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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 batter, if you don’t like drinking it, you might like eating it

June 15th, 2008    Subscribe To Our Feed

Let’s face it, not everyone likes the taste of beer, so that can be a problem if you want to brew your own beer at home and you need to confince some family members who don’t like it. If you still feel strong about this being your next hobby you need to think of other things besides drinking that you could do with beer. The first that comes to mind is cooking, remember that beer batter that cooks use to deep fry the fish or crab with?

When you show your family members all the recipes that are out there that involve using beer in it you might just convince them that this new hobby of yours isn’t that strange at all. Just do a search online using your favorite search engine with keywords like “beer recipe” and you enter a new world of eating instead of drinking beer. To give you a heads up lets take a look at a recipe for beer batter.

Use the following ingredients:

* 1 cup all-purpose flour
* 1 egg, beaten
* 1 teaspoon garlic powder
* 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
* 1 1/2 cups beer

Add the flour in a small mixing bowl together with the egg, black pepper and garlic powder. Stir this while adding 1 cup of beer. If you want the beer batter to be a bit more fluid ad some of the extra beer.

So you see you can cook with beer and it could just save your home beer brew hobby, and this beer batter recipe is just one of the many recipes out there that involve beer with cooking.

A Classic Fresh Lemonade Recipe Made Perfect

April 30th, 2008    Subscribe To Our Feed

Most People know how to make lemonade at least they think they do, you take some sugar lemons and water and that is all to the home made fresh lemonade recipe. Well there are ways to make the perfect lemonade that will make your guests ask for more and for your recipe as well.

The word lemonade means different things in different country’s, there are actually two kinds of beverages one is carbonated (Australia, UK and New Zealand) and one is not Canada and US. Both are lemon flavoured soft drinks. In French and other European languages the word limonade means soft drink, regardless of the flavour.

You need the following ingredients to make lemonade for about 6 people:
* 1 cup lemon juice
* 1 cup sugar
* 1 cup water (to make the syrup)
* 3 to 4 cups cold water

The actual secret to our fresh lemonade recipe is to make a sugar lemon syrup first. In our fresh lemonade recipe to make a classic lemonade you need to dissolve the sugar in a saucepan in the cup of hot water this way the sugar completely disappears and does not sink to the bottom. Add the cup of lemon juice and the 3 or 4 cups of water (to your taste) and place it for about 45 minutes in the refrigerator.
Add some two tablespoons of freshly juiced lemon juice to it for that extra bite.

My nice who lives in one of the southern states adds tree to five droplets of Tabasco to the mixture, and on a real hot day, that is actually rather nice. But you if you make this fresh lemonade recipe for the whole family it probably is not a good idea.

Recipe For Making Home Brew

April 15th, 2008    Subscribe To Our Feed

I found this wonderful recipe for making home brew extra special bitter beer today. So go get a piece of paper and a pen and wright down this recipe for making home brew.

When you just start with home beer brewing you need a good recipe, there a literally hundreds of recipes that you can choose from, but this recipe for making home brew is a good place to start.

Remember just have fun and try this recipe for making home brew for one batch, you can always adjust the recipe the second time you make it.

Choosing the Right Home Grain Brew Recipe

March 10th, 2008    Subscribe To Our Feed

When you start making home grain brew you need a good recipe, there a literally hundreds of recipes that you can choose from. It is important that you choose the right one because you do want your first home grain brew to be delicious. The best thing you can do is ask a experienced brewer, your own home brew supplier for instance. But when you are really one your own we can give you a few in particular that are really good..

This is one of the best home grain brew recipes by far. For it you will need:
- 5 lbs. of 2-row Canadian malted barley,
- 1 tsp. Burton salts
- 1 cup of crystal malt
- ½ oz. Goldings Hop cones
- ¾ oz. Goldings Hop Pellets
- 2 packets of dry ale yeast.
- ¾ lbs. sugar

All that is required in the making of this home grain brew recipe is to use a step mash, and then sparge and add the Burton salts to the wort. This mixture needs to be brought to a boil and then the bittering hops must be added. This mixture should be boiled for about an hour, after which the flavoring hops, then boil for another ten minutes or so. To finish off simply add the sugar, boil for about five more minutes, turn off the heart, and force cool using a wort chiller. After this the yeast should be rehydrated and added to the aerated wort. Ferment as usual. So, here you have one real simple home grain brew recipe, that you can try out.

New Year Bitter

Another great and delicious home grain brew recipe is called New Year Bitter. There are a few different ingredients required here:
- 4 lbs. Canadian 2-row malted barley
- 1 ¾ lbs. British Pale malted barley
- ¼ cup chocolate malt
- ½ cup golden yellow sugar
- 2 cups crystal malt
- 1 tsp. Burton salts
- ½ oz. Cascade Pellets
- ¼ oz. Williamette Pellets
- ¼ oz. Hallertau Pellets
- 2 packets of ale yeast.

This home grain brew recipe is incredibly simple to prepare. Infusion mash for an hour, sparge and add Burtons salts and yellow sugar, boil for an hour, adding hops at intervals, and then force cool using the wort chiller. Ferment as usual.

When you get some more experience you can even make your own recipes, you just need to keep in mind that there are some basic ingredients you will always need to use. To get some ideas you can look at some other home grain brew recipes.

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