26 Breathtaking Beer Recipes (2024)

Are you ready to explore this deeply flavorful list of 26 wonderfulbeer recipes? Sure, you are!

Cooking with alcohol, especially beer, imparts a peculiar depth of flavor. It’s a malty bitterness that can’t be replicated by anything else. It also has an amplifying effect. So, for example, chocolate becomes more chocolatey.

Below, you’ll find so many sweet and savory recipes. You won’t know what to do! There are Vietnamese pancakes, beer-battered fish tacos, a hearty seafood stew, and many more.

Let’s dive in!

Bánh Khọt (Vietnamese Mini Savory Pancakes)

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Bánh Khọt, or mini crispy pancakes, is authentic Vietnamese street food. However, Jeanette ofWok & kinshows you how to make them right in your home. It’s a food that teases multiple senses, including your hearing.

So, first, it snaps and crackles as you bite into it-this is due to the beer or soda water that makes the batter light and delicate. As for the toppings, there are many, but Jeanette’s family prefers shrimp and coconut cream.

Visit Wok & Kin for the recipe.

Slow Cooker Beef And Ale Stew

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This slow cooker beef and ale stew fromNeils Healthy Mealsis a cozy fall or winter family pleaser sure to perfume every inch of your home. However, it’s not just beef and beer. With carrots, onions, and potatoes, it’s a deliciously filling soup that’ll have them wanting seconds or thirds.

Visit Neil’s Healthy Meals for the recipe.

Michelada Recipe (with Homemade Clamato Juice)

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As we get older, our palates mature. Then suddenly, we understand our parent’s food or drink choices, like beverages made with tomato juice. So, here is a Michelada recipe from Jessica ofThe Forked Spoon, a Mexican cocktail made with beer, tomato juice, an array of spices, sauces, and lime. It looks like a fun summer drink!

Visit The Forked Spoon for the recipe.

Oven Baked Brats & Onions

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Braised in beer, these three-ingredient oven-baked brats and onions from Laura,The Cook At Home Mom, are an unforgettable fall meal. Cooking the brats in beer in the oven ensures juicy pork and veal sausage with a crispy exterior. And they’re dying to be served on a bun with some grainy mustard.

Visit Cook At Home Mom for the recipe.

Guinness Pretzel Truffles

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If you’re looking forSurprising Recipes, these Guinness pretzel truffles will do just that. In this brief write-up, Toon shows you how to make the quick snack featuring just a handful of ingredients. Make them any time of the year, but they’re a must-have on St. Patrick’s Day.

Visit Surprising Recipes for the recipe.

Easy Irish Pub Cheese Spread with Guinness

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Holly ofKeeping Life Sanereminds us of what makes St. Patricks Day such a fabulous food holiday. Unlike some holidays, you must plan for weeks and anticipate stress. With St. Patrick’s Day, it’s beer, green, and snacks! So wear green, grab a six-pack, and whip up delicious snacks like this six-ingredient Irish pub Cheese Spread with Guinness. Simply add all ingredients to your food processor and blend.

Visit Keeping Life Sane for the recipe.

Beer Battered Fish Tacos

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When it comes to fish tacos, beer batter reigns supreme. So when we came across this recipe fromThe Endless Meal, we knew it would make our list. First, choose a white fish such as cod or walleye. Cut into strips, then coat them in the batter and fry. The beer makes the coating light and crispy with a subtle maltiness. Serve on tortillas with coleslaw. Mmm!

Visit The Endless Meal for the recipe.

Chipotle Beer Chili

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Have you ever considered using beer in your chili recipes? Doing so can change ordinary bowls into the kind of stuff that wins contests. So follow this recipe fromElke Livingfor a compelling experience with surprising ingredients, including beer, chocolate, brown sugar, and chipotle peppers.

Visit Elke Living for the recipe.

Beer Battered Fried Green Tomatoes With Sauce

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Enjoy these fried green tomato medallions with sriracha sauce from Cadry’s Kitchen as a main, snack, or side dish. The exterior is a crispy coating enshrouding a green tomato. It’s tender yet firm enough to hold up to dipping or sandwiches. And although tomatoes are everywhere, you don’t see fried green tomatoes on menus very often.

