Best Canberra Food and Drink Matches

Is Kingleys Steak and Crab pretty pricey? What does a good sized crab cost you?

Big T-Bone on the barbie (rare), with salad on the side and an icy cold home brew, enjoyed at 7pm in my backyard, with kids and family around.

mmm nukie brown…

VicePope – where do you source it in Canberra ?

Tomorrow’s Multi Cultural Festival in the city.

awesome chips

It takes a few goes to get it right, but saves you the head splitting kingfisher hangover…

Hey Thumps, that’s the best tip I’ve heard in ages. I’ll be filing that one away for my next trip to India.

Maccas and VB is a surefire combo in charnwood.

Curry and old beer or Newcastle Brown Ale. Kingfisher has sharpish charms, but there’s nothing like a beer with a minimal bloat factor.

Cheese and heavy red. Fair attempt at Tilley’s (though service was …. uninterested) and reasonable chance to assemble cheese at Hyatt smorgasboard. Easier to manage at home. If a club would do this at club prices, I would fall in love.

More fragrant whites with most Asian, but know that fragrance does not equal sweet.

The ploughmans lunch or the fish or one of the burgers and whatever the Wig and Pen has on its cold taps. (I do not own or work for the W&P, but simply find it a tremendous place for the times when coffee will not do).

Ari,

the way to get rid of glycerine was shown to me by a old 3RAR Sgt many years ago in my previous incarnation as a soldier.

You get a schooner glass of soda water and fill it 3/4 way up. you then open the Kingfisher, and dump it, bottle and all, straight in the soda water.

You will see the glycerine coming out of the bottle while the beer stays in the bottle.

Quickly take the bottle out and flip it up the right way. You may lose a bit as it tends to foam up.

However, no glycerine 😉

The trouble with a lot of Indian beer is that it is fortified with glycerine due to the heat and lack of refrigeration.

Glycerine is a sure way to go straight from your first sip to a hangover, with no intermediate inebriation required.

Kingfisher is great with curry.
When I was in India I could get longnecks of kingfisher for A$0.75 and smokes at around A$1.25 – needless to say I quit quitting.

As a rule Caffe Della Piazza have very nice meal/wine by the glass combinations.

Ah.. kingfisher…

Indian beer and Indian food are quite well matched.

Beer and Indian food…

Beer in a glass is good, I agree. I have some of those nice frosted Extra Dry glasses that I nabbed from the pub.

When matching beer and food, Swear by this. Its a bit of a wa*k, but the fundamentals are spot on.

I’m with hingo on the beer and pizza combo. I’ve tried wine and the like and the next closest match in my mind for pizza would be bone dry chilled Spanish rose – but not in public because people will think you’re a poof.

I’ve also found that Hoegaarden, with it’s delicate coriander and citrus flavors is excellent with spicy Asian foods.

Something that I’ve discovered though is how much a beer improves when you actually use a glass – I’ve even been using some large syrah glasses for beers like Little Creatures, Tim Knappstien and the like and they’re seriously better.

Take away pizza and a stubby of Extras Dry does it for me 😉