Posts by: Christian Gott
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...
Brewer’s goulash
Fans of history will be well aware of the shifting state of borders and allegiances across Central Europe. Kingdoms, states and principalities came an...
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