Posts by: Christian Gott
Pub snack perfection
So, I was sat recently in my local with a good pint and a packet of a popular, crunchy, bacon-flavoured snack, which by the way is suitable for vegeta...
Nut Brown Ale and onion soup
If you regularly read my recipes, you will already know how I think beer is more versatile than wine in adding flavour to dishes and this is a most ex...
Hiver Blonde Beer fruit loaf
For my last recipe of the year, I thought it would be good to have something suitable for the festive season. Now I will be the first person to admit...
Steamed mussels with Burning Sky Petite Farmhouse Beer
When I am researching for these recipes, I try to follow the basic rule to use a beer that is great as both an ingredient and when drunk alongside the...
Location, location, location...
One of the most difficult concepts in winemaking is 'terroir’ a combination of the type of soil, location and climate. These affect how and what grape...
Carbonnade Ă la Flamande (Flemish beef stew)
When I first started writing recipes for What’s Brewing I made a list of the recipes I knew with beer as an ingredient. It was a pretty poor effort. B...
Beer brats with Salcombe Pilsner
The playwright George Bernard Shaw once said that the US and UK are “two countries divided by a common language”. Take for example today’s recipe, in...
Beer can chicken
I read this week we have had more hours of sunshine so far this year than the whole of last summer. I’m not sure how this is calculated but I can guar...
Easter beer brownie
This recipe’s inspiration is Easter and if, like me, you have school-aged children and a house full of chocolate. Dark chocolate is a key flavour you...
Seafood boil
The recent spell of sunshine certainly seemed to put a smile on everyone’s faces and it got me thinking of one of my all-time top dishes to eat outsid...
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