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Your All-time Favorite Beers and Why?
1. Pittsburgh has great beer. Penn Brewery is back, and thank the beer gods for that. Their Weizen is on par with German Weissbiers I've had, including a local brew I had in Austria. We also have Church Brew Works, and their Pious Monk Dunkle is my favorite non-Weiss beer. If I go to a bar where I can't get either of these, I often choose Bass. It's simple, tasty, and a lot of bars carry it.
2. I guess I already answered this. Seriously, though. Come to Pittsburgh for our beer. We're pretty good at German-style beers. Even people from Germany say that. Penn Brewery is bottled and can be found out and about; Church Brewery beer is hard to find other than at the actual brewery, but for small batch beers they are incredibly consistent.
3. I try to drink my beer out of the appropriate glass for that beer.
4. I'm going with America here. We have so many great microbreweries operated by well-educated brewmasters. There's real pride in beer craft here, and a lot of diversity of varieties, both traditional and experimental. German beers are great, but sometimes they don't import well.
Do You Know These Regional Pizza Styles?
andy stoops - I think Vincents is gone. You're talking about the place on Penn Ave, right? Yeah, that's Spak Bros. now. It's relatively new, and I haven't been there, but I've heard good things (they do all local/organic stuff, and have vegetarian and vegan offerings).
I never realized that Pittsburgh had sweeter sauce than other parts of the country. I would like to add that it's not just sweet, but usually well seasoned (at least the good ones are), sometimes a little kick to them. There are soooo many pizza places in town, and they're all different, but I haven't encountered any that aren't good. You can always find one that's right for you - the right taste to the sauce, texture to the dough, quantity of toppings. My personal favorite is Rialto's over in Greenfield (although I haven't been there in a few years).
Mineo's seems to be our most famous, but yeah, a bit overrated. Adam, if you make it to Pittsburgh, just order a slice from Mineos, NOT the whole pie. The slices are actually twice baked, which makes them way better.
I also think this is probably fairly local - the pierogie pizza. I refuse to try it, but a lot of local places have some variance of a pierogie pizza, because Pittsburgers seem to think that they invented the pierogie. A pierogie pizza will have mashed potatoes, onions and cheese.
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Hot Sauce Therapy. My husband loves spicy food but I refused to eat it. I wouldn't even try something if he said it was spicy. I didn't even like black pepper. So he started what he called "Hot Sauce Therapy." He started sneaking hot sauce and spicy things into food he cooked without telling me, like sriracha in spaghetti sauce or chili powder in stuffed peppers. This went on for a few years I guess. One day I tried making spaghetti sauce myself and I said that it tasted bland and he came clean - it was missing sriracha, which he had been sneaking into my food all this time. Obviously he was careful with the amount - it never tasted "hot" to me. But it worked. I will gladly eat something spicy now, and even add chilis to my own cooking.