My wife came home last night with a box of gormet marshmallows. One bag was 'beer flavoured'. Twisting my face to meet the challenge of being opened minded I popped one in my mouth expecting a limp wrist of banality only to taste some really complex gorgous beer flavours surging all through my mouth. Even more shock came when I discovered it was made with Innes and Gunn beer. Easily my best Innes and Gunn experience I have ever had. Anyone else have some memorably beer flavoured/influenced food lately?
Not lately, but I've made great pancakes with Innis and Gunn. The vanilla sweetness that puts me off it as a beer works well as a flavour in food.
Marks and Spencer have brought back the beer blackened bacon which is unbelievably good. Asda make a hotpot with oold perculiar which is quite good.
Thanks for the tip off Bevis. Loved the M&S blackened bacon and I'm heading to Asda in the next day or two anyway.
Reversing the polarity of the beer blackened bacon Waitrose are selling Heston BluesMetal Syrup and stout bacon Will report back soon.
You have not lived until you've had a juicy burger with my imperial stout glazed fried onions. I was inspired to do them by the onions that were at the hamburger and hot dog stand at my local market. They would be on the hot plate from 7 AM until noon and they would be so overcooked that they'd turn into a jam-like texture with incredible burnt toasty reduced sweet onion flavour. Just put the onions on a high heat with some butter and let them brown and crisp up slightly, then turn the heat right down to medium low, let them soften up for fifteen minutes and add a fairly sweet and malty imperial stout and let everything cook down and reduce to a syrup consistency that you can mix with the onions for a thick, syrupy glaze. Amazing stuff. The best part is you can make a huge batch of them as they only get better if you let them cool down and re-heat them. You technically can't overcook them, they have to be all mush and jam-like.
I do beer and mustard fried onions for burgers / hot dogs. Just chuck a couple of teaspoons of wholegrain mustard in there with them and it works a treat. It think the mustard helps cut through the sweetness from the caramelised onions and reduced beer. Also, now it's cold enough, red meat stews/hotpots/casseroles are all great using beer instead of stock for the sauce - meat pies too. Although I don;t know if chicken benefits from it - I tried a beer can chicken once but I thought a can of stock stuck up its chuff might have worked better
