BS: Things to do with beer

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with beer
From: GUEST, Topsie
Date: 05 Jan 06 - 05:15 PM

Lamb's wool = mulled ale with fluffy apples (such as Bramleys) cooked in it.

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with beer
From: *Laura*
Date: 05 Jan 06 - 05:14 PM

throw it over people you are arguing with.

I guess I've been watching too much tv. I'll just go hang my head in shame now...


xLx

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with beer
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 05 Jan 06 - 01:02 PM

What I want to know is, doesn't the paint come off the beer can and contaminate the chicken?

Also, what does anybody do with the rest of the Budweiser?

Re: "Funny but I have long wondered how you used those covers, being a Brit I assumed they were to keep rain off."

Yes, rain as well as snow, hail, sleet, and the ubiquitous pink insulation which is scattered about the realm by tornadoes.

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with beer
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 05 Jan 06 - 12:23 PM

Remember the diet drink "Tab"? My mother-in-law came for a visit long ago, leaving behind some Tab. I tried baiting slugs with it (why not use it for something?), but the slugs wouldn't have anything to do with it.

One morning I found a tiny note that said, "Where's the beer?"

Those slugs are smarter than we know.

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with beer
From: Tannywheeler
Date: 05 Jan 06 - 12:16 PM

As my (then)almost-grown son used to say (trying to shock Mom), "Beer--not just for breakfast anymore!!" Stews, fondues, roasts, hair-rinse, bug traps....sounds like air--good for almost everything.               Tw

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with beer
From: gnomad
Date: 05 Jan 06 - 09:56 AM

Guest,Leeneia - That is a weird thing to do, but I could imagine it working. Funny but I have long wondered how you used those covers, being a Brit I assumed they were to keep rain off.

I sometimes deglaze the pan with beer when making a casserole, good with beef or lamb, but I prefer to use cider or wine with chicken or pork.

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with beer
From: Gurney
Date: 05 Jan 06 - 02:58 AM

Leave it about until the wine fly gets in it, wait a while, sprinkle it on chips. French fries to the restaurant trade.

Use it to whiten stone floors, stale. Good.
Pass it through your kidneys and ferment. Better.

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with beer
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 04 Jan 06 - 09:58 PM

Check this out.

http://www.outofthefryingpan.com/recipes/chicken.beer.butt.shtml

My sister-in-law swears this works. I just dunno....

I tried to make a blue clicky, but got in and almost couldn't get out!

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with beer
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 04 Jan 06 - 09:47 PM

Pot roast cooked in beer. Very tasty.

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with beer
From: Beer
Date: 04 Jan 06 - 08:13 AM

It has been said already so nothing original here.
Drink it.
Beer

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with beer
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 04 Jan 06 - 07:39 AM

Man leaves the Bar & goes to the Gents where he sees a bloke pouring his beer in the trough.

"What are you doing that for?"

"I'm cutting out the middle man"

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with beer
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Jan 06 - 11:22 PM

Old Bay is the ONLY seasoning to use with crabs! Yessir, if you got crabs, get Old Bay and fix 'em right up!

(We've got a huge container of Old Bay -- but then, my wife grew up in Maryland and spent her teen years on The Bay, and if you have to ask which one, well....)

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with beer
From: mack/misophist
Date: 03 Jan 06 - 09:43 PM

The answer to Grab's question is: NO!

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with beer
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 03 Jan 06 - 08:05 PM

Damn, Grab! Ya beat me to it!

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with beer
From: Grab
Date: 03 Jan 06 - 07:39 PM

Marinate your brats in beer before you toss them on the grill.

Well I know children can be annoying sometimes, but isn't this a little excessive...?

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with beer
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 03 Jan 06 - 07:36 PM

I seem to remember a guy catching cockroaches with beer in a cockroach trap - but it could be a figment of my imagination - like the time aliens came and started a folk club.

some people shampoo themselves with it.

some people sell it, others buy it and make it.
then there was the very fat man who watered the workers beer.

then theres Phil Beer, and Beer in Devon - so you can name places and people after it.

then you pour it down your pyjamas and play with a yo yo, but this is irrational behaviour and I do not recommend it.

