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Beer poached pears with beer caramel sauce
A couple of weeks ago I spent some time sampling cask beer along the south coast of England. I tried some delightful new beers as well as revisiting o...
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...
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...
Best bitter ploughman’s
I am writing this as the UK basks in another heatwave, whilst a good few of you may have been sat sipping a refreshing pint or two in a bucolic countr...
Beer truffle mac ’n’ cheese
Today’s recipe is a little different as I’m going to recommend two beers. The first as an ingredient in the dish and the second to accompany it, as bo...
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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