Category: cooking with beer

  • An unexpected pairing

    After you’ve been doing food and beer pairings for a while, your brain makes connections at random moments.  You’ll find yourself eating a cookie and thinking “Hmm, I wonder what this would be like with…” and then checking your beer stash. That’s what happened to me recently. The smell of gingerbread cookies and molasses hung…

  • Beer float

    I thoroughly enjoy making people feel confused about beer.  There are so many preconceptions about beer caused by the advertising for mass brands that saying two words – “beer float?” – makes people come to a shuddering halt. بيت 365 Their confusion comes from the concept of adding ice cream to a mass lager. That…

  • Chili and stout

    Everyone has their favourite chili recipe. And why wouldn’t you? A meltingly tender stew of mixed meats, and/or veggies, and/or beans, it can be a gourmet feast, a magnet for leftovers, or an acknowledgement that there is too much month left at the end of your pay! How can you incorporate a nice beer into…

  • A new take on Guinness cake

    Too many people are willing to accept watery mass brands for their drinking pleasure, simply because of advertising. granada vs real madrid They carry that through into their cooking as well. I refuse to accept this – that’s why I became involved in beer culture – so I kicked this recipe up a notch by…