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with beer
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 03 Jan 06 - 05:40 PM

"Things to do with beer":

Drink!
Drink!
Drink!
To eyes that are bright as stars when they're shining on me
Drink!
Drink!
Drink!
To lips that are red and sweet as the fruit on the tree....

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with beer
From: Rasener
Date: 03 Jan 06 - 04:56 PM

When you have a hosepipe ban (this is especially for the men), drink loads of Guinness and then water the plants in your garden. Doesn'y matter too much if you miss your aim, nothing to clear up LOL :-)

Just think of all the goodness the plants would get.

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with beer
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 03 Jan 06 - 04:38 PM

You could stick in sugar and spice and such like, and warm it up (preferably with a red hot poker), as Mulled Ale. Here's a recipe that looks good.
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At the other extreme for those who like their beer cold, maybe you could freeze it and have beer ice-cubes to put in your beer.

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with beer
From: gnu
Date: 03 Jan 06 - 04:22 PM

Invite me over. If you got lots.

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with beer
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 03 Jan 06 - 04:19 PM

The trick with beer cookery is to let it go flat first, otherwise it leaves a nasty bitter aftertaste. Of course, for batters this won't work because then they won't be so light.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with beer
From: Kaleea
Date: 03 Jan 06 - 04:15 PM

*My Daddy always said that if your stomach bothers you all the time, have a beer before you go to sleep at night.
*Marinate your brats in beer before you toss them on the grill.
   *Make a batter out of beer & flour, then dunk foods in it & fry   in hot oil.
In the olden days, I never knew any girls who set their hair with beer, but the blonde gals I knew would put in on their hair to help keep it blonde.

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with beer
From: beardedbruce
Date: 03 Jan 06 - 03:33 PM

( great minds think...)

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with beer
From: MMario
Date: 03 Jan 06 - 03:31 PM

It's good for making stews, excellent for braising veggies, good in batter for deep frying, , try steaming seafood (lobster, crabs, clams, quahogs) with a good beer!!!!

Goes well in a cheese fondue, not so well in a chocolate fondue.

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with beer
From: beardedbruce
Date: 03 Jan 06 - 03:29 PM

Give it to a friend or two...



Or steam crabs with it. ( Chesapeake Bay Blue crabs, of course....With Old Bay seasoning)

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with beer
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Jan 06 - 03:24 PM

Beer makes your breakfast pancakes light and tasty.

Too many words. Put the period just before the word "pancakes."

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with beer
From: Helen
Date: 03 Jan 06 - 03:01 PM

I've been making a cockroach trap using a wine bottle with a teaspoon or so of either wine or beer in the bottom and a smear of oil around the inside of the top of the bottle. Cockies can't resist beer or wine, crawl in to indulge, can't get back out because of the oil smear, and die in what most Aussie males would think was heaven, floating in beer.

Go on, tell me I shouldn't be wasting good beer on cockroaches!

Helen

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with beer
From: Charmion
Date: 03 Jan 06 - 02:32 PM

Steamed mussels, boeuf flamande

Kobe beef is from cattle fatted on beer.

You can also give it to your racehorse to make his coat glossy.

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with beer
From: bobad
Date: 03 Jan 06 - 12:02 PM

BEEF AND GUINNESS STEW WITH LEEK CHAMP
Serves 4 generously

For the stew:

2 pounds (900 g) lean stewing beef (or inside round, outside round beef)
2 tablespoons (25 mL) oil
2 tablespoons (25 mL) flour
Salt, freshly ground pepper to taste
Pinch cayenne pepper
2 large onions, chopped coarse
2 cloves garlic, crushed
2 tablespoons (25 mL) tomato paste
3 tablespoons (50 mL) water
1 cup (250 mL) Guinness stout
2 large carrots, chopped coarse
1 tablespoon (15 mL) fresh thyme, chopped

For the leek champ:

1 pound (450 g) potatoes, washed and skins on
2 large leeks, washed, whites only
1/2 stick (1/4 cup/50 mL) butter
1 cup(250 mL)hot milk
Salt, freshly ground pepper to taste

1. For the stew, trim and cut meat into 1 1/2 to 2-inch (4 to 5-cm)cubes. Toss meat in 1 tablespoon (15 mL) of the oil, then into a mixture of the flour, salt, pepper and cayenne. Brown meat with remaining oil in frypan on all sides. Add onions, crushed garlic, tomato paste dissolved in 3 tablespoons (50 mL) of water. Place mixture in a heavy Dutch oven or stovetop casserole with lid.

