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I can't see bottled Wrassler's working as well. Off to a Porterhouse beer garden with you. The best views are in Bray <!-- s:D --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_biggrin.gif" alt="" title="Very Happy" /><!-- s:D -->

sounds like a plan. may have to arrange somthing with swmbo and work

I think most strong dark beers would go well with smoke. (Although I'm more of a cigar guy myself - pipe tobacco makes my tongue feel like it's on fire!)

I think even a smoked malt-based beer might go well with tobacco smoke. (Although if I were to get a hold of another Alaskan Porter I would make sure my pallet was in peak form.) <!-- s;-) --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_wink.gif" alt="" title="Wink" /><!-- s;-) -->

I'm also going to vote for a coffee or espresso stout with tobacco.

And maybe a medium-dark highly phenolic belgian beer might work with smoke, too.

If you're looking for a home brew that would go with smoke I'd look for halfway in between a stout and a porter recipe (you want some residual sweetness ala crystal malt) and replace 20% of your base malt with Weyermann Rauchmalt (it's a very light smoke so if you go much lighter you won't even notice it in a dark beer) a bit of oats to give it that thick milkshake texture and some oiliness and it sounds like the perfect oily cigar pairing to me!


Adam

right so i couldnt get hold of wrasslers so i had to settle for bottles of ohara red (and a can of bass <!-- s:oops: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_redface.gif" alt="" title="Embarassed" /><!-- s:oops: -->) .

the tobacco i was using was petersons connisurs choice a very sweet aromatic blend. it did not work at all so red ales dont seem to work with sweet aromatics.
it was my first try of this blend so i was not expecting it to be so sweet.

next week i shall try some stout and some chemy blue as i think these would stand up better to it.

ill keep you updated

At the weekend I had a homemade brown ale with a fill of McLintock Black Cherry. I could taste them both, but I don't think there was any flavour enhancement going on.

Johnny Blue with the 6th Dutch goes down a treat