What to Drink: Wine and Beer for Thanksgiving

We?ll start and finish with beers?and save the wines for the meal.

For an aperitif, I picked Crabbie?s Original Alcoholic Ginger Beer. This is the first drink in a long time to make me raise my eyebrows. The ABV is a low 4.8%, so you don?t get soused?and it?ll go with light ?starters? before your big meal. The drink is sweet, with a lushest ginger ?punch?. It?s recommended you pour it over ice with a slice of lemon or lime. Think complimentary foods, Crabbie?s is so flavorful, you don?t want a food that?ll try and fight it. Fruits like apricots and pineapple, citrus based salads, salty nuts (cashews for their sweetness) and cheeses. You could go for broke and do a full on charcuterie if you like. Crabbie?s comes in 4 packs for $10.99?and pints for $4.59. Serve in a pint glass.

Of course the no-brainer selection for wine is the beaujolais nouveau. We have Domaine Descroix, Domaine Manoir Du Carra, both $11.59,?and the King of the Beaujolais region, Georges Duboeuf all $11.59. This red wine is light, easy to drink, bananas and bubble gum you can serve is slightly chilled and it?s GREAT with turkey.

For a white, I?ve chosen Frisk Prickly Riesling from Australia. If you don?t like sweet wines, don?t be scared! You can taste the cool climate in this wine. It has the acid to back it up, making it a superb food wine, perfect for turkey or ham. It?s lemony and refreshing with a slight ?tickle? or effervescence from the yeast. It?s $12.99 a bottle.

For a red, I suggest Brandborg Pinot Noir, ?Love Puppets? from the Umpqua Valley, Oregon. This is a hearty pinot noir with wild berry flavors, spice, light oak and vanilla. It?s a cool climate pinot wine also, so it?s got the great acid needed for food. It?ll hold up against Lamb and other red meats. It?s priced at $20.59

To finish up, I?d suggest Nommo Dubbel from Boulevard in Kansas City. It?s part of the brewery?s Smokestack series. Nommo is a West African ancestral spirit and the word means ?to make one drink?. This beer is pretty hefty and malty, made with molasses, coriander, cinnamon?and star anise. You?ll pick up banana?and clove from the yeast. This will go perfect with ginger bread?and dense chocolate desserts (a torte maybe). Since you?ll? be pretty full by this time the 8.1% ABV won?t hurt you. It?s available in 750?s, perfect for sharing, and it?s $10.59. I?d suggest serving in a tulip glass with maybe a cigar!

All wines and beers can be found at Murphy Beverage Company in Old Town Winchester.

Story by Charlie Fish, Murphy Beverage Company

Source: http://chestermagazine.com/what-to-drink-wine-and-beer-for-thanksgiving

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