Music and Beverage Pairings

[duncan]

I've been kicking this idea around for a while, at least since a conversation with friend and meadmaster extraordinaire @Leben: a marriage of "what are you listening to" and "what are you drinking," the premise being that drinks might pair nicely with albums in the same way that they do with foods. Silly? I don't know.

To start it off: on a Hubby-cooks-on-Thursdays spaghetti night, we listened to an old cassette of Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet and his 1st symphony (Chicago Symphony, Sir Georg) and downed most of a bottle of Stump Jump G-S-M red blend.




So: what you got? Just an album and a beverage is what we're after. Pictures nice but not required, food may or may not be involved, and the drink doesn't have to be alcoholic.

 

[Leben]

Sounds like a wonderful way to spend the evening! I'm currently enjoying some Brubeck and a glass of peppered cherry mead. Cheers to you, my friend!

 

[Subtraction]

does burnt coffee and Slayer count?

ttt

 

[Mystic]

does burnt coffee and Slayer count?
< "clinking" coffee mugs?

Except for the "burnt" part, yes... @ least for me.

 

[Mystic]

Back in the day ... pretty far back now ... when I allowed myself consumption of alcohol, I'd pair any music w/ deep, dark 'n dry reds only. And "big"; no wimpy/thin "pinots" for me. My favorites were usually zinfadel or cabrenet franc varieties, but the occasional cabernet sauvignon and even (less occasional) merlot did the trick. No "whites" of any variety, not eve the most dry. Ever.

 

[duncan]

does burnt coffee and Slayer count?

Of course it counts! And it made me think of k. d. lang's Shadowland (playing quietly now, as the wife is still asleep). Track 6 is "Black Coffee."

 

[55Redneck]

I find that Grolsch beer from Holland in tall cans go with everything in music for me, will be spinning and embibing most of the day tomorrow.

 

[duncan]

Mellow night.

 

[Subtraction]

Perrier and Permanent Waves

 

[peerson]

When listening to George Thorogood (sp), I like one bourbon, one scotch, and one beer.

 

[RT Fan]

When listening to George Thorogood (sp), I like one bourbon, one scotch, and one beer.

Or the original by the great John Lee Hooker.

 

[duncan]

The Headliner red blend -- I had to try it because the winery is "Press Play Wines." And it was on sale. A little discordant straight out of the bottle but it kinda sorts itself out by the second glass.

The dissonance of Gil Evans' arrangements in Sketches of Spain by Miles Davis seems like a suitable pairing.

 

[gizzyman47]

Not much of a drinker but I do enjoy some good Ice Tea!

 

[Subtraction]

Billy Beer and Billy Idol

 

[djjazzykef]

I've on occasion played the soundtrack to Shaft on the record player with a glass of scotch on the rocks... pretending to muse about the tough-to-crack case from work and the lady friend that I invited to my non-existemt penthouse apartment.

The time I made homemade classic red-sauce spaghetti and meatballs with some ol' table wine, got elevated when I threw on Sinatra's Songs for Swingin' Lovers. I think I would have preferred The Wildest by Louis Prima, though, still need to track that one down.

Norah Jones' Come Away with Me is Sunday morning coffee music with drizzly cloudy weather (when its not being used as audition music in pretty much every audiophile store I've been in ever).

 

[bluesky]

Coors light... with everything.

 

[oldschoolroc]

Chris Stapleton with a tall glass of Tennessee Whiskey

 

[Hobie1dog]

Pat Metheny with Coke

 

[duncan]

J.S. Bach's "Coffee Cantata" and obligatory cuppa.

 

[Bobcat]

Enjoy a couple Gumball Heads from Three Floyds on our deck after mowing the lawn with a good sweat... while listening to my Spotify Mega Deck Karnival playlist.