It remains my intention to add more recipes for those of you who enjoy cooking with beer, since I’m always up for a new way to enjoy beer. In the meantime, though, beercook offers a host of different recipes, suggestions, and other information about beer and food. The Kölsch Shrimp sounds quite intriguing.
If you try any of them let us know how it goes.
image from Beer Advocate’s article on beer as food

In case you missed it, yesterday’s post was my attempt at finding the appropriate beers to match a wonderful menu put together by Tracey of foodie obsessed. Those who prefer wine will find a their pairings on Farley’s post at Behind the Vines.
In researching and considering my choices for yesterday’s post, I found a number of good articles on pairing beer with food, so I thought I’d share some of those with you today:
Here’s Beer Advocate’s take on Christmas dinner beers
NPR had an article on pairing food and beer generally
Suite101, which I’d never heard of before, has a different approach …read more

I posted earlier on possible gifts for your beer-oriented readers. If you want to give a gift which won’t be put on the bookshelf and possibly forgotten, you could always try a magazine subscription.
Homebrewers and those interested in the process and chemistry of brewing will likely enjoy Zymurgy, which comes free with membership in the American Homebrewers Association.
All About Beer is a more traditional beer magazine for the beer drinker, and seems like a pretty balanced magazine, all told. The simply named Beer looks a little sophomoric for my taste, but it may well be worth checking out. Beer …read more

I’m a pain in the ass about beer glasses, I admit it. Not only do I (strongly) prefer my beer from a glass, I prefer it from the correct glass as well. My wife has grumbled at me in the past because, having switched from a Pilsner to a Munich Helles, I also switched from the already dirty glass to a brand new, clean glass.
In my defense, I have gotten better about it. During those summer backyard barbecues I happily dug an overly-cold beer out of the barrel of ice, popped off the top, and drank my beer like …read more