When life gives you a Ballast Point Sour Wench, you make Blackberry Wench Jam. When Baking Brew gives you a Blackberry Wench Jam recipe, you make jam filled shortbread cookies. As an enthusiast for sour beers and lambics, I was so excited to try another sour made by the creators of the Grapefruit Sculpin, one…
American Ales
Smoked Chocolate w00tstout Cupcakes
w00tstout Cupcakes over Bread w00tstout is one of my favorite annual bourbon barrel aged stouts. It is the summer friend that you see once a year and never talk to again, knowing that he will one day return and fill you with delight another year. This beer is bold but not overwhelming. The wheat is…
Blackberry Wench Jam
Where’s My Wench? Being up in Seattle leaves me wanting a plethora of Southern California offerings that I just can’t get as easily accessible up here. One of those being Ballast Point’s Sour Wench. The bottle alone screams out tart! I was at a point where I was ready to make a trip down to…
Elder Cake Loaf
The Decision to Bake with Pliny It has been a little over 3 years since I started baking with craft beer. It has been a fun experiment. However, you could imagine that the one request that I get ad nauseam is to make a recipe with Pliny the Elder. What took me so long to…
Pomona Queen Cherry Sorbet
A few weekends back, I was up in Ontario to do a little shooting for a convention. After, the convention, I could think of nothing better to do but visit the breweries in the areas. Seriously, people, tell me what to do in the area. Google can’t provide me with the culture I want to…
Will you Bean Mine Featuring Unfiltered Sculpin
The Saturated Sauna I love beans. What do I mean by that? I mean I love this dish that my mother used to make which is just beans simmering in a pool of water all day with some pig pieces. I guess it is a bean soup. I just called it beans. I still refer…
Nothing but Chocolate Beer Bread
Return to Obnoxious Eating After a week away in Hong Kong sampling their finest craft beer and indulging in Dim Sum, Wontons, and plenty of roasted goose, the one thing I wanted was a little bit of overindulgence. I am talking about that feeling where you are full, but you say to yourself, “I’m down…
Dia de los Serranos Burgers
Hipsters, Bitterness and a Terrible Production I am starting to move away from baking and starting to venture into more savory dishes that require more sautéing, broiling, and frying. Sure baking will definitely still be around as my sweet tooth will be the cause of my diabetes. But let me tell you, tasting delicious beers…
Chocolate Peanut Butter Dipped Strawberries
Simplicity Can be Sexy The phrase significant other irks me in a weird way. It is a formal expression of someone you love. You don’t refer to your mom as the birth giver do you? If you are in need of a somewhat quick and easy dessert to indulge your lover with this Valentines day,…
Wolf Pup Beer Cheese
Return of the Wolf One of our earlier recipes featured a cheesy bread made with Wolf Among Weeds Double IPA. Since then Golden Road has released the wolf pack with their Wolf Mother Triple IPA and Wolf Pup session IPA. Today we will once again merge cheese with another wolf. The hoppy flavors from the…