Visit Cadry’s Kitchen for the recipe.

Braised Salsa Verde Pork Tacos

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While slow cooker recipes are set it and forget it, the enticing scent of the braised pork shoulder simmering in aromatic ingredients like beer, onions, garlic, cumin, and jalapenos won’t allow you to. With a 12-hour cook time, it might not seem like a weeknight meal, but with some planning, it can be.

Visit Cooking And Cussing for the recipe.

Dori’s Beer Bread

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We know that cooking with beer imparts a unique malty quality to foods like braised meats and stews, but it can also play a flavor-enhancing role in baked goods, as demonstrated with this recipe by Cooking With Carlee. The 50-minute yeast-less quick bread is a wonderful accompaniment to chili and great all by itself.

Visit Cooking With Carlee for the recipe.

Mexican Seafood Soup

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While the blog name,Beyond Mere Sustenance, is a bit ambiguous, it’s your new favorite destination for healthy yet exciting Latin-inspired recipes like this Mexican seafood soup. It’s a hearty and healthy stew with stick-to-your-bones ingredients like squash, potatoes, fish, and shrimp. In addition, there’s an array of flavors, from malty beer to spicy chorizo, garlic, and onions.

Visit Beyond Mere Sustenance for the recipe.

Raspberry Chocolate Sorbet with Guinness

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This raspberry chocolate sorbet with Guinness fromBeyond Mere Sustenanceis a delicious dark chocolate treat with raspberries’ unique tartness and the dark beer’s malty bitterness. With Tamara’s expert palate, you’ll discover how these intense flavors work in harmony rather than competing.

Visit Beyond Mere Sustenance for the recipe.

Beer Braised Short Ribs

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Luay ofUrban Farm and Kitchenis yourseed-to-tableguide, teaching you how to cook seasonally, with local ingredients, and with food grown in your own backyard. It’s a special place and one you’ll surely bookmark.

Today, you’ll learn about his beer-braised short ribs, a great way to utilize a cheaper cut of beef. The method is low and slow in the dutch oven. And the results are surprising, perhaps even better than those cooked in wine.

Visit Urban Farm And Kitchen for the recipe.

Easy Beer Cheese Fondue

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For holidays, get-togethers, and gamedays dips are a must, so you might as well up the ante with this easy beer cheese fondue by Melissa of Return To The Kitchen. There are only four ingredients, two of which you can find in the name. There is one caveat, you will need a fondue pot or something similar to keep it warm.

Visit Return To The Kitchen for the recipe.

Crispy Prawns – Beer Battered With A garlic Mayo Dip

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For Wendy ofDaisies & Pie, there’s no better way to have shrimp (or prawns) than beer battered and served with a quick garlic mayo dip. First, you dip the shrimp in the beer batter, which calls for just a handful of ingredients, including two types of flour, baking powder, and beer, before it’s off to the hot oil.

Visit Daisies & Pie for the recipe.

Fried Jalapenos

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If you’re looking for a completely addictive appetizer, turn to these beer-battered jalapenos served with a creamy mayo-ketchup dipping sauce from Kate of Babaganosh. Better still, this economical snack calls for very common ingredients, most of which you surely have.

Visit Babaganosh for the recipe.

French Onion Soup With Lager

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Classic recipes, written in stone and held in the highest esteem, like French onion soup, are not to be trifled with, right? But, unfortunately, Colleen of The Food Blog doesn’t subscribe to that line of thinking, nor do we. Because when we saw this recipe, we knew that beer would only add more flavor.

Visit The Food Blog for the recipe.

Chocolate Guinness Cupcakes

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Moist, chocolatey, and rich, these chocolate Guinness cupcakes from Lily ofLittle Sweet Bakerare better than your average cupcake. They’re topped with a maple, cinnamon, cream cheese frosting and a salty pretzel. We know a little something about making chocolate desserts with beer. And once you do, you’ll question your sanity doing it any other way. Here’s why. Beer enhances the chocolate flavor and makes baked goods lighter and fluffier.

Visit Little Sweet Baker for the recipe.

