Comments on: Saturday Kitchen — why no beer?

By: Great Beer, Terrible Journalism | Beer Tasting League

Great Beer, Terrible Journalism | Beer Tasting League — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 17:03:27 +0000

[...] aside: Boak and Bailey were inspired by Pete Brown’s letter to the Independent to write to the BBC and ask why beer [...]

By: Leigh

Leigh — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:47:45 +0000

…and thinking on, i guess you could say that all of our efforts in the blogworld ( sounds nice, doesnt it?) are simply to get beer ‘out there’. We do what we can…!

By: Leigh

Leigh — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:46:17 +0000

boak – yeah, you had to turn the volume down! The only beer related peice I have seen on MK was a belgian blind tasting, and that was with Melissa. I have yet to see Pete Brown on there (if he has been on, i knew it was in the pipeline).

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:20:56 +0000

“people know it” – that fact doesn’t seem to have reached everyone, only observant existing pub-goers will have noticed, many wine-drinkers clearly haven’t

By: Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:25:40 +0000

“Beer = working class drink”

Cask ale is a middle class drink, and people know it. Indeed when I installed extra handpumps and started pushing ales at my place I had a few chippy comments from customers (now mainly ex-customers) who thought I was trying to posh the place up. I was.

By: Bailey

Bailey — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 12:54:52 +0000

What TV chefs often do — and this is infuriating — is offer very specific wine recommendations and then casually say “or a nice cold lager”. Sometimes it’s even just “a nice cold beer”. Grrr.

By: Wilson

Wilson — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 12:34:37 +0000

My wife just picked me up a copy of the second issue of Jamie Oliver’s new magazine, and I see it’s got a wine feature. While I like Jamie, he’s one of a million chefs that treat and define beer in the macro way.

I don’t even ask for a separate segment on TV shows or column in magazines on beer (Give us a show or two among the droves). What I’d like to see is simply a wine and beer recommendation for for each recipe offered in whatever medium. With as many food shows as there are, and magazines, that would do a good service in a fairly subliminal way. Toss in the odd feature or show and the world would get a little better.

By: Andy

Andy — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 12:33:35 +0000

I was watching it a few weeks ago when they had Neil Morrisey on along with Madhur Jaffrey and Jason Atherton. Unsurprsingly I didn’t feel Morrisey did much for beer and really felt it was a missed opportunity when they were matching up wines with some asian inspired dishes, rather than offering what might have been a more appropriate good beer pairing. A token mention of beer was made but it’s a real shame they did not offer a specific example and explain why an IPA might be more suitable.

By: iano

iano — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 12:26:00 +0000

ahh i think wine is sophisticated but beer is fun and its definately a drink for the summer, much more men prefere it and by the looks of things women are starting to aswell.

By: Zak

Zak — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 23:39:28 +0000

Good point. I’ve just moaned at the Indie.