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
Pure Delicious Cookbook: Free Beer Waffle Sundaes (egg free, dairy free, gluten free, nut free) For more about gluten free beer, watch this A few years ago I sat in the back of a press dinner failing at my attempts to hold back tears in the midst of the biggest personal life crisis I’ve ever… 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
Pale Ale Crumb Cake Walking in the bay doors, they all seem to look the same. There are always the mingling smells of hops, malt and fickle high-maintenance yeast hard at work. There’s a brewer in rubber boots nearby, working out a problem behind a furrowed brow. There is inevitably a tank being cleaned, water from a… 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
Peanut Butter Belgian Ale Waffles with Blackberry Gose Syrup + Four Secrets to the Perfect Waffles I have a couple waffle secrets to share with you. Because I like you and my obsessive food geek research should be of some use to someone other than me. Carbonation. This isn’t a closely held secret, it’s been… 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
Coconut Pumpkin Ale Overnight French Toast Bake Every interview, radio and TV, that’ve done the past two months has involved answering questions about pumpkin beer. I told you about the harvest question incident already, and the problem with pumpkin beer. Beer people, for the most part, see this time of year as hop harvest season more than… Read More
I’ll give you a quick and easy way to tell if your favorite pumpkin beer was made with fresh pumpkins or the canned version. Release date. It takes weeks to brew a beer, and pumpkins reach full maturity, ready to harvest and roast for brewing, sometimes around late August. Making those beers released in July… Read More
I made you something. It took me a year. Right after I made the big move from Los Angeles to Seattle, I spent the better part of last year holed up in my tiny wooden house writing my second cookbook,The Craft Beer Bites Cookbook. It’s the follow-up to my first book, The Craft Beer… Read More
Cream Cheese Beer Pancakes with Strawberry Saison Syrup I’m standing in the middle of a craft store talking quietly on my phone to an 87-year-old woman who wants to ship me weed. I’m acutely aware of the fact that I’m actually embarrassed to tell her that I’ve never smoked weed. Ever. Not even in high… Read More
Maple Bacon Beer Waffles. Win at breakfast. Everyday you have a flight. A flight of meals that starts with breakfast. Maybe it’s a hastily consumed piece of toast as your rush out the door, or a Grande cup of caffeine, or maybe you miss out in favor of a few extra minutes of sleep. Then… Read More
Drunk French Toast Sticks with Beer Blood Orange Syrup. Win at breakfast. Breakfast being the most important meal has nothing to do with nurtition. It’s not about blood sugar, or enriched whole grains or jumpstarting your metabolism. It’s emotional. Breakfast is important because of who we eat it with. The people who live in… Read More
Blackberry Beer Breakfast Muffins A few years ago I spent a week in Ireland, at a hostel at the base of the Guinness brewery. Somewhere near 9am I wandered into a nearby restaurant that was much more pub than grub. At the bar was a bit of a surly local, just him and me. I… Read More
(This post contains affiliate links) Let’s just say that you want to dive into the world of craft beer. Or even that you’re curious enough that you just want to know bit more. Or maybe you’re just as much of a geek as I am and you just like to know stuff. Let’s also… Read More
No matter how great beer is in meat recipes, bread will always be it’s culinary kindred spirit. Because the heart and soul of bread and beer is the same: yeast. The beast that gives us bread, also gives us beer. A few months ago I was interviewing a brewer at an LA brewery who told… Read More
I have this idea that breakfast is a mark for true culinary hospitality. It’s much more intimate than dinner, it’s more vulnerable in a way. You’ve had dinner with hundreds of people, but how many people have you had breakfast with? How many times have you made breakfast for someone? How often do you… Read More
A few years ago I’d had this unfortunate idea that a red eye from LAX to JFK was a great plan. I boarded a plane around 10pm in Los Angeles, alongside a 747 full of business travelers headed for jittery East Coast morning meetings. It wasn’t so much that I irrationally figured that I could… Read More