Cauliflower Cheese Soup With Beer

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Faith ofAn Edible Mosaicinvites you to try her cauliflower cheese soup recipe with beer. It’s a surprisingly smooth soup with deep, complex flavor from the beer, gouda, Worcestershire, and hickory smoked sea salt. Serve it with croutons, black pepper, and scallions; everyone will forget about meat.

Visit An Edible Mosaic for the recipe.

Beer Batter Onion Rings Recipe

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Of all the fried appetizers that benefit from a crispy beer batter coating, onion rings have to top the list. That onion, wrapped in a light and crispy beer batter coating, is something to behold. Faith’s write-up on the topic is thorough, complete with tips like keeping the oil at the right temperature and letting the batter rest.

Visit An Edible Mosaic for the recipe.

Corned Beef And Cabbage

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With this corned beef and cabbage recipe, Marcie reminds us toFlavor The Moments. It’s an easy one-pot meal with corned beef, potatoes, carrots, and cabbage. Then, for an added layer of flavor, swap water for beer. As a bonus, you’ll find instructions to prepare this St. Patrick’s Day feast in the slow cooker or instant pot.

Visit Flavor The Moments for the recipe.

Chocolate Stout Ice Cream

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Beer fanatics won’t want to miss this chocolate stout ice cream recipe from Sues of We Are Not Martha. It’s something she created after experimenting with adding alcohol to treats like cookies and brownies. Here, though, that booze factor is a bit more apparent, as it’s not cooked off. The recipe requires just a few ingredients, including stout, dark and white sugars, and eggs.

Visit We Are Not Martha for the recipe.

Garlicky Beer + Tarragon Steamed Mussels

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This garlicky beer tarragon steamed mussels fromBig Flavors Tiny Kitchenwas born out of Ashley’s desire to avoid getting the kitchen messy. So we’re here for that! The sausage was added to the dish, as was beer, herbs, garlic, and tomatoes, for a surf and turf one-pot meal fit for crusty bread.

Visit Big Flavors Tiny Kitchen for the recipe.

Pulled Pork Burger With Special Sauce

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According to Joss ofIn The Kitch, don’t go talking about counting calories and watching what you eat around southerners. If it tastes good, that’s all they need to know. So, sticking to that ideal, we just want to eat this pulled pork burger because it looks darn good. Stuffed between two pillowy soft special sauce-slathered buns is the most flavorful tender beer-braised pulled pork, lettuce, and tomato.

Visit In The Kitch for the recipe.

Guinness Turtle Cake with Salted Caramel

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The flavor contrast of this Guinness chocolate cake with salted caramel turtle topping fromForking Good Foodis amaze-balls. The beer’s unexpected saltiness and subtle bitterness balance the sweetness of the cake and caramel topping. In addition, it’s baked in a bundt pan for a beautiful presentation.

Visit Forking Good Food for the recipe.

Which Recipes With Beer Will You Try First?

By now, you’ve discovered over two dozen appetizing recipes with beer. There’s everything from amazing stout ice cream to beer-battered onion rings. So, which will it be? Let us know.

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FAQs

What is the best beer for cooking? ›

Tripels, blondes, saisons and golden strong Belgian beers are usually golden colored and slightly more bitter. For cooking, Belgian witbier, golden strong, saison and tripel tend to work best. You can use them in a wide variety of recipes, from hearty meats to stews to baking.

What can beer be made with? ›

The basic ingredients of beer are water; a starch source, such as malted barley or malted maize (such as used in the preparation of Tiswin and Tesgüino), able to be saccharified (converted to sugars) and then fermented (converted into ethanol and carbon dioxide); a brewer's yeast to produce the fermentation; and a ...

What can I do with lots of beer? ›

Beer recipes
  1. Beef & beer pie. A star rating of 4.7 out of 5. ...
  2. Beer tiramisu. A star rating of 4.7 out of 5. ...
  3. Lime pickle rarebit. A star rating of 0 out of 5. ...
  4. Beer mac 'n' cheese. A star rating of 3.8 out of 5. ...
  5. Beer-battered pollock bites. ...
  6. Yuzu beer batter. ...
  7. Beer-braised beef short ribs. ...
  8. Beer can chicken.

Does beer lose alcohol when cooked? ›

The science: Alcohol does partially evaporate during cooking, but not as much as you might think. Depending on the cooking method and how much alcohol is used, anywhere from 4 to 85 percent of the alcohol may remain. After 15 minutes of cooking, about 40 percent of the alcohol remains.

