Thursday, November 1, 2012

Wine And Leftover Halloween Candy!

So, Halloween is over, and either your kids brought in a haul of candy that you can pilfer without them knowing, or, you bought way more candy than you gave out and are stuck with eating it yourself.
What to do.....
Why not match the candy with some adult beverages?
I read an article about matching popular Halloween candy with beer. Why not wine? I copied the beer article's link below if you want to check it out yourself. Here are the candies, the beer pairing from the article and my wine recommendations.
Snickers: beer: milk stout; wine: Brachetto. There is a lot going on in a Snickers bar, with all those sweet and salty flavors attacking your palate. Brachetto is a sweet rose' sparkler from Italy. The sweet strawberry flavors will complement the milk chocolate, while the bubbles and slight acidity will do well with the salt.
Milky Way: beer: milk stout again or an English barleywine. Wine: Tawny Port - no doubt about it.
Reese's Peanut Butter Cup: beer: sweet or imperial stout or a sweetened fruit lambic; wine: The Brachetto would work here too, but I think a Merlot would also be very interesting.
Sour Patch Kids: beer: Flemish red ale or American IPA; wine: tough one. When in doubt - Champagne!
Candy Corn: beer: English ESB or American or English IPA; wine: gotta be sweet. Icewine or Sauternes.
Dark Chocolate: This wasn't part of the beer article, but a big Syrah/Shiraz or Cabernet would both do nicely here.

http://drinks.seriouseats.com/2012/10/halloween-candy-goes-best-with-beer.html

Tom


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