This month the Sessions topic as chosen by David Jensen at Beer 47 is "Beer Desserts".

First of all I must tell you that I am not a 'beer geek', nor am I a 'beer nazi', (I don't care what you like as long as it's beer!), I just plain love beer!
Beer for dessert? I can do this. I had a wonderful home made pie full of blueberries, smothered in ice cream and with it I had a blueberry flavoured beer from New Brunswick. It was wonderful. The combination complimented each other to the nth degree. Since there was another slice left after the rest of the rabble had gone to bed and I had no more of the blueberry flavoured beer left, but I did have pie, I decided to try it with my usual cheap over hopped regular crud that I can afford on a daily basis. SURPRISE! It was good. After the first bite of blueberry pie and ice cream with hoppy beer I figured that cheese might go well with the mix. Cheddar worked okay but not as nice as I thought.
This got me thinking that when my 27 year old daughter, (Mother of my 3 Grandsons), and of course her husband and the wife and I were sharing a cottage in the near north of Ontario, that this would be a good time to compare cheese and beer as a dessert.

We picked 5 beers and 5 cheeses to have for dessert. My Kids are novice beer drinkers preferring things like 'light' beers and sweetly flavoured beers. I had hoped to get them to see there was much more out there than that. By pairing the beers with the cheeses I actually got them to drink ale, coffee porter as well as a Belgian wit. They were quite impressed with what a cheese could do to the flavour of beer. I won't bore you with the different types of cheese we had, but the most preferred one was a cranberry, cinnamon goat cheese. Figures. Back to the sweet thing again for them.
All in all it was a great success and I now have my own favourite dessert. Beer, (good beer), paired with cheese can be as satisfying as the nicest piece of cake or pie a la mode.