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Beer Can Chicken Recipe Also Called Beer in the Butt Chicken

September 22nd, 2008    Subscribe To Our Feed

There are many names for this way of cooking a chicken, you can also call it Chicken on the throne. The beer can chicken recipe is a cooking technique that is growing in popularity. We all know beer and chicken taste good together well if you use them both in one dish they even taste more great.

The beer in a beer can chicken recipe has an other function then using wine or even soda or fruits, the beer has lots of sugar in it and its this sugar that makes the meat very tender. The malt and the yeast reacts with the chicken, especially with the skin because of the beer it will be thin and crispy and in the mean while it keeps the meat juicy. You can use beer into a marinade for the meat but the beer in a beer can chicken recipe goes on a completely different spot.

The beer can chicken recipes varies in ingredients and especially with the herbs and spices you can experiment yourself. But in all beer can chicken recipes you take a half full can of beer and place it on the grill or BBQ then let the chicken sit on (over) the beer can so the can is inside the chicken. The little video below will show you a good beer can chicken recipe.

A good beer can chicken recipe is a great addition for your family barbecue party. But you can also cook it in the oven or under the grill just experiment a little and we are sure you will create your own favorite beer can chicken recipe.

Beer Koozies: The ultimate marketing product or just a nice give away?

September 8th, 2008    Subscribe To Our Feed

Beer koozies (or coosies or cosy) started out as very good marketing tool where an image like a logo was printed on a insulating material like a foam cylinder to wrap around a can or stubby bottle. Beer koozies were in fact not just for beers but also for soft drinks and water. And you can still use them for anything you like. The insulation keeps the cold beverage cool because body heat or ambient temperature can not reach the can or bottle. Beer koozies are usually made of neoprene or the cheaper and lighter weight closed cell foam, but you can also use other materials like cloth and leather.

Beer koozies are a affordable way of advertising and are a perfect gift for parties because the beer koozies can be decorated with a special text or pictures. You can also buy them in place of a greeting card for the holidays. There are many online and offline business where you can buy beer koozies in many shapes and colors in small amounts for a reasonable price. If you give them the text or images you would like to use the beer koozies are delivered at your doorstep.

But beer koozies still are a good marketing to, it still is a nice way to promote your business and it is an easy way to brand your name. That is why it is also a nice way to promote your own home brewed beer, if you are starting out with your own micro brewery it is always nice to give all new customers a gift and what is a better way for them to remember your name and beer then to see it over and over again on your specially designed beer koozies. All people that love beer and especially your home brewed beer, should have a beer koozie with your logo. Koozies are cheap to produce, so having custom beer koozies made can be very inexpensive.

Recommended product beer kit packages

September 4th, 2008    Subscribe To Our Feed

Costs cents, tastes a million dollars!

Want to make a great beer just the way the Master Brewers at Coopers Brewery intended? No Guess work here. Their beer kit packages provide you with the beer kit of your choice, the additional fermentable recommended by the brewery, and Carbonation Drops for bottling. Best used with a Cooper’s Microbrewery Kit. It’s fast, easy and you save 10% over buying each product separately. Each package produces 6 gallons of brewery quality beer.

Take a look at the beer kit packages from MakeBeer It sure beats stamp collecting!

Miller Lite Beer Commercials

August 25th, 2008    Subscribe To Our Feed

In the beginning of lite beers it was pretty hard to reach the nay-sayers, the ones who regarded lite as a sissy beer. Television was a great way to reach those men and let them see that the manliest and the toughest men where drinking it to. Miller Lite Beer Commercials where the perfect way to do just that. They used tough guys like football players to create an more macho image.

The first Miller Lite Beer Commercials where on tv in 1973 and had mystery writer Mickey Spillane and football stars Matt Snell and Ernie Stautner. This is a 1970’s Classic Miller Lite Beer Commercial: Merry Christmas from Miller Lite with John Madden, Bubba Smith, Billy Martin.

The slogan “Tastes Great, Less Filling” took until 1976, three full years after the first Miller Lite Beer Commercials that there was a start of acceptance for the lite beer.

Miller Lite Beer Commercials from 1986.

An other old Miller Lite Beer Commercials featuring kung fu.

And one of the latest from the many Miller Lite Beer Commercials

Hope you have enjoyed these Miller Lite Beer Commercials.

