Training & Nutrition - Great Beer - for cooking

I may have found the mother load. I stumbled upon "Rhinelander Export Premium Beer". It cost $8.60 per case (24 X 12 oz bottles) and that makes it particularly good for cooking.

By the way, there are a couple of fun Beer cook books I can recommend:

1) Drink Your Beer and Eat It Too by Joanie Steckart. Nob Hill Press 1995. Library of Congress: 95-67564

2) Reel Beer and Good Eats by Bruce Aidells and Denis Kelly. Publisher Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. 1992. ISBN 0-394-58267-5

Yup, beer is good for drinkin' but sometimes it is better for cookin':beer:

I was listening to NPR yesterday and there was a guy who made beer chicken. You take half a can of beer and pour it in the back of the chicken, then put it on the grill next to the flames with the top closed for an hour and a half or something. The boiling beer keeps it moiste and yummy. I'm not a beer drinker or a cook, I save that stuff for the old man(dad).

I like to make a stew using Guinness... hmm hmm good... another good beer to cook with is Abita Turbodog.. if you can get ahold of some... very good dark beer...

I really like cooking with Tequila, and chicken... maybe a little lime and some peppers... oh yeah baby !

Jeff

Originally posted by yikes
I was listening to NPR yesterday and there was a guy who made beer chicken. You take half a can of beer and pour it in the back of the chicken, then put it on the grill next to the flames with the top closed for an hour and a half or something. The boiling beer keeps it moist and yummy. I'm not a beer drinker or a cook, I save that stuff for the old man(dad).

Thats called 'Beer Can Chicken' and it tastes great! Here's the way we do it. Take a can of beer, drink ½ of it, cut/open another hole or two in the top (I like to take a can opener and just remove the top all together). Season exterior of the chicken with a seasoning of your choice. (I use Lantana). Holding the chicken upright, with the opening of the body cavity down, insert the beer can into the cavity. Place chicken on the center of the grill.

You should use an indirect heat to cook with on the grill. We have a Weber with 3 burners. The 1st and 3rd burners are set on medium, the center burner is left off. Cook for approx. 2 hrs.


Bon Appetite! ;)

Rhinelander...I lived in Monroe, Wisconsin in 1981-82. My apartment was just a two blocks from the Huber Brewery where Rhinelander is brewed. I used to buy a case of Rhinelander for about $4.00 and get $2.40 back when I returned the bottles. It was not good beer.

Huber brews a number of other beers. The Berghoff label beers are quite good. Huber, Rhinelander and MeisterBrau are unexceptional. Back in the 80s they also brewed a beer with the worst name in the business: Hi Brau.

Originally posted by RegularGuy
Rhinelander...I lived in Monroe, Wisconsin in 1981-82. My apartment was just a two blocks from the Huber Brewery where Rhinelander is brewed. I used to buy a case of Rhinelander for about $4.00 and get $2.40 back when I returned the bottles. It was not good beer.

Huber brews a number of other beers. The Berghoff label beers are quite good. Huber, Rhinelander and MeisterBrau are unexceptional. Back in the 80s they also brewed a beer with the worst name in the business: Hi Brau.

Hee hee. YOU ARE CORRECT SIR! It is not a good beer. Rhinelander completely lacks any hops bouque - that is what makes it good for cooking. It is cheap and you don't feel bad using it for cooking.

By the way, Huber also brews some micro-brew class beers under the Berghoff name. Those are pretty good, but about $6.00 per six pack as is typical of better micro-brew.

The seasonal Huber Bock is a treat at about $10.00 per case. I like Huber Bock and, in fact, am drinking one now as I enjoy Bikeforums.com

This is my recipe for when I'm working on the house and I don't have time to watch what I'm cooking: put some Italian Sausages in a cast iron skillet, pour a can of beer in and toss them in the oven at 300f. It seems like you can cook these suckers 45 min to 3 hours and they always taste the same.

By the way, check out the labels of the beers we are talking about here. They do have a certain home-grown charm to them.

(By the way, the best way to get beer labels off bottles is to soak them in ammonia water):

Ahhhh...Point Beer. Breakfast of Champions. :D

We should probably mention that Point is brewed in Steven's Point, Wisconsin and is not a Huber Product.

Wisconsin still has some old local breweries of the type that once dotted the American landscape. In most of the rest of the US it seems that the local breweries were bought up and closed down by the big corporations.

My favorite of the Wisconsin beer bottle labels is Leinenkugel's from Chippewa Falls. Not only is it a wonderful German name, but their logo is an old-fashioned politically incorrect Indian Princess.

Leinie's Beers aren't bad either.

Leinies are pretty good... Ever had Yuengling Lager, from Pennsylvania ? That's a pretty tasty beer... kinda a cross between MGD, and Sam Adams... a slightly darker LAger beer... very tasty.. only wish I could get some out here in Cali

Jeff