One of my favorite food and beverage pairings of all time is beer and cheese. While the combination of wine and cheese has received much attention over the years, I would maintain that beer is more suited for cheese than wine. When pairing wine with cheese, I tend to go with a high acid white wine, since the acidity will cut the buttery, palette coating qualities of cheese. With beer, the carbonation performs this function, as will hops bitterness. Perhaps I am biased, but I find beer to be much more versatile paired with most foods, particularly with cheese. Let’s check out a few Northwest cheeses and some beers to go with them. more ›

Periodically a stabbing at your frontal lobe will occur in the form of events throughout the year. It's appropriate with the weather being deplorable that Hump Day (Wednesday) be the day of choice this week. more ›

For those of you that are info Top Chef, you can check out the full review of last night's episode on Chicagoist. We were excited to see that beer had the spotlight for part of the show, but it was sad to see it was done in such a sell-out, corporate fashion. Check out the embedded clip for the ten-minute Quickfire Challenge (you can forward to the 3:45 mark). more ›