Fox News: Drinking Guinness on St. Patrick's Day? These foods pair best with it

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Drinking Guinness on St. Patrick's Day? These foods pair best with it

A Guinness ambassador from Ireland shared with Fox News Digital some of the Irish stout's connection with the United States — and which food selections pair best with it.......                    ...                        ...As Americans on Monday celebrate another You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login with parades and parties, it's highly likely that Guinness consumption will see a spike.......Arthur Guinness started You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login in Dublin, Ireland, in 1759, and exported his first barrel 10 years later, according to the Guinness website – well before St. Patrick's Day became an official public holiday in 1903 in that country. The first state-sponsored St. Patrick's Day parade didn't make its way to Dublin until 1931.......As for the U.S., the dates are a bit different. The first St. Patrick's Day parade, held in New York City, was on March 17, 1762 — 14 years before the signing of the Declaration of Independence.......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......As St. Patrick's Day festivities have spread throughout the world over time, so has people's love of Guinness.......On average, more than 13 million pints of Guinness are consumed worldwide on St. Patrick's Day, according to WalletHub.......Guinness was the fastest-growing You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login in the United States last year, and 2024 marked a record year in sales, according to the Dublin-based brewery.......What Americans might not know about the popular Irish beer is that it has a footprint in the U.S. ......The only other Guinness breweries outside of Ireland are in Baltimore (home of the Guinness Baltimore Blonde) and Chicago, which opened in 2023. ......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......While there's sure to be plenty of traditional You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login like shepherd's pie, and corned beef and cabbage, served on this day of revelry, what food pairs the best with the dry Irish stout?......To find out, Fox News Digital spoke to Colm O'Connor, a brewery ambassador for the Guinness Storehouse in Dublin, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary......."You can't beat a You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login, to be honest with you," O'Connor said.......O'Connor said Guinness can be used as a base to marinate beef or lamb, "but mainly beef."......Another common pairing, he said, is "Guinness You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login."......"People are not surprised when they hear that, but they're always curious to know why," O'Connor said.......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......The main reason is that Guinness is a dry Irish stout.......A stout is a type of dark beer that is defined by its use of malted barley that's been roasted, "which gives it its color and gives it the flavor," O'Connor said.......Dry Irish stouts are a sort of "subgenre of that," O'Connor said — and are brewed with unmalted roasted barley.......Roasted malted barley "is going to give you a sweet finish," O'Connor said.......You are not allowed to view links. Register or LoginYou are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......"Not so" with a dry Irish stout, he said......."Because of the use of unmalted roasted barley, you'll get the three core flavors – the sweetness, the roasts, You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login – and you'll get the hops," O'Connor said. ......"And once the hops kind of subside, then you're actually left with a subtle dryness."......That dryness means Guinness also goes well with cheeses and meats......."Essentially, it renews your palate," O'Connor said. "It's basically the same reason people would pair dry champagne with oysters or You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login with oysters. It's the exact same means to that end. But this is more like a beer equivalent of that."......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......O'Connor said he bakes with Guinness as well. ......It can be used in Irish soda bread, but O'Connor likes to "take it a step further" and use it with rye sourdough bread and toasted sunflower seeds.......Guinness can also be good You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login. ......O'Connor said he's known some people to make Guinness caramel ice cream floats....

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