11 Songs, 10 Beers

The Hold Steady’s Boys and Girls in America through beer.

Friends know I’m a huge fan of The Hold Steady.  I probably think about their music too much.  Hector and I are flying to Birmingham in September just to see them.  We were at their Ogden performance in June, and I’ve seen them two times before—once in Chicago at the Pitchfork Music Festival.

While jamming out on guitar to the song Chips Ahoy, a question popped into my mind:  What beer, if I were drinking, would I want right now?  In other words, what beer goes best with this song?

An answer didn’t immediately come to mind, but an idea did.  Could one perfectly pair a beer with a song?  Could I pair a beer to each song off of an album, or more specifically, a Hold Steady album, or more specifically still, the album Boys and Girls in America?