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Out of the Box: Dr. Oetker Ristorante Mozzarella Frozen Pizza
The three meat one is amazing! (For a freezer pizza)
Help! Honey garlic chicken wings. Homemade or storebought sauce?
Thanks so much for the advice, I'll be cooking them in the oven for sure so this should work great for me! I have some nice fair trade cane sugar, would this work instead of Tourbinado sugar?
Holiday Giveaway: Zingerman's Praise the Lard Gift Box
My fondest port memory was when I went to the farmers market and bought what I thought was going to be bacon I could cut myself...turned out to be canadian bacon or something...basically just a slab ham...but I cut and fried it up like bacon and it was delicious. I still want to at least cut my own bacon...if not brine and cut the pork belly myself!!
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Can Pumpkin Beer Be Serious Beer?
I love pumpkin beer! Propellor Brewery in Halifax, Nova Scotia makes a great Pumpkin Ale each year at this season. It's 5% and sounds closest to Wolaver's Will Stevens' Pumpkin Ale, still tastes like beer but has a delicious hint of pumpkiny-spice. Definetly worth picking up if your in the area!
Out of the Box: Dr. Oetker Ristorante Mozzarella Frozen Pizza
The three meat one is amazing! (For a freezer pizza)
Help! Honey garlic chicken wings. Homemade or storebought sauce?
Thanks so much for the advice, I'll be cooking them in the oven for sure so this should work great for me! I have some nice fair trade cane sugar, would this work instead of Tourbinado sugar?
Holiday Giveaway: Zingerman's Praise the Lard Gift Box
My fondest port memory was when I went to the farmers market and bought what I thought was going to be bacon I could cut myself...turned out to be canadian bacon or something...basically just a slab ham...but I cut and fried it up like bacon and it was delicious. I still want to at least cut my own bacon...if not brine and cut the pork belly myself!!
Cook the Book: 'Baked, New Frontiers in Baking'
My mom used to make this thing called a mud pie...I think it was from one of those free mini cookbook magazine thingies from the folks at Kraft. It was a graham crumb crust, filled with this mixture of chocolate pudding and cool whip that, once frozen became quite solid. Also there were gummy worms and mini marshmallows mixed throughout, and oreo crumbs sprinkled on top...it was delicious, and although its been a few years, I'm quite sure I'd still enjoy this at least in small doses!
What did you cook this weekend?
I made french breakfast puffs, buttermilk biscuits from the article on here last week, and a very nice pork roast, also my gf made a chocolate cake and experimented making her own cream cheese frosting, turned out well! http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/2007/12/french_breakfast_puffs/
What is your must have kitchen equipment or tool?
@Perkymac - Thanks so much for the advice! they are right in my price range! :P I'll be making my way to a cookware store asap!
What is your must have kitchen equipment or tool?
I would love to say my favourite kitchen knife...butt I need a new/better one, so for now i'm going to say my 30cm paderno frying pan...
any suggestions on a good reasonably priced knife??
overdose of delicious!
mmm fried clams....I was once horribly sick of them...I live in Nova Scotia, I used to buy them buy the frozen ones when I was young and eat them wayy too much...I was sickened by them at one point..judging by my salivating mouth, not so much anymore! Thanks for the reminder izatryt!
Easy Comfort Food
My most comforting food by far would be corn chowder, just made some this past weekend. It's a simple recipe, make white sauce by heating 1tbsp each of butter and flour, then add about a cup of milk, then just throw some cream corn, kernel corn, cooked potatoe chunks, bacon, and some chopped onion preferably fried up with the bacon, and your set. Easy, tonnes of leftovers and loses nothing in storage. Totally having another bowl when I get home!
Can Pumpkin Beer Be Serious Beer?
if southern tier is known for their sweet, dessert replacing brews, then what's your beef? Last year, my friends and I did our own pumpkin beer tasting and Pumking was by far my favorite--then again I'm not much for lagers and hops, and I do love me some creme brulee. And obviously I'm not the only one, as it's practically sold out of NYC this year!
Altho happy I was able to score 3 bottles but I might have to intern at the company just to get in on the ground floor next year.
Bottle or draft - A+ Pumking!!
