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Cooking with Beer: 14 Recipes with Stouts, IPAs, and More Beer

We figured there might be a bounty of beer in your fridge this weekend with that game on Sunday. Just in case you have some cans or bottles leftover (ha!) or decide that you'd like to donate one for cooking purposes, here are 14 recipes that call for IPAs, stouts, and even PBR. Ever tried roasting your chicken in PBR?

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Weekend Cook and Tell Round Up: Crack Open a Cold One

Last week on the Weekend Cook and Tell we asked all of you to Crack Open a Cold One for a challenge all about cooking with beer. Most of us love drinking the sudsy stuff but it looks like a whole bunch of us keep a few cans or a bottle on hand for cooking and baking as well. Let's take a look at some of our favorite malty, hoppy cooking with beer ideas.

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Hot Dog of the Week: Fork & Barrel, Philadelphia

Fork & Barrel is a beer-centric gastropub out in East Falls, a few miles from center city, from a team that have made a name for themselves with malt braised short ribs and hand pumped cask ales at Tap & Table in northeastern Pennsylvania. Looking over recent reviews gushing about Fork & Barrel's wild game menu and insane beer selection (on par with the best in the city), what really caught my attention was the brief mention of a separate hot dog menu.

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Cheese and Beer Go Together Better

After five and half years of teaching cheese and beverage pairing classes I've come to a startling conclusion: beer and cheese go together better than wine and cheese. That said, you can't just pair any cheese with any beer and expect bliss. Here's a primer on pairing cheese with lagers, ales, IPAs, and saisons.

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Video: Beer Brewery Rube Goldberg Machine

California-based brewery Trumer Pils made this Rube Goldberg machine to "recreate the brewing process in a new way"—that "new way" being overly complex and totally awesome.

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Video: Women in Modern Beer Ads

Remember the good ole days when beer commercials didn't portray women as shrewish, crazyfaced people? When they would flop around in congo lines, usually string bikini-clad? According to Erin Gibson, host of Current TV's show Modern Lady, those days are over. "Women in beer commercials have gone from big-boobied eye candy to the enemy." (And that "to the enemy" part was in a slow-mo voice, which there should be a font for.) According to Gibson, humiliating ladyfolk physically or psychologically is the norm for beer companies these days. Have you noticed a shift in the representation of women in beer ads?

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Snapshots from Philly Beer Week 2010

The third annual Philly Beer Week kicked off over the weekend, and we were able to check out a few of the 1,000 events going on to celebrate suds in the City of Brotherly Love. From watching Philadelphia mayor Michael Nutter tap the first keg (and get splashed in the process) to hitting up the smaller meet-the-brewer events to the excellent smoked beer and barbecue festival at Yards Brewing, we enjoyed every sip and bite that Philly had to offer.

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How Much Do You Know About Beer?

Beer is the most widely consumed alcoholic beverage in the world. You may look forward to a brewski after a long week or with your favorite burger. Perhaps you only drink light beers, or stouts, or IPAs. Do you like drinking it from a glass, bottle, or can? However you like (or don't like) beer, how much do you really know about the popular beverage? Take the quiz! »

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Beer Festivals and Events Across America from April to September

While we can't list every brewfest in the country, we wanted to give you a little advance notice for a few craft beer events that are coming up this month and down the road. Mark your calendars now and buy tickets in advance—many of these events sell out quickly. Festival sites will have more information and updated brewery lineups as the date approaches. Most festivals have discounted tickets for designated drivers—plan ahead and be safe!

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Seattle's Cask Beer Festival Showcases the Ultimate of Microbrewing

The Kung Fu is strong with Washington State's microbreweries, and the talented, imaginative local brewers were in top form at the 2010 Seattle Cask Fest, held at the Seattle Fisher Pavillion on March 27. Produced by the Washington Beer Commission, an organization devoted to promoting local brewers in the state, Cask Fest is an annual celebration of a method of beermaking that is rarely practiced, but one that yields truly unique results.

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