Olivier’s Hamburger.
This is how the French make a burger. They are exquisite. Had one in the Le Sauret Bistro on our recent
trip to Paris. Olivier has made these
twice for our Sunday BBQ.
It is in with the beers because, along with Beer, Hamburger
is one of the 5 major food groups that everyone needs to have a balanced diet,
the others being Pizza, Chocolate and Ice Cream
Hamburger. Use good
meat, and make the pattie thick to stay juicy
Dice red onions, cornichon pickles, capers and lettuce and
mix with some good quality mayonnaise.
Grill the meat and the inside only of the buns.
Spread Dijon mustard and ketchup or tomato sauce on the insides
of both parts of the buns
Add some slices of tomatoes and crumble some blue cheese on
the meat (will melt a bit).
Layer the bun with tomatoes, the pickles, mix and complete.
Beers in Paris
Affligem.
Pelforth.
Brown.
Sweet. Caramel, maybe a bit of Peach. Owned by Heineken but French. Used to be called Pelican but now “Pel”
remains and "fort" added as it is strong in hops plus "h"
to make it sound British for some reason.
Very nice indeed.
This
is an in-depth review of the Brown (“Give a Pelforth Brown to thirsty men” was
the slogan).
It
even mentions a French hamburger!
Pelforth
Blonde. A bit lightish. Not a lot of point in drinking it
really. Tastes a lot like Heineken,
which I can’t stand. At least it didn’t
give me a headache like Heineken does.
L'Abbaye
de Leffe.
Excellent. Tried the Blonde, which is reportedly “light”
but it’s still 6.6%!
St
Feuillien Blonde
Had
this at the Academy of Beer ( http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/4482
) which has been open since about 1960.
This was the best beer I had in Paris and in my top 10 beers of the
world. Wonderful stuff.
Delirium
Tremens
I’ve
had this before but I can’t remember where.
Maybe in Ft Lauderdale? It’s a
very powerful beer, running to 8.5%.
Nice, but the St Feuillien is better in my view.
Update
on two German beers.
Becks.
I
was a late convert to Becks, thinking (incorrectly) that it was a young
person’s response to Corona i.e. something of a “trend” type beer. I’ve had a lot of this here in Tunisia and it
firms up as a great beer and one to be included when it is available. We went to pick up a wine delivery in Tunis
the other day, into a sort of a Bonded Warehouse, although it was actually a
very very large yard. There were 3 semi
trailers loaded with cans of Becks.
While I was waiting I tried to calculate just how many there were on
those three. Don’t know – thousands and
thousands.? Tens of thousands?
Heineken.
When
I was young, this was one of the first real beers that you could get in WA apart
from the rubbish that came out of the Swan Brewery (who had pulled the usual
trick of buying a good brewery, Hannans, and promptly closing it down. Must have made them look bad.)
Golden Brau
4.32%
Romanian. Brewed there by Heineken Romania. Brewed in Tunisia also by Heineken, which
some readers may recall is not on my list of favourites. Nor is this. It is golden and it is fizzy. It is only mildly palatable because I’ve
already paid for it. I doubt I’ll be
making that mistake again.
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