Recipe
Chinese beer duck
The one thing I want to do when writing this column is show beer’s virtuosity as an ingredient in cooking. When doing this I endeavour to use a beer t...
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...
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...
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