Can Pumpkin Beer Be Serious Beer?
After reading about Dogfish Head's Punkin' Ale in an MSN article on the top 10 fall beers, I knew (being a lover of all things pumpkin) that I had to try it. I had one just last night, and wow, it was awesome!! Loved the slight sweetness, the spices, and of course the noticeable but not overwhelming pumpkin flavor. I'm so pleased to see a SE pumpkin beer review; will definitely have to see if I can find some of these others!
Can Pumpkin Beer Be Serious Beer?
If you're in the Northwest, you might want to check this out: http://www.washingtonbeerblog.com/ . Elysian's annual pumpkin beerfest.
Can Pumpkin Beer Be Serious Beer?
@jeanine990: Thanks for the recommendation! I'll definitely have to search out some Schlafly...
Can Pumpkin Beer Be Serious Beer?
I'm a big fan of Shipyard and Dogfish Head as well. Generally I am pretty pro-pumpkin in my beer, though I did recently buy Mad River's pumpkin and found it very disappointing. Very artificial tasting, bleh.
Can Pumpkin Beer Be Serious Beer?
skizziks and others from the Chicago/St. Louis area should try the Schlafly Pumpkin Ale if you're able to hunt it down. I'm always disappointed not to see Schlafly products included in the Serious Eats beer taste tests, until I remember that its distribution radius doesn't extend far beyond the St. Louis area (I'm in central Illinois, and we only get limited distribution here).
Can Pumpkin Beer Be Serious Beer?
Awesome, I love all the recommendations here! Perhaps there will have to be a Pumpkin Tasting, Round Two.
Can Pumpkin Beer Be Serious Beer?
I recommend checking out Post Road Pumpkin Ale (by Brooklyn Brewery). By far the best I've had. Very well balanced, all the spices kept in check, and pairs really well with food. You might even be tempted to drink more than one in a sitting.
Can Pumpkin Beer Be Serious Beer?
My favorite pumpkin-flavored beer is the Saranac Pumpkin Ale from Matt Brewing Company in Utica, NY. It has a lot of pumpkin pie spices, but it is a full-bodied ale with a distinctive hops flavor that is not overpowering. It goes well with quality Mexican food.
Can Pumpkin Beer Be Serious Beer?
I just tried Dogfish Head's Punkin Ale the other day. Fairly tasty, and better than most pumpkin ales I've tried, but I still wasn't in love with it.
Probably the best I've had is from the Salem Brewing Company in Salem, Mass. Stellar pumpkin ale, I can't wait til I find myself in that area in the fall again...
Can Pumpkin Beer Be Serious Beer?
I'm sorry, but I love Shipyard Pumpkinhead and I'm not afraid to say it!
Smuttynose & Dogfish are very good, but I recommend Pugsleys Smashed Pumpkin, which is done on Shipyard's craft side - much more complex, not as sweet.
Can Pumpkin Beer Be Serious Beer?
whoa, southern tier pumpking is incredible...
Can Pumpkin Beer Be Serious Beer?
ive tried a dozen or so pumpkin beers and some were better than others. my favorite being Screamin' Pumpkin Spiced Ale from Michigan Brewing Co. its spicy but smooth and sweet but balanced... very delicious on a fall night
Can Pumpkin Beer Be Serious Beer?
As a homebrewer who has experimented with pumpkin flesh, and simply as one who has tasted lots of beer, I have never been able to detect a flavor that I could identify as even a "hint of squash flavor" that Maggie refers to. In my experience, if pumpkin is added to what is otherwise a generic beer recipe, the pumpkin flavor pretty much gets lost in the mash. The only way most people can identify a beer as having pumpkin in it is if it also includes the spices that people identify with pumpkin pie. Absent the spices, if there is enough pumpkin in the mash that it contributes a perceptible flavor, most people are going to find that flavor to be objectionable. Do we really want squash flavored beer?
I recently saw a craft brewery boast that their beer had a whole "one pound of pumpkin per barrel!" I think they were playfully messing with the general public's lack of understanding. A mere one pound of just about any starchy matter (or "adjunct" in brewspeak) in 31-1/2 gallons is hardly going to add a perceptible flavor.
