Orange Blossom Ale Cranberry Sauce

By on November 15, 2011 in Amber, Pilsner/Pale Ale, Side, Wheat Beer

I could get really cheesy about this. I could even call it CranBEERy sauce. But I’m not going to do that, because, that would be lame.

And I respect you too much for obvious puns. Drunken cranberry sauce? Boozy? All of those overused descriptors miss the point, and the fact that high heat burns off alcohol.

A light ale, with a strong citrus note, like  Buffalo Bill’s  Orange Blossom Ale, lends a beautiful balance to the strong acid of cranberries that you usually see sitting around your Thanksgiving table. I won’t even speak to those of you whose only preparation for anything Cranberry related is the use of a can opener to dispense a hideously ridged gelatinous mass of phallic shaped berry-adjacent matter onto a crystal serving dish.

Other things we won’t be speaking of today: the sound that thing makes when it comes out of said can.

Clear your head of all thoughts tin related and focus on a sweet and tart taste of a cranberry sauce with back notes of an American Pale Ale. You’ll thank me for the reprieve.

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Orange Blossom Ale Cranberry Sauce

Ingredients

  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1/2 cup water
  • 1/2 cup Pale Ale with citrus notes (do not use an IPA, too much hop. I used an Orange Blossom Ale)
  • 4 cups Cranberries
  • 1 tbs fine orange zest

Directions

  • Put it all in a sauce pan and allow to simmer over medium low heat until thickened, about 15 minutes. The longer you cook, the thicker it becomes.
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2 Responses to Orange Blossom Ale Cranberry Sauce

  1. Rachel November 15, 2013 at 1:33 am #

    This page will probably get lots of hits today because the recipe was just posted on Huffington Post. You may want to take a moment to fix the typos? It can only help your writing career, right?

    “who’s” should be “whose”
    “berry-ajecent” should be “berry-adjacent”
    “to much hop” should be “too much hop”

    Recipe looks great – I just may try it this year!

    Reply
    • Jackie November 15, 2013 at 9:19 am #

      Thank you

      Reply

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