Beer and Cheese Pairing

Rooster's Brewery is hosting a beer and cheese pairing session on Thursday 19 November, with The Cheeseboard running the evening. It's a straightforward setup: you'll be tasting a selection of beers from the brewery alongside a range of cheeses curated by The Cheeseboard, with each beer paired to a specific cheese to see how the flavours work together.

If you've never done a pairing like this, the idea is that the beer and the cheese are chosen to complement each other — some might bring out the creaminess of a soft cheese, others the sharpness of a hard one. It's a guided way to taste through a few different styles of beer and a few different cheeses in one go, rather than just picking a pint and a snack and leaving it to chance.

The session is held in The Sample Room, which is upstairs at Rooster's Brewery in Hornbeam Park, Harrogate. It starts at 7.30pm, so it's a mid-week evening thing rather than a weekend afternoon. The Cheeseboard is the name behind the cheese side of the pairing, and they'll be the ones bringing the board to the table.