I love food and I love beer, but to be honest, I don't think they enhance
each other. If I've had a bunch of beer, I really enjoy a great, hearty
meal--but I don't think its a function of combination. In Prague last
summer I had the black stuff at U Fleku and then a wonderful dark beer with
three dumplings and three meats at a corner place nearby--but they don't
actually seem to make each other better--both were spectacular
independently, but not made better by being had together.

With wine it's different. White wine with anything garlicky is explosive.
(In fact, anything garlicky with ANY wine is huge). White wine with fish
also builds dimension upon dimension. Red wine with meats develops powerful
dimensions of earth-moving richness.

But great beers are phenomenal in and of themselves. They have hundreds of
flavors, while some excellent wines only have a few.

Wines and foods seem to interact in dynamic and powerfuly symbiotic ways,
whereas beer and food seem just to get along, at best--but could do just as
well taken separately.