Deli. Now a Dosa's kind of like an Indian crepe, and on the inside it's got some paneer
cheese with some tamarind sauce. On the side is some crispy bhel puri and a coconut chutney
it's gonna' be creamy and tangy and spicy all at once, it's gonna' be really fun to
have with a good beer. I'm going for something slightly off piste, i'm having a sour beer.
This is a Berlinerweisse, a young, fresh, sour beer from The Celt Experience, in this
case brewed with gooseberries and a little bit of lemon thyme. That is really amazing.
When you drink the beer and you go for the dosa, it seems to sort of bring out a fruitiness
in the beer that you didn't notice before. It dampens those herbal flavours and also
because of the tamarind in the dosa that sourness sort of down plays the sourness in here by
contrast as well, and what you get is a orange flavour that you don't notice before that
acidity really just lifts all the spices off the palate and it's like, it's like you start
to notice things that are in the dosa that you don't notice and that's one of my favourite
things that you find in food and beer pairing. It's when the beer and the food together improve
upon each other. I love that. Now I've never had a sour beer with this kind of food before,
and I've gotta' say, it's amazing, it really works so the next time you get yourself a
nice aromatic rich Indian curry like this go for a Berlinerweisse or something that's
similarly fresh and sour, it's really a great pairing. Finally, I've got a fabulous cheese
dog from Fleisch Mob. All it is, is a delicious smoked German sausage, studded with bits of
emmental cheese. It's classic beer festival food, Ive got something really special in
mind to have with it. The white IPA from Redwell in Norwich, which has some of that lovely
sort of spicy fruity flavour that you get from a German Witbier yeast, but it's also
got the punch from lovely aromatic American hops. Lovely, the sausage is quite salty
because of all that cheese, that salt sort of mellows out that bitterness in that
beer so it actually becomes by contrast more like a basic wheat beer, It's still very fruity
and plenty in sense but that salty note, it really just brings them both together, it's
like, it's like the beer and the sauce just hugging each other and it's a big sausage,
beer love in. So if you're having a nice salty sausage supper like this at home. You could
really go either way with this pairing. Both an American IPA or a classic German wheat beer
will be great. As long as they've got that nice fruity sweetness underneath it all. But
if you can find a nice wheat IPA like this. It's the best of both worlds, the perfect
match. That was delicious, I hope i've shown you there are fascinating things you can do
when street foods and craft beer comes together. If you're in the mood for something a bit
more up market click here to see me discuss fine French dining and American craft beer.
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