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Pairing Beer & Comic Books

February 1, 2012 By Jay Brooks

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Here’s an odd, but interesting article (especially if you’re a comic book geek — which I am) on comic books and beer. The author makes suggestions of beers to pair with your favorite comic book characters. Weird, but why not? We’ve tried pairing beer with everything else at this point, so why not comic books.

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The article, A Guide To Pairing Your Comics & Beer was published yesterday on Quirk Books. The suggestions, a dozen in all, range from obvious to clever to head-scratching.

Here’s the list, though I’d encourage to check out author Thom Dunn’s reasons for each pairing.

  • Batman: Young’s Double Chocolate Stout or Left Hand Milk Stout
  • Captain America: Samuel Adams Boston Lager
  • Daredevil: India Pale Ale
  • The Flash: Four Loko
  • Ghost Rider: Rogue Dead Guy Ale
  • Green Lantern: Stone Arrogant Bastard Ale
  • The Hulk: Brooklyn Monster Ale
  • Iron Man: Chimay
  • Spiderman: Hard Cider
  • Superman: Yuengling Lager
  • Wolverine: Labatt’s Blue
  • X-Men: Anything from Dogfish Head

The two that seem most wrong to me are Batman and Wolverine’s choices. Batman wouldn’t drink something sweet, he’d have an imperial stout, something bigger and rougher like Three Floyd’s Dark Lord. And a better Canadian choice for Wolverine would be Unibroue’s Maudite, which is based on a legend of eight lumberjacks, a pact with the devil and a flying canoe.

And here’s a couple more I came up with. What comic book and beer pairing would you suggest to add to the list?

  • Ant Man or The Atom: Anchor Small Beer
  • Green Arrow or Hawkeye: Strongbow Cider
  • The Joker: Shmaltz Brewing’s Coney Island Freak beers
  • Martian Manhunter: Biere de Mars
  • The Penguin: BrewDog Tactical Nuclear Penguin
  • The Punisher: Steel Reserve
  • Silver Surfer: Maui Big Swell IPA
  • Thor: RedHook Long Hammer IPA
  • Wonder Woman: Amazon Beer

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Filed Under: Beers, Just For Fun, Related Pleasures Tagged With: beer pairing, Comics



Comments

  1. PEI Beer Guy says

    February 1, 2012 at 4:57 pm

    I’m def. going to add some suggestions and do some spin on this on my own site. Having a lot of exposure to comics years ago will pay off here… a brother that writes for Marvel doesn’t hurt, either. 😉
    I think I could come up with some doozies.

    • Jay Brooks says

      February 1, 2012 at 5:07 pm

      Awesome, when it’s up please send me a link so I can it to this post.

    • PEI Beer Guy says

      February 1, 2012 at 5:12 pm

      Thor – Odin’s Tipple
      Abyss – Abyss
      Black Cat – Le Chat Noir
      Union Jack – Spitfire
      Puck – Howe Sound Pothole Filler Imperial Stout

      Just a few early thoughts…

  2. Japan Beer Times says

    February 2, 2012 at 8:06 am

    We just found out about this through a tweet from Rogue. We recommended Morimoto Soba Ale and Lone Wolf & Cub (since we are a Japanese craft beer magazine).

    Now, what to pair with Akira? Hitachino Nest’s Extra High!

  3. PEI Beer Guy says

    February 11, 2012 at 4:59 am

    http://www.peibeerguy.com/2012/02/beer-comics.html

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