"The best type of beer to pair with smoked salmon is a Czech or German pilsner," he says ... work well with a variety of smoked salmon recipes. This cedar plank-baked salmon has a woodsy flavor ...

It’s often brewed with pilsner malts, German ale yeast specifically created for kölsch beers, and traditional noble hops like tettnang, spalt, and the popular hallertauer mittelfrüh.