Can Pumpkin Beer Be Serious Beer?
I thought the Pumking was really tasty.. It certainly isnt a beer you can drink all night to get drunk off of, but it awesomely intense. Certainly it is a bit sweet, but intends to be - pumpkin pie in a bottle as you said.
Can Pumpkin Beer Be Serious Beer?
I'm a sketic, but I may give one a try this weekend.
Can Pumpkin Beer Be Serious Beer?
Canadians will want to try the pumpkin ale from Great Lakes Brewery.
Can Pumpkin Beer Be Serious Beer?
Great article. Pumpkin beers are one of the big consolation prizes of the fact that winter's on its way.
Hmm, pumpkin beers must be pretty heavily regional: dogfish head is the only one of these I've tried, but I have tried the eight or so other varieties you can find in the Chicago area. The two that are really great are O' Fallon and Buffalo Bill--the pumpkin flavor in each is nice and strong, rather than tasting mostly like beer...
Can Pumpkin Beer Be Serious Beer?
I really love the Dogfish Punkin Ale. It's a great after-dinner beer, or nice snack-like sippin' beer. Not too sweet.
I'm bias though. I love Dogfish Head so very much (60 minute IPA! Aprihop! Black & Blue!)
Can Pumpkin Beer Be Serious Beer?
yup, i was right, pumpking. to each his own i guess. i find most pumpkin ales have the same problem as blueberry ales. It's pumpkin/blueberry flavor + beer flavor, but they're not really integrated. pumpking though, really melds the flavors well with the spices and sweetness toning down the bitter edge of the beer and enhancing the pumpkin's profile to the point where they balance nicely.
And yeah, it's 9 or 10% abv, but that just means you don't guzzle it like you would bud light at happy hour; instead enjoy it more as an aperitif where its sweetness and strength are appropriate.
Can Pumpkin Beer Be Serious Beer?
okay, just skipped the entire article after reading this line:
"without turning their beers into liquid dessert. Others, I'm sorry to say, cross that line. It could be what you're looking for, but I'll stick with pie."
the culprit? I'm guessing the southern tier pumpking, which i happen to love more than any other pumpkin beer, exactly because it is is sweet, strong, and tastes of pie. Let's see if i'm right....
Can Pumpkin Beer Be Serious Beer?
I can't handle the pumpkin beer-- my gf can attest that a tall boy of Pumpking and a bowl and a half of momofuku noodle did NOT go down well!
Can Pumpkin Beer Be Serious Beer?
I too love pumpkin beer. My favorite bar has Dogfish Head's Punkin Ale and I always order it for my "dessert" they rim it in brown sugar and it makes it AMAZING! Even with the brown sugar it isn't too sweet and it's a great way to end the night.
Can Pumpkin Beer Be Serious Beer?
i agree completely on the southern tier pumpkin - too EXTREME! of a beer for my taste - and i thought their creme brulee beer was sweet! they do however, make an amazing chocolate beer that tastes just like chocolate.
fisherman's pumpkin stout is one of my favorites - not too pumpkin-y. i think it's the only pumpkin stout out there (?).
ithaca brewing also makes a nice pumpkin beer but i'm not sure if it's sold in bottles.
Can Pumpkin Beer Be Serious Beer?
One of the reasons I love fall is b/c of Pumpkin beer! I tried the Kennebunkport Pumpkin Ale from Trader Joe's last weekend and it was pretty tasty. Not overwhelmingly pumpkin but not too much to make you think you are having liquid pumpkin pie.
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Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia
About: I'm 23, love to cook and bake, bmx, party, and other normal 23 year old stuff.
Favorite foods: Chicken wings with Dave's Hot Sauce.....homemade pizzas....meat....generally non healthy type stuff.
Last bite on earth: Good ole boiled lobster probably...maybe chicken wings...way too hard to decide really..
I love pumpkin beer! Propellor Brewery in Halifax, Nova Scotia makes a great Pumpkin Ale each year at this season. It's 5% and sounds closest to Wolaver's Will Stevens' Pumpkin Ale, still tastes like beer but has a delicious hint of pumpkiny-spice. Definetly worth picking up if your in the area!