Recipes

Here are some of my recipes for food paired with (or utilizing) beer, written both here and as my alter ego, the Carbondale Craft Beer Examiner.

Cocktails

Black Knight- Coffee stout and vanilla vodka

White Knight - All of the above with Frangelico and cream

Original Sin – Oatmeal stout, Frangelico and cream

Beer Cider – Cider and pale ale

Sierra Spritzer – Sierra Nevada, bourbon, cider and orange juice

Hairy Grasshopper – Stout, creme de menthe and cream

Appetizers

Ricotta Toasts with Wildflower Honey and Schlafly Biere de Garde

Entrees

Baja-Style Fish Tacos with Green Flash West Coast IPA

The Philosophers’ Pizza

Braised Pork with Sunchokes, Salsify and Pumpkin Puree and Charleville’s Half-Wit or Triple Wit

5-Hour Chili and Schlafly Irish-Style Extra Stout

Steak Mole Tacos with Great Divide Hibernation Ale

Mexican Chile Cream Soup with Founders Old Curmudgeon Ale

1554 Chili with New Belgium’s 1554 Enlightened Black Ale

Massaman Curry with Schlafly Oatmeal Stout

Brown Shugga’ Pork with Roasted Cauliflower (and Laguintas Brown Shugga’ Ale)

Khao Soi Thai Curry with Sierra Nevada Bigfoot Ale

Cajun Sausage Sandwich with Apple Chutney and Camembert and Bell’s Consecrator

Rosemary Cajun Chicken and Bell’s Two Hearted IPA

One-pot Ratatouille and Spaten Oktoberfest

Black Forest Beer Soup

Rhubarb Chicken

Dessert

White Chocolate Mousse with Toasted Coconut and New Holland Dragon’s Milk

Hop-Infused Honey Custard with Belgian Dubbel

Lemon Granita with Bell’s Hopslam

Chocolate Doppelbock Cupcakes with Ayinger Celebrator

Deconstructed White Russian with Bell’s Expedition Stout