Topic: Which beer goes best with Curry?

[wedwardes]

My own favourite beer is a very low hop Wheat Beer. I love the yeasty banana flavours.

Hops are bitter. With a curry I want to avoid bitterness in the accompanying beer.

Also I would search out those beers with natural gas though second fermentation and not as with most lagers - through artificial injection of carbon dioxide.

Injected gas bubbles are much larger than natural gas bubbles.

First the bubble surface area of the injected bubbles is smaller and therefore less taste generated - think total area of ball bearings inside a football compared with the surface area of the football itself.

But more important with injection easy in - easy out. Natural gas (through fermentation in a closed vessel) stays in.

And then large bubbles lead to belching and farting. 

But that may be an objective.  :

[Tomdip]

I'm a real ale man myself - I have run 2 real ale pubs and without being more boring than your average CAMRA dullard - the new(ish) style of pale hoppy beers such as Oakham JHB, St.Austell - Proper Job, Castle Rock - Harvest Pale etc.  Go perfectly with a curry.  The problem is getting them in a restaurant. 

When I do a curry night in the pub - these pale ales go down a storm - Milton Tiki or Sparta are our house beers and they sit very well with spicy food.

You don't get much choice in a curry house though - so usually end up with the bottled lager.