Craft Beer & Food pairing at The Ritz

So Friday night we joined Simon Says and the Athlone beer club for one of their monthly meetings. While it was my first time to meet up, Wayne had the pleasure of attending before. Simon organized a great event for the night, a craft beer and food pairing evening hosted by The Ritz aptly named #HopsAtTheRitz. Unsurprisingly there was a terrific turn out on the night. The guys put together a wonderful menu with some great beers.While I read over it I began with a pale ale from St Mels 

First course was smoked hake, warm nicoise salad topped with a boiled quail egg and citrus salsa verdi. This was beautiful and light with great flavours. Its matching beer was a brilliant choice in Mescan Blond. A delicious beer weighing in at 5.5% with a great creamy smooth finish.

Up next was a wonderfully prepared Pan seared wood pigeon, puy lentil with blackberry jus and a micro herb salad. This was so very tasty. To accompany it was Mescan Tripel. I really enjoyed this course but personally felt the be