ChillyWino  
Barrel Racker
Posts: 1755
 | | 04-12-2006 08:23 PM |
| Beer.
Is there any wine you that would go well with Brats??
How I love summer and grilling. 3 weeks ago we had 4 feet of snow in our yard. This past week it's been close to 70 everyday, the birds are back, grass is green, trees are in bloom, golf courses are open. I love the spring. | | |
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TBird
Park Slope, Brooklyn
Master of Wine
Posts: 10194
| | 04-12-2006 08:25 PM |
| BEER!  | | | |
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juggernt
Tampa, FL, USA
Wine Bottler
Posts: 3459
| | 04-12-2006 08:36 PM |
| TBird is just being silly. Of course there's a wine that goes with brats.
Barleywine! | | | Visit The Butcher Block at http://www.butcherblocktampa.com/ | |
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ChillyWino
Barrel Racker
Posts: 1755
| | 04-12-2006 08:47 PM |
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TBird is just being silly. Of course there's a wine that goes with brats.
Barleywine!
I like how you 2 are thinking. Just got back form the liquor store with some coronas. Time to go kick the feet up and relax in the sun. It is 3:30 after all. | | | |
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ChangeMe
Master of Wine
Posts: 11169
| | 04-12-2006 09:32 PM |
| | Beer for me. If forced to pick a wine, maybe a Spatlese. | | | |
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Fred
Wine Thief
Posts: 2673
| | 04-12-2006 09:50 PM |
| | Sauerkraut.....and beer! | | | "It's better to have your enemies inside the tent pissing out, then outside the tent pissing in." -- Lyndon Johnson | |
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ChillyWino
Barrel Racker
Posts: 1755
| | 04-13-2006 02:00 AM |
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Sauerkraut.....and beer!
I guess it was never really in question. Beer and brats are a match made in heaven. After the first beer on the deck, a few of the neighbors stopped by. Next thing you know the grill was going and the beer was flowing. Wine was never even a thought on a night like this. | | | |
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jaimetown
DC area
Wine Labeler
Posts: 3535
| | 04-13-2006 02:29 AM |
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Sauerkraut.....and beer!
Right on... we had some brats in kaiser rolls with sauerkraut, with a side of German potato salad and a nice lager recently. It was fantastic. | | | |
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kpak
Alaska
Wine Bottler
Posts: 3021
| | 04-13-2006 02:35 AM |
| Brats parboiled in beer, then finished on the grill.
Sauerkraut (preferably hot, but sometimes cold & crispy is good, too)
Spicy Mustard
Toasted Buns
Nothing but Beer will do. Preferably a Dunkel Weisse. | | | In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is
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Pool Boy
Laurl, MD (DC suburb)
Master of Wine
Posts: 13767
| | 04-13-2006 03:31 PM |
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BEER!
Clearly the correct answer!! | | | www.roguefood.com -- www.cellartracker.com | |
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ChangeMe
Barrel Filler
Posts: 1475
| | 04-15-2006 05:59 AM |
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Brats parboiled in beer, then finished on the grill.
Ideally, brats parboiled in beer, onions, and butter, then finished in the grill, then returned to the beer/onion/butter hottub until serving time.
As a general rule, wine goes with grilled sausages the way Coor's Light goes with Foie Gras. There is a time and place for everything, but the "grilled brats" is most assuredly a time and place for beer. | | | |
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Pool Boy
Laurl, MD (DC suburb)
Master of Wine
Posts: 13767
| | 04-16-2006 09:17 PM |
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Brats parboiled in beer, then finished on the grill.
Ideally, brats parboiled in beer, onions, and butter, then finished in the grill, then returned to the beer/onion/butter hottub until serving time.
As a general rule, wine goes with grilled sausages the way Coor's Light goes with Foie Gras. There is a time and place for everything, but the "grilled brats" is most assuredly a time and place for beer.
Now see, am I the only one that thinks that is just wrong? I like the charred elements to my brats when grilled, and dunking the poor brat back in to beer after grilling it can take away from the grilled charred crunchy loveliness if dunked back in to the beer bath afterwards. JMHO. | | | www.roguefood.com -- www.cellartracker.com | |
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ChangeMe
Grape Truck Driver
Posts: 28
| | 04-17-2006 11:21 PM |
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As a former Wisconsinite, I can say that I've never seen the dunking it back into the beer sauce after grilling it. Take off of grill, put in bun, add onions, mustard, and ketchup, open up a bad beer, (I used to live in Wisconsin) and eat.
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ChangeMe
Barrel Filler
Posts: 1475
| | 04-18-2006 12:28 AM |
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Brats parboiled in beer, then finished on the grill.
Ideally, brats parboiled in beer, onions, and butter, then finished in the grill, then returned to the beer/onion/butter hottub until serving time.
As a general rule, wine goes with grilled sausages the way Coor's Light goes with Foie Gras. There is a time and place for everything, but the "grilled brats" is most assuredly a time and place for beer.
Now see, am I the only one that thinks that is just wrong? I like the charred elements to my brats when grilled, and dunking the poor brat back in to beer after grilling it can take away from the grilled charred crunchy loveliness if dunked back in to the beer bath afterwards. JMHO.
Perhaps I misspoke when I said "ideally." Brats are perfectly wonderful straight from a grill, but the bath takes very little away from a hot brat and it beats the heck out of letting your brats get cold. I don't think this method detracts from the texture or flavor. I guess I would skip it, though, were I only to eat 1 or 2 (which is never the case, because I feel compelled to eatat least three of them once I go through to effort of grilling in the first place). | | | |
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Edward Bowers
Palm Beach Gardens
Barrel Sampler
Posts: 2072
| | 04-21-2006 05:58 PM |
| | Sauerkraut.....and beer! | | | |
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juggernt
Tampa, FL, USA
Wine Bottler
Posts: 3459
| | 04-26-2006 02:49 AM |
| Reminds me of the time I was in Strasbourg, at fancy restaurant called "La Maison Kamerzell" (or somesuch). More than one fork. Crisp white tablecloths. Nice wine list. Waiters with towels draped over their arms.
And everyone stuffing sausages and sauerkraut in their gobs. | | | Visit The Butcher Block at http://www.butcherblocktampa.com/ | |
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