2. Deglaze the frypan with a little of the Guinness. Pour onto the meat mixture with the remaining Guinness. Add carrots, thyme and adjust seasoning. Cover and simmer gently until meat is tender, about 2 to 3 hours.

3. To make the leek champ, wash and boil unpeeled potatoes in salted water until cooked. Wash leeks and slice, white parts only, into thin rounds. Saute gently in frypan with butter until tender but not browned. Drain potatoes, peel and mash while hot. Beat in leek mixture with hot milk, salt and pepper to make a soft texture. Serve immediately with the stew.

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with beer
From: artbrooks
Date: 03 Jan 06 - 11:57 AM

The Prescott Brewing Company in Prescott, Arizona, my former home-away-from-home, sends out a monthly newsletter, one of the features of which is a receipe for something cooked with beer. The one currently on the website is for Beer Battered Shrimp with Chipotle Honey.

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with beer
From: Raptor
Date: 03 Jan 06 - 11:54 AM

I sometimes mix sugar and beer to make a substance to be smeared on a tree at dusk to attract moths and other insects for study.

Thats the entamologist in me.

Raptor

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with beer
From: SINSULL
Date: 03 Jan 06 - 11:44 AM

Beer Bread baked in the beer can.
Corned Beef simmered for hours in beer.
Used to set my hair with beer - circa 1960. Supposedly conditioned as is set the curl. Stunk like a brewery but...
Beer Battered Fish

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with beer
From: GUEST, Topsie
Date: 03 Jan 06 - 11:37 AM

Add some to your Christmas pudding recipe (drink any left over).

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with beer
From: Emma B
Date: 03 Jan 06 - 11:29 AM

the recipe suggests pale ale or brown ale for the "darkest" loaf - but might try your suggestion.

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with beer
From: bobad
Date: 03 Jan 06 - 11:28 AM

Best ask Mrs. Beer.

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with beer
From: number 6
Date: 03 Jan 06 - 11:26 AM

Emma B .... wouldn't Guiness be the best beer for this??

Thanks for posting this recipe.

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with beer
From: Emma B
Date: 03 Jan 06 - 11:24 AM

Grainy Mustard and Beer Loaf

180ml or 3/4 cup flat beer
1tbsp vegetable oil
2tbsp wholegrain mustard
250g/9oz unbleached white bread flour
125g/4 1/2oz wholemeal bread flour
1tbsp skimmed milk powder
1 tsp salt
1 1/2 tsp granulated sugar
1tsp easy-blend dried yeast

............guess who got a breadmaker for Xmas?

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with beer
From: pdq
Date: 03 Jan 06 - 11:24 AM

Beer makes your breakfast pancakes light and tasty.

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with beer
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Jan 06 - 11:21 AM

Soak your steaks in it for about six hours before cooking them. Use it to steam GOOD hot dogs and GOOD sausages. Use Guinness and chopped up dried apricots in roasting pork. Run it through a still a couple of times. Chill it to EXACTLY 0 C. in a stainless steel bowl, and then drop in chips of ice to suck up the water, then drink the whats left.

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with beer
From: Dave Earl
Date: 03 Jan 06 - 11:13 AM

Make a Steak and Ale pie?

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with beer
From: mack/misophist
Date: 03 Jan 06 - 11:11 AM

Things to do with beer:
    Drink it
    Vomit
    Use excess beer to make beer vinegar (alegar)

Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with beer
From: John on the Sunset Coast
Date: 03 Jan 06 - 11:04 AM

Why would anyone want to waste beer for other than drinking?

Subject: BS: Things to do with beer
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 03 Jan 06 - 10:40 AM

Well, since there've been so many great ideas suggested over on the "Things to do with vinegar" thread, and since there's probably a lot more beer in the world than there is vinegar, what can you do with it? Obviously, you can drink it. And you can use it to bait slug traps. Seems like I remember something about washing hair with it. And you can use it instead of water or milk to make a batter for frying seafood.

Gotta be more. Heck, everybody likes beer more than vinegar. How many times have you seen tavern owners trying to attract customers by displaying signs that say "FREE VINEGAR!"?