Beer and food - the perfect combination

An extremely versatile pint

Beer and food work together on two levels. First of all, like many of you, we believe that beer is the new wine. Our drinkers are increasingly realising that many of our beers go particularly well with different types of food – so much so that our beer and food matching events at the brewery are often the hottest tickets in town. Of course, that’s not the only way that beer and food work well together. In this section we provide you with the very latest recipes – tried and tested, obviously – that use beer as a key ingredient. We haven’t found a bad one yet!

Beer and food matching

Here are just some of the ideas we have had about our beers and they food that they might go well with .

Hooky – 3.5% ABV As an aperitif with some canapés
Old Hooky Steak and Ale pie, Lamb dishes
Double Stout Great with dark chocolate!
Hooky Gold Great with salads and light bites
Haymaker Smoked salmon or a lemon tart
Twelve Days Perfect with Stilton or a fruit cake

Some Spring recipes

Lamb chops cooked in Hooky with Spring Vegetables

Lamb chops cooked in Hooky with Spring Vegetables

Finely chop half the thyme and mix it in with half the flour, then season and lightly flour the chops. Reserve excess flour. Heat some vegetable oil in a large frying pan or shallow bottomed casserole dish (large enough to hold all the chops eventually) and brown chops on both sides. Remove chops f..

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Springtime Shepherd’s Pie

Springtime Shepherd’s Pie

Heat the oven to 190C/fan 170C/gas 5. Boil the potatoes until tender (about 15 minutes), then drain thoroughly. Meanwhile, heat a large frying pan and cook the mince, breaking it up with a wooden spoon, until browned - unless the mince is very lean, you shouldn’t need to add any oil. Add the leek,..

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