Microbrewery Fridays - Jonas Follonier
More and more restaurants are offering an interesting choice of beers, responding to a growing demand from customers to accompany their meal with beer. And not wine. A small gastronomic revolution.
You've probably experienced it yourself a few times when eating out with family or friends. «Why not try a beer?» It's true, why limit yourself to the admittedly infinite world of wine when it comes to accompanying dishes, from meat to fish, savory or sweet, aperitif to cheese, gourmet cuisine to brasserie fare?
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That's what more and more people are thinking - not statistics, just experience and hearsay, sources of knowledge as respectable as numbers, which can say anything and everything. This change in practice is easily explained by the phenomenon of craft beers, which we've decided to take seriously by telling you about every Friday. It's a phenomenon that has the merit of restoring beer's richness of flavour, and highlighting the magic that surrounds its production.
This little gastronomic novelty, beyond the fact that it's easy to explain, is to be welcomed. Far from competing with wine, beer also has gastronomic virtues. It already has a quality that makes it complementary to wine: like champagne, beer is a carbonated beverage. Bubbles can dramatically change the way you enjoy smoked trout, for example. Another obvious characteristic is bitterness, which is virtually absent from wine.
The game of contrasts in the realm of tastes has been strengthened by the arrival of a newcomer. Once reserved for the boozy, then accepted as an aperitif to the point of becoming a favorite guest, the hop-flavored dive beverage has undergone a process of debauching, much to our delight. Once a redneck, now chic, beer doesn't have to play into the hands of a trendy elite who swear by novelty. Let's embrace it as one of the many beverages that make up a successful meal.
Write to the author: jonas.follonier@leregardlibre.com
To find out more:
https://www.gaultmillau.ch/fr/le-bar/la-biere-pour-accompagner-vos-meilleurs-repas
https://www.lepoint.fr/vin/guides/la-biere-a-table-03-07-2014-1842936_585.php
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