Try pairing dark, dense chocolate desserts with the dry bitterness of darker beers like stouts and porters.
Or sip a European-style pilsner with Asian cuisine.

It’s commonplace today to read about foods that pair with wine and other spirits, but there are just some foods
that pair far better with beer. For example:

– Artichokes are a classic wine-pairing conundrum, making wines appear sweet and bland. Try a hoppier beer
with a wonderful bracing bitterness such as an English-style pale ale, which will maintain the perfect balance.

– The tangy, spicy and smokey flavors of BBQ are difficult to pair with wine and spirits. But these characteristics share
the same as the toasted and caramelized malts of an American-style dark lager, an Irish Red or an Oktoberfest-style
lager. Plus, beer doesn’t mind if you get your fingers messy.

Anheuser-Busch brewmasters Nathaniel Davis and Jill Vaughn are experts when it comes to matching palates with
beer styles and foods. If you would be interested in talking briefly with one of them, I’d be happy to arrange it for you.
Please let me know if you would like additional tips, recipes or photos.

Thanks, again, for your time and consideration.

Mary McHugh
314/822-0682

Thanks for posting the letter; it is always interesting to see actual correspondence from historic times. I enjoyed a book “Galileo’s Daughter” (?) wherein the author included a series of letters sent to Galileo by – you guessed it – his daughter. From her detailed letters we can piece together a great portion of his letters to her (which are assumed burned by the head of the convent – his being labeled a heretic and all.)

“Mr McCain sees trade agreements as a means of increasing the nation’s riches, Mr Obama sees trade agreements as tools that can both empower individuals and help our trade partners improve governance”

Micromanaging such issues as trying to “empower individuals” via a broad trade agreement is a sure recipe for stopping trade. Why not let people use their own good judgement as to how to “empower individuals” and “improve governance” without relying on someone married to a Corporate Diversity officer determine this for the consumer?

Isn’t the individual “empowered” by having low priced goods to chose from rather than waiting for Washington to declare that a products meets some meandering criteria for goodness?

Obama has stated he wants to tear up Nafta and start over; voted against reduction of import duties in Colombia for US goods; voted against CAFTA….but you want us to believe that Sen. Obama is pro-trade? On what evidence?

JBP