Topic: Food Recipes
Make Your Own Kimchi
Kimchi is a term used in Korea to describe a wide array of fermented vegetables and fruits, and is the national dish of South Korea. The most common kimchi is made from
Why Dry? Cooking With Fresh Spent Grain
While the crafty homebrewer may have given the usual process of cooking with spent grain a try — which generally requires drying the grain, grinding it into a flour, and then using it in a recipe — there is a much easier approach. Simply use it wet right after your brew day. A trained chef and homebrewer shares advice on doing it right, plus five delicious recipes.
Make Your Own Cheese!
Beer and cheese go hand-in-hand in the BYO office. While making cheese may seem complicated, making beer probably did before you started too. Follow
this advice and you’ll be on your way to making cheese, including recipes for cheese curds, Asiago, and Caerphilly.
Basic Cacao Nib Tincture
If you want to use a chocolate extract, Drew tends to make his own to control the flavor and strip the fat. Here is the recipe.
Let Them Eat Beer!
If you’re hosting a gathering around the holidays this year, then you’ll need a menu. Let us help, as we offer details for a four-course meal plus a cocktail that is sure to impress your guests. Oh, did we mention that every recipe includes beer as an ingredient?
Cooking with Spent Grains
Using spent grains as an ingredient to bake with is a great way to reduce waste by reusing a brewing byproduct while also enhancing the flavor of food recipes. Learn the process of how to make spent grain flour, tips for substituting it into your favorite cooking recipes, and also find five new recipes to make after your next brew day.
Eat Your (Fermented) Veggies
We all love fermented beverages, but fermented foods are another hobby that can bring a lot of enjoyment (and rewarding deliciousness when done). As homebrewers, we likely have the equipment and most of the knowledge to jump right in.
Fermented French Fries
Fermented French Fries Ingredients2 medium / large potatoesSalt (2% brine) Step by stepWhile fermenting potatoes and then later cooking them as French fries might seem like a slightly paradoxical way to enjoy
Fermented Hot Sauce
Fermented Hot Sauce Ingredients3.2 oz. (90 g) chili peppers 1⁄2 Tbsp. sea salt1⁄2 Tbsp. honeySplash of apple cider vinegar Step by stepWhile most hot sauces sitting on grocery store shelves these days are
Sauerkraut
Sauerkraut Ingredients1 medium cabbage (about 21⁄2 lbs./1.1 kg)1.5–2 tsp. salt per lb. (0.45 kg) of cabbage Step by stepAs with any ferment, the better the ingredients, the better the end result will
Making Sausage at Home
What better pairing is there in the summer than a cold beer and a hot sausage? You already make your own beer, why not make your own sausage too? We introduce you to what may become your second favorite hobby, with recipes for beer brats and Italian sausage.
Kimchi
The national dish of South Korea, kimchi is most often fermented cabbage and has been gaining popularity worldwide. Get some pointers and a recipe to ferment your own batch of this spicy and savory food.
