Blueberry Muffin Beer Loaf Cake I’ve always been curious. Probably a bit too curious for my own good, but I’ll take it over safe, and timid. Lately, It’s been gluten-free beer that’s had me wondering (wait, don’t go! Let’s talk about gluten-free beer just for a second!). It’s not so much the “gluten” part that… Read More
Street Fair Grilled Beer Chicken There is a street fair in LA that I used to frequent, with chicken the smells so incredible it will haunt your dreams. I’d rush past the booths of produce, handmade ceramic mugs, the guy trying to get me to vote for his City Council pick, the face painting lady,… Read More
20 minute dinner: Chili Beer Chicken Tacos with Pineapple Salsa Stocking a beer tub for a summer party is as important as planning the food. Beer sets a tone and fuels conversation. It’s as much about offering your friends their favorites as it is about introducing them to new ones. When planning the brew menu keep in… Read More
15 Minute Dinner: Beer Steamer Clam Linguini I’m on a layover in Salt Lake right now, in an airport bar resisting the urge to hair-of-the-dog my way out of sleep deprivation and a small sprinkling of a hangover. I’m going to tell you something that will make you think I’m crazy, but I already rolled… Read More
Beer Dutch Babies Oven Pancakes with Peaches and Cream This was the first recipe I ever memorized. I was 16 and I’d driven 3 hours to stay at a house on the lake with a few friends. Five guys shared a dirty, old, charming, huge, lakeside craftsman house and were very clearly expecting me to… Read More
Blackberry Peach Saison Galette , with the BEST pastry crust ever. I wonder if he likes it. Garrett Oliver starts an effortless soliloquy about the beer we’re drinking. A careful and accurate dissection of flavor, body, and aroma of a replica batch of a 133-year-old Carlsberg beer. In his cashmere voice he talks, almost without… Read More
Strawberry Pineapple Pale Ale Cake with Whipped Cream Cheese Frosting This is the new beer-to-watch of 2016. Pineapples have been slowly sneaking their spiked heads into brew kettles for the past few years, closing the lead on grapefruit’s fruit-of-the-moment status. IPA’s are often the drug of choice for the pineapple craze, but the tentacles of… Read More
Grilled Garlic Beer Flatbread It’s stopped raining for two days. So, obviously, the grill needs to come to life. There is something beautifully primal about cooking over open flames, even if those open flames are produced by propane our ancestors didn’t have access to. The fire, smoke, heat much higher than your oven is able… Read More
Beer Brined Rotisserie Spiced Chicken Legs I spent a few years resenting chicken. Not chicken in general, beer can chicken. Mostly because when people found out that I cooked with beer for a living, that was the first recipe they thought of. “Like….beer can chicken?” Um, yeah. Or Beer Brined Duck with Stout Pomegranate Sauce… Read More
Buttermilk and Beer Beignets I have this detrimental habit of undercutting my price, or doing work for free, in exchange for a plane ticket and a hotel reservation. Last year I nearly committed to writing an entire menu just for the opportunity to go to Uganda for the weekend. The timing ended up being too… Read More
Drunk Pasta Carbonara In the guts of Sam Adams I sat in the back of a room filled with beer people. Julia Herz stood at the front, addressing the crowd of beer writers, just thirty minutes before the bottles of Utopias were to be popped by Jim Koch, and we could think of little else.… Read More
Slow Cooker Tuscan White Bean and Beer Chicken Soup “You’re not reactionary, you’re rebellious but intentional. You think before you jump off the bridge.” Someone I know well said this to me once. I was the kid your parents warned you about, the one who jumps off the bridge and your parents ask if you’re… Read More
One Bowl Cinnamon Sugar Beer Muffins There is a feeling in the depths of winter that the quiet will swallow you whole if you don’t keep moving. As if you’d just be that misplaced bracelet that never gets found, disappearing behind furniture and then just ceasing to exist. I’m not used to this. Born and… Read More
No Yeast Vanilla Brown Sugar Beer Cinnamon Rolls Every Christmas I make cinnamon rolls. Yeasty, gorgeous, giant rolls with a thick layer of cream cheese frosting. A recipe that took years to prefect into the soft, tender, sweet and cinnamony treat with the thick ribbon of sugary butter center and tangy frosting. I make it… Read More
20-Minute Garlic Cheddar Beer Biscuit Rolls This is an early warning sign. Some people have a nicotine itch when the stress starts to climb up their insides, some people get aggressive and angry, but I make bread. It’s a strange feeling, “I just want to make some bread,” being my pressure release valve. Biscuits are… Read More
Chipotle White Ale Cranberry Sauce This is a game changer. It’s the “best cranberry sauce ever” for cranberry sauce people, also for I-don’t-like-that-stuff people, and even for “don’t judge, but I like the phallic looking, ridged, gelatinous, canned version, don’t hate” people. It’s smokey, spicy, and has a slight hint of beer. A recipe that… Read More
Hefeweizen Mozzarella Bombs You should do an experiment. Before you become so dismissive of the impact of beer in baking (or, as a marinade for chicken), do a side by side. Sometime we beer-cook because of the flavor, but not always. Do you taste the baking soda in your cake? Of course not. But if… Read More
Coconut Beer Steamer Clam Chowder I remember the walls were dirty. Before he tried to push the glass table through my torso, I could only focus on the stains spread like a grease constellation across the Navajo White walls of the government subsidized apartment I was trapped in. His mom’s girlfriend wrapped her dark, sinewy… Read More