Samoas, Thin Mints, Lemonades, Do-Si-Dos and BEER – are we speaking your language yet? We’re talking Girl Scout cookies and BEER – yes, BEER!
While all your neighbors are sharing photos of themselves pairing ridiculously expensive wine with weird cheeses, you can stay in your comfort zone and have an even better experience by pairing your favorite Girl Scout cookies with your favorite fizzy beverage :) Below are some awesome beer and cookie pairing suggestions, thoughtfully put together by the editors of BeerAndBrewing.com. Yum!
Caramel de-Lites /Samoas
These cookies apparently go well with coconut-y and roasted flavored beers such as:
Creature Comforts Koko Buni
Oskar Blues Death By Coconut
Bruery Mash & Coconut
Funky Buddha Last Snow
Wormtown Norm Chocolate Coconut Stout
Lemonades
If you’re an IPA fan, the lemon flavors in these cookies are a great compliment to the beer’s hoppy-ness! Try these on for size:
Ballast Point Sculpin
Night Shift Santilli
10 Barrel Joe
Neshaminy Creek Shape of Hops to Come
Against the Grain Rico Sauvin
Shortbread/Trefoil Cookies
These traditional cookies go well with beers that are dark and coffee-like. Porters and scottish ales with hints of cocoa/coffee flavors are the way to go.
Smuttynose Baltic Porter
Founders Dirty Bastard
Jack’s Abby Framinghammer
Central Waters Brewer’s Reserve Bourbon Barrel Scotch Ale
Oskar Blues Old Chub
Do-Si-Dos/Peanut Butter Sandwich
If we had to guess what kind of beer goes best with peanut butter, we would say something dark and chocolate-y – like a stout – but the experts are saying lagers taste best with these nutty babies! Try it out and tell us what you think…
Metropolitan Dynamo Copper Lager
Schell’s FireBrick
New Belgium Shift
Tröegs Troegenator Doublebock
Great Lakes Eliot Ness
Savannah Smiles
Put aside that lemon wedge and replace it with a Savannah Smile (we don’t recommend actually puttin IN your beer :) ). Put aside that lemon wedge and replace it with a Savannah Smile instead (don’t put it DIRECTLY in your beer, though!). The sugar-dusted lemon cookies are delicious alongside witbiers and bières de miel such as:
Allagash White
Westbrook White Thai
Jester King’s Bière de Miel
Casey East Bank
Brasserie Dupont Bière De Miel Biologique
Rah Rah Raisins
If you’re never tried a “sour” beer, we recommend doing so your first time with one of these ridiculously good oatmeal raisin cookies. Here is a list of some beer that goes delightfully well with these sweeties.
Boulevard Love Child
Crooked Stave Origins
Rodenbach Grand Cru
New Belgium La Folie
New Holland Blue Sunday Sour
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