Over at Virtual Potluck, we love our drinks and cocktails! Be it a non-alcoholic Pumpkin Spice Latte by Farmgirl Gourmet, a Creamy Hazelnut & Rum cocktail by Donna of Cookistry, or a Red Wine & Cherry Spritzer by Not Rachel Ray, we love any liquid libations.
So when we were contacted by The Lewis Bear Company to review a few of their beers, we were were pretty excited to drink up! Check out the links at the bottom of this post to visit other blogs and see what they made with the beer. The Lewis Bear Company is a beverage distributorship founded in 1876 that holds the regional franchise for Anheuser-Busch. The company is headquartered in Pensacola and maintains offices in DeFuniak Springs and Panama City. The current president is Lewis Bear, Jr.. –Wikipedia Page
With my beer, I decided to make a unique side dish by infusing jasmine rice with beer. It’s a perfect side dish for a quick weekday dinner, and you can make it for special occasions by adding some chopped roasted red peppers.
Victory Brewing Company’s Headwaters Pale Ale
Tasting Notes from the company: This firmly crispy and aromatically arousing pale ale integrates a softly supportive malt base with underlies streams of herbal hop complexity.
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- ½ cup jasmine rice
- 1 tablespoon Sriracha (or your favorite hot sauce)
- 1 cup Victory Brewing Company's Headwaters Pale Ale*
- season with: salt, pepper and red pepper flakes
- Heat the olive oil in a medium sized pot and add rice and Sriracha.
- Saute until rice is coated with oil and hot sauce.
- Add beer and lower heat to medium low until 90% of the beer evaporates.
- Fluff with fork and cover pot for another 10 minutes, until all the beer has been absorbed.
- Serve as a side dish to soups, proteins, etc.
- *Note: Bottle of beer has enough for one cup plus a shot of beer for the cook!
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Disclaimer: Lewis Bear Company provided the beer to develop this recipe, but as always, my opinions are 100% based on my personal testing.
I wanted to see if it would be possible to share your recipe for Spicy Beer Rice on CraftBeer.com? One of the main goals of this Brewers Association website is to elevate the status of craft beer and bring it back to the dinner table through pairings and as an ingredient in food.
I would create a post similar to this one: http://www.craftbeer.com/pages/beer-and-food/recipes/recipes-list/show?title=sweet-potato-brown-ale-fries and include you bio/photo and link to Cooking with Books. Please let me know what you think!
Meghan
Brewers Association
Web Editor
Looks good enough to drink. Um, I mean eat. Love the shot left for the cook.
Your on to something here my friend!!! I love beer, and I love rice, LOL!!! YUM-O:-) Hugs, Terra
I’m not a huge beer fan, but I’m very intrigued by using it in rice. Great idea!
I commented at 30AEATS too. Cheers!
My current favorite is New Glarus Cabin Fever Honey Bock…excellent craft beer.
This sounds perfect! I love the extra flavor added by cooking the rice in the beer. What a great twist for a standard side.
This sounds really good!
A truly clever use of beer. Bravo.
Great idea! I’m making dinner right now and think I’ll make some boozy beer rice
My favorite craft beer is Bruery Saison Rue made here in Orange Co. But I’d love to try Lewis Bear Beer!
Your rice looks SO yummy! Saw this on the virtual potlock board on pinterest, first one I clicked on! My mom has an amazing taco dip that she always used to make on the 4th of july and she’d cook it with two huge cans of budweiser! Definitely my favorite way to cook with beer
Looks really tasty! I will have to give it a try.
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I like the Cooking with Books on Facebook Page.
My husband really likes the Eel River IPA. I’ve cooked with beer in soups and Welsh Rarebit. This rice looks easy and tasty.
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That rice looks so good. I haven’t used beer often to cook with; I prefer to pour it down my gullet..lol.
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Love this recipe! Really adds flavor to the rice! Thanks for the tip!
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wow nelly! i love using beer to flavor meat and baked goods. i never ever thought about putting it in rice!!! LOVE this. bookmarked!
wowee boozy rice. I likey, likey!! I love beer in general as an alcoholic beverage it’s my preferred one. Am a simple girl! lol also in my chili~!!:)
Looks awesome, we’re always up for a good use of beer in a recipe. That and sriracha. Lots of sriracha.
Wow I have never thought of cooking rice with beer but what a great idea! My favorite craft beer brand is Fat Tire!