Guiness beer recipes, how to brew and how to stew

August 11th, 2008    Subscribe To Our Feed

Guiness beer is a very popular dry stout beer and was developed in Ireland in the Arthur Guinness brewery. Guiness beer is popular all over the world and well known because of its distinctive flavor. This flavor is created by the use of unfermented roasted barley. Guiness beer is made from water, hobs, brewers yeast, barley and barley malt. Guiness beer is pasteurized and filtered. In spite of the full and creamy flavor of the foam, Guiness beer contains only 198 kcal per pint and that is less than a pint of orange juice and skimmed milk.

Guiness beer is often used in many recipes this Guiness beer beef stew is one of those wonderful recipes you can cook for friends and family.

Guiness beer beef stew

Ingredients for 4 to 6 persons

* 1 1/4 pounds 1 inch pieces stew beef
* I cup of Guinness beer
* 6 large garlic cloves
* 1 cup of fine red wine
* 1 tablespoon sugar
* 6 cups beef stock or canned beef broth
* 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
* 2 tablespoons tomato paste
* 1 tablespoon dried thyme
* 3 pounds potatoes, peeled, cut into 1/2-inch pieces (about 7 cups)
* 2 bay leaves
* 2 tablespoons (1/4 stick) butter
* 2 cups 1/2-inch pieces peeled carrots
* 1 large onion, chopped
* 2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley
* Salt and Pepper

Take a large pot and put in on medium heat, heat the olive oil and at the beef pieces, brown them in about 5 minutes. Add and saute the garlic for a minute. Add the Guiness beer, the red wine, the beef stock, sugar, thyme, Worcestershire sauce, bay leaves and tomato paste. Slowly stir the mixture top boil. Simmer for 1 hour on a medium/low heat.

Take another large pot and melt the butter add unions, carrots and potatoes. Sauté this in about 20 minutes until golden.

After the meat has simmered for one hour at the vegetables. You can add salt and pepper to taste, keep the lid off and simmer until the beef is soft and tender (40 to 50 minutes), spoon the fat off sprinkle with the fresh chopped parsley and enjoy.

But before you can use Guiness beer to use in your Guiness beer beef stew you can do two things you can buy the Guiness beer or you can brew a Guiness beer clone yourself. So, what do you need? Well the recipes are divided about the ingredients but there is one that we found the closed to the Guiness beer you can buy:

Guiness beer clone recipe

Ingredients:

9 lbs Brit pale ale
1 lb flaked barley
18 oz roast barley
12 oz carapils
1.5 oz No. Brewer hops (60 min)
1 oz East Kent Goldings hops (60 min)

First, get the “tang” the way Guinness does: Sour about 24 oz (2 bottles) of stout (pref. Guinness) by leaving it out in a bowl a week or more & then freezing it.
While brewing, thaw the sour stout & heat it to 180-190 F for 20 min.
Mash-in at 155F, hold for 1 hour, boil 1 hour & 15 minutes.
At end boil, add the sour stout.
At 70F, pitch 2 packs of Yeast #1084.
A month or so of cold lagering (<40F) after bottling or kegging will help.
(source: www. ericsbeerpage. com/Beer/Recipe/guin.html)

We hope we have helped you in the quest for the best recipes for how to brew and how to stew Guiness Beer

Gluten Free Beer is it possible to brew your own?

August 5th, 2008    Subscribe To Our Feed

To give you a real short answer, yes it is possible to brew your own gluten free beer but it will take a lot of research and testing.

Normally beer is brewed with just four ingredients, water, barley yeast and hops. A person with Celiac Disease suffers from a intolerance to gluten and  this can lead to damage to the intestines. Gluten, are a protein that can be found in various grains like wheat, spelt, oats and barley

Most gluten “free’ beers are not gluten free at all they are just low on gluten from barley and most of the beer lovers who are gluten intolerant will settle for that.

But there are a few recipes now a day that have developed a formula  for a 100% gluten free beer.

The most poplar gluten substitutions grains are sorghum and buckwheat, corn, maize, rice, teff, sunflower, quinoa and soybean. The first two sorghum and buckwheat are the most used in gluten-free beer but the fun in making your own gluten free beer is that you can experiment with other sources.

We have done a lot of research online and one of the best sites can be found here you can also find some recipes there.

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