What is the toughest beer to brew? ›

The Hardest Styles to Brew
  • Pilsner. “You can't hide off-flavors.” – ...
  • Belgian Tripel. “Little to hide, challenging to brew to its appropriate final gravity.” – ...
  • Irish Red. “Getting the color right.” – ...
  • New England IPA. “Oxidation is hard to avoid with all the hops involved.” – ...
  • British Bitter. ...
  • Sweeter Beers.

What should you not mix with beer? ›

Wine and beer

This combination is dangerous because both beer and wine contain sulfites that will react with each other in your stomach. The result? A headache or an upset stomach, and you better avoid that. Try to stick to only one option and never ever drink wine and beer at one night.

What not to mix with beer? ›

Mixing spirits like vodka, gin, rum, or whiskey with beer or wine can lead to rapid intoxication and increase the likelihood of experiencing a severe hangover.

What foods don't mix with beer? ›

Here are some foods experts believe should be avoided:
  • Bread. Feeling bloated after enjoying that glass of beer and trying to soak it all up with bread? ...
  • Chocolates. ...
  • Beans Or Lentils. ...
  • Caffeine. ...
  • Salty Foods.
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What happens when you cook meat in beer? ›

Beer Can Add a Deeper Flavor

Baking or broiling meat in beer for dishes such as pork chops, short ribs, or pulled pork can add a dark, rich color to the meat and give it a deeper flavor. Some people prefer to use beer as a brine or marinade for meat.

What does beer do to meat when cooking? ›

Beers can add rich, caramel-like flavor to the meat with minimal cooking time. One of the most effective ways to tenderize your meat is by using beer. Beer contains alpha acids and tannins that help break down fibers in meat, making it more tender and flavorful. Marinate using beer for an hour or more before grilling.

What does beer do to meat when cooked? ›

One of the most effective ways to cook with beer, however, is to use it as a tenderizing marinade. Beer contains enzymes that help break down tough fibers in meat, making it more tender and flavorful at the same time.

Is beer good for soil? ›

While beer can be used for agricultural purposes, it's essential to be aware of some potential downsides of beer as a fertilizer: Alcohol content: The alcohol in beer may negatively impact soil microbes, disrupting the delicate ecosystem that supports plant health.

What can I do with old expired beer? ›

Do you have to toss expired beer? Is it bad to drink expired beer? We would not recommend it; instead, you can recycle the expired beer. It can be distilled, and the alcohol can be used to make other products (e.g. hand sanitizer).

Is it OK to drink a can of beer everyday? ›

Alcoholic beer is likely safe for most adults when used in moderation (two 12-ounce glasses daily). But drinking more than this is possibly unsafe. Drinking higher amounts of alcoholic beer can cause, blackouts, drowsiness, low blood sugar, vomiting, and other serious problems.

What is the best beer to fry with? ›

Here, in random order, is a brace of beers you should consider adding to your fry-batter mix.
  • PBR (Pabst Blue Ribbon) ...
  • Coors Banquet. ...
  • Old Milwaukee. ...
  • Deschutes Brewery's Bachelor ESB. ...
  • Widmer Brothers' Drop Top Amber Ale. ...
  • Samuel Smith's Pure Brewed Organic Lager. ...
  • Brooklyn Brewery's Brooklyn Lager.

What kind of beer do you use for beef stew? ›

For beef stews, we really like using porters. These beers tend to have a lot of caramelized and toasted malt flavors that work very well with slow-cooked meat, but without going into the coffee-like bitterness of many stouts.

What's the best beer to boil brats in? ›

Any beer will do, but pale lagers work best. Boil in the beer bath for 10 to 15 minutes, or until the brats turn white. Once your brats are cooked through, you'll want to sear them to achieve the crispy skin and grill marks we all love.

Does cooking with beer make meat tender? ›

Beers can add rich, caramel-like flavor to the meat with minimal cooking time. One of the most effective ways to tenderize your meat is by using beer. Beer contains alpha acids and tannins that help break down fibers in meat, making it more tender and flavorful. Marinate using beer for an hour or more before grilling.

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