I love to cook with beer. In my opinion, any recipe that calls for water, stock or broth can easily be replaced with beer. I love to steam rice and couscous in beer. It adds so much flavor. Whenever I come across a spiced beer, fruit beer or specialty beer — the wheels in my [...]
This recipe is short of brilliant. Promise me. At first, I had no intention of cooking with beer tonight. But a series of “unplanned” events resulted in a culinary creation unlike anything I have ever heard of or seen of before! The recipe was inspired by my cravings for salmon. Lucky for me, I found [...]
For some time now I have been longing to divide my blog posts into 5 different themes: Drink With The Wench (tastings & reviews) Cook With The Wench (recipes with beer – both created myself and others) Travel With The Wench (brewery tours, bar adventures etc.) Brew With The Wench (home-brewing & guest brewing – [...]
After taking a kick-ass tour and enjoying a tasting flight of beer at the Dogfish Head Craft Brewery in Milton – my friend and I made the trek down to the Dogfish Head Brewpub (called DFH Brewing & Eats) in Rehoboth Beach, DE. Along the way we stopped off at an enormous liquor store (whose [...]
My earlier years of beer drinking were shaped significantly by the town of New Paltz, NY. Every spring, summer, and autumn my family and I would spend many days hiking at Minnewaska State Park in the “Gunks”. We would reward ourselves with several cold beers at the bottom of the mountain in the town of [...]
Although the two previous days in Chicago were spectacular, from the perspective of The Beer Wench – the third evening was “la piece de resistance.” (For those of you who did not grow up spewing out French sayings, I’ve attached the definition …) pièce de ré·sis·tance n. pl. 1. An outstanding accomplishment: “The bison is [...]
You are all invited to a Backyard BBQ themed “Drink With The Wench”!!! (There will be an official “fancy” craft beer tasting during the earlier portion of the evening.) WHAT: Beer, Burgers, Brats & BBQ With The Wench WHO: The Wench & EVERYONE who A. loves beer B. likes beer C. hates beer but wants [...]
Please pardon The Beer Wench while she does a little shameless self-promotion.I’m excited to announce that I’ve been asked to be a regular guest correspondent on the Columbus Foodcast blog. (Some may remember that this blog got a mention in Episode 5.) My first official correspondence on the Columbus Foodcast has been released today. I [...]
This is a very exciting time for The Columbus Beer Wench. At the last two “Drink With The Wench” beer tasting and ratings, we had the honor of being joined by local food critic and blogger CMH Gourmand (aka Jim). Jim, like myself, is a self-proclaimed foodie, wino & hophead. He also favors one of [...]