When you see beer can chicken, it’s always a similar sight. The crispy brown chicken on top looks delicious enough, but when you gaze down it’s always sitting on top of a can of Budweiser, Coors, or another equally bland beer.
That’s when I thought, “Why not use a beer with flavor?”
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Beer is a delicious ingredient. (Photo: icemn091)
Note: This is the 5th post in a 5-part series called Beer Newbie Missions, a guide on how to like beer.
Beer is food. Have I mentioned that?
Think about what’s in bread: grains, yeast, water, spices. Sound familiar? Beer is liquid bread! (Do I hear trumpets?)
So agreeing that beer is food, it’s time to use it as an ingredient to enhance a dish. We’re going to cook with beer.
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Beer and cheese. A match made in heaven. (Photo: Vissago)
Note: This is the 4th post in a 5-part series called Beer Newbie Missions, a guide on how to like beer.
You always hear about wine and cheese being the classic pairing, but even the wine buffs will agree that beer and cheese is where it’s at.
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Billy Broas is a craft beer lover, homebrewer, and the founder of
The Homebrew Academy. He lives in Denver, Colorado where he splits his time between imbibing and snowboarding, but often combines the two. Billy's beer philosophy is that we should all be beer geeks but not beer snobs. He'll try any beer once and is currently studying for his BJCP beer judge exam.
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