If you enjoy cooking meat, fish, or desserts with alcohol, you’ll love discovering new ways to cook with beer. For beer enthusiasts, here are some tips to prepare a wide variety of sweet and savoury dishes with beer that will surprise your guests!
How to cook savoury dishes with beer?
If you usually bake fish in the oven, try enhancing it with beer. For example, cook pikeperch with a bitter lager. To prepare the cooking juices, a French beer such as Rince-Cochon will add depth of flavour and complement the fish beautifully.
For meat lovers, Flemish carbonade, sauerkraut, or poultry can all be elevated with beer. In a carbonade, add Chimay Bleue — a dark Belgian Trappist beer renowned for its spicy and fruity notes. Its complexity enhances slow-cooked dishes and balances the richness of the meat.
Even savoury pies can benefit from beer. You can incorporate it into the dough or the filling. For instance, a quiche Lorraine becomes even more flavourful with the addition of an Alsatian lager such as Pils Météor.
Cooking sweet dishes with beer
For dessert, beer can add originality and complexity. Why not prepare a sweet tart with sugar, enhanced with the beer of your choice? Its malty and fruity notes will enrich the pastry and filling.
For breakfast or a snack, you can also add beer to pancake or waffle batter. A fruity lager works particularly well. We recommend Liefmans Fruitesse On The Rocks, with its raspberry and strawberry aromas, which bring a fresh, sweet touch to your recipes.
Experiment and personalise your recipes
Now you know which beers work best for cooking both sweet and savoury dishes. Of course, it’s all about taste: feel free to experiment by switching the type of beer, playing with sweetness, bitterness, or alcohol content to match your dish.
Visit our online shop to discover a wide selection of beers, available in bottles or kegs compatible with the PerfectDraft beer tap. Explore the different aromas of dark, blonde, and amber beers and take your cooking to the next level!
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