Cheese cake and stout night was the pairing. Cheese cake is not something I would normally make, as it is made from fake cheese, sugar, and cookies, thus clearly fails the "real food test" miserably. Also I dislike fancy cake type things in general, far too finicky for my tastes. But, a friend asked me nicely. Anyway, I got this pairing from The Brewmasters Table, and I am still not all that sure why it works so well, but it does.
The basics for the pairing are there. That is, the impact of the dish and the beer are generally of the same level. The smooth carbonation clears all the fat and sugar of the tongue, which is critical here. Also there is little hop aroma in the style, which would probably interfere with the flavors here. The chocolate sauce on top of the cake matched to toasted malts in the beer as well. But, it still seems like a weird pairing to me for some reason. Still glad the book provided me with yet another good pairing, and as my first serious pairing of desert and beer, I was quite happy with the result.
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