Pair two days in one week with local chicken wings, beer
Panama City Beach, Florida — It just so happens that National Chicken Wing Day is July 29, and International Beer Day is Aug. 2 — but why not satisfy your appetite and quench your thirst at the same time?
The most common style of beer you’re going to want to pair with wings is the American Pale Ale or India Pale Ale, because it covers the hoppiness and the bitterness at the same time,
said Brass Tap General Manager David Dominguez. “The hoppiness helps accentuate the spices, and the bitterness helps cleanse the palate to taste fresh after that. … Pale Ales and IPAs go with everything.”
The Brass Tap in Pier Park, 100 Pier Park Drive No. 130, features local bottles and cans, as well as local draft beer from Apalachicola-based Oyster City Brewery, and Santa Rosa Beach breweries Idyll Hounds Brewing Co. and Grayton Beer Co. — including the popular 30A Beach Blonde Ale. The newest local brewery includes Salty Oak Brewing Co. on Beck Avenue in St. Andrews.
“Divide and Conch’r from Idyll Hounds Brewing Co. is the best IPA for all spices and bitterness,” said Dominguez, who paired it with Brass Tap’s Nashville dry-rub wings with blue cheese. “Blue cheese goes better with IPAs.”
But any natural or blackened dry rub would pair well with Divide and Conch’r.
If you’re looking to cool spice, Dominguez added, a “more malty beer helps soothe the tongue for most average wings, which most Americans in this region order — Buffalo, medium or mild. Pilsners or wheat beers are good, too,” Dominguez said.
Mild wings pair well with Pilsner, while medium wings go well with an American Pale Ale.
“Oyster City’s Hooter Brown is more malt to tame the spice,” explained Dominguez, who paired Hooter Brown with hot Buffalo wings or Brass Tap’s sweet and spicy Boom Boom wings with ranch.
Hooter Brown also works well with Asian-flavored wings, such as Brass Tap’s Korean wings. Or pair Korean wings with Oakland Park’s Funky Buddha Brewery’s Floridian Hefeweizen — a German style wheat beer.
Dominguez added, “The wit or wheat beers go well with the Asian spices and flavors of teriyakis.”
For barbecue wings, try a Belgian Strong Dark Ale, and for Garlic wings, opt for a Lager.
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