Stouts and Scouts: No-Churn Thin Mint Beer Ice Cream. Ten-minute prep! This is my exception. Really, the only one. I have an aversion to mint that started in a cave in Middle Atlas the day before I almost died in Morocco. But the thing is, if you are ever in a cave in Middle Atlas… Read More
Individual Stout Mousse Cakes with Flambé Bourbon Beer Cherries This is for you. Or really, it’s for us. Because I decided a long time ago to redefine Valentine’s day to be about more than just romantic love (although I pretty much covered romantic love that time I wrote about blowjobs). Valentines is about the people… Read More
Stout Cranberry Mascarpone Chocolate Truffles I do this thing every year, and I think you should do it, too. It’s about resolutions. I make one every year, but they aren’t about denying myself things in a way that I will spend the year torturing myself with goals that revolve around fitness or money. They’re about… Read More
Blackberry Galette with Beer Tart Crust It started as a last minute trip to chase down an assignment for a magazine I write for, and it ended up being more of a revelation. How is it that Bellingham—one of the countries best beer cities—is less than two hours from my door and I had yet… Read More
Orange Lime Belgian Wit Cream Tart I know you’ve done this, I know you can relate. My phone rang Tuesday morning, 4th of July, at 6:30 am. Seriously? Who died? Why would anyone call me (late sleeper, night person that I am) at 6:30 am? The area code triggers a memory in the fog of… Read More
No-Bake Beer Creme Brûlée in a Peach Cup I never really know where my day will take me. One day I’m trying to figure out how to make a bacon rimmed cocktail, the next day I’m trying to find sour cream in Panama (by the way, it’s hard to do). Somedays I want to make… Read More
Chocolate Stout Mousse Tart with Bourbon Stout Cherries. Just a few ingredients and 20 minutes! So good, and so easy! Growing up poor in America has its advantages. They are obviously less sparkly and much lower marquee value than growing up rich, but bear with me. You learn things you’d never learn if you had… Read More
Chocolate Stout Fudge Sauce. Three ingredients and SO good. Win at ice cream. This is because I know you, and I know you need this. You’re like me, I imagine. You like to give things to people, and when you do give the things, you want them to be interesting. You want to go visit… Read More
Vanilla Orange Hefe Pound Cake with Espresso Stout Ganache I come to this place every few years. The what do I want? phase. The place I seem to end up after I absentmindedly allow the people-pleaser in my heart to overtake the independent gypsy in my soul. Remember my fuck stupid food manifesto? The place… Read More
10-minute Beer Bread Cinnamon Rolls: Takes ten minutes to get these in your oven! It started years ago, when, for a brief moment, I was trying to be less weird and figure out if “normal” was my bag. For some reason, cinnamon rolls seems like something normal people did on Christmas. I grew up with… Read More
No Bake Chocolate Stout Cheesecake Cups are super easy and simple with only about ten minutes prep. Perfect make ahead dessert! I think it’s because of how hard this year has been. Maybe, but maybe not. Maybe it’s just time. We are all returning to the classics. Going back to what’s familiar and comforting. We’re… Read More
I have something for you, it has beer in to. I made some toffee, full of beer flavor, bacon and salty pretzels for good measure. I also have something else, something that you can fill with beer. Or give to your favorite beer loving human for the holidays. It’s a SYNEK tabletop beer dispenser that… Read More
No Bake Pretzel and Bourbon Beer Balls These are the beers that make me feel like a stalker. This time of year barrel aged beer has my attention, coming onto store shelves just as the fresh hop beers are becoming scarce and I need a distraction from that disappointment. I show up at bottle shops… Read More
Spiked Hot Chocolate with Salted Caramel Whipped Cream Jennifer was one of those people I admired right away. Her gorgeous photos, flawless recipes (she’s a trained chef), and she just seemed like someone I wanted to have a beer with. After we passed the obligatory blog-stalking-each-other period, we became friends. She’s someone who will give… Read More
Mascarpone Winter Ale Stuffed French Toast Winter ushers in a new crop of hard-to-get-your-hands-on beers, and they are just starting to poke their heads out the pumpkin saturated beer crowd. Winter ales have flown under the main-stream-beer-radar for a while, getting a bit lost as beer drinkers trample from the squash-spice section over to the… Read More
Beer Doughnuts with IPA Lemon Curd Don’t invite me to dinner if you’re looking for normal dinner conversation, it always get’s weird. I brought my sister to the Elysian press dinner and we ended up telling the story of the time we accidentally killed a 300-pound pig. It was well after my parents moved us… Read More
Puff Pastry Cake with Maple Ale Pastry Cream It’s storming in a way that makes me nervous. But maybe not in the way you’d expect. I watch the outage map light up all around my town as the lights start to flicker off. I hear the light footsteps of rain on the roof and the… Read More
Collaborations are more than a partnership, more than a blending of ideas or a meeting of brewing minds. It’s a handshake that says, “I trust you, I trust your ideas, and I’m putting my breweries name on the line to prove it.” More prevalent in the beer world than in nearly any other industry, collaborations… Read More