I have 3/4 of a beer keg on my deck right now. It's a nice IPA. I've already given away lots to friends, stored plenty in growlers, and have been drinking it instead of water, but I need more ways to use it. I have the keg until Monday.
I need every conceivable idea on how to use this fruity IPA /ck/. No idea is too outlandish.
beer vinegar
>>8703401
Explain.
>>8703406
Instead of vinegear you use the beer as a substitute.
It's just a keg. Get drinking.
>>8703393
Get some Brats & boil them in beer
Throw a kegger.
>>8703475
If you wanna do a big batch, poke a couple holes in each sausage, brown them in a hot pan, then toss them into a big pot of boiling beer with some soy sauce added in
>>8703393
drink it or make lots of beer batter fries...
use keg for tank on hot rod. its all id buy a keg for.
make 100 1 lb loafs of beer bread
>>8703393
> stored plenty in growlers
Enjoy your flat beer.
> I have the keg until Monday.
Huh? Why would a keg of beer have a return-by date?
You put a deposit down and keep the keg until its empty.
>>8704530
I'm doing what they told me.
The idea here is that i can use it for all kinds of things other than drinking, so it needn't be carbonated for cooking.
Any other food ideas for cooking with beer?
>>8705555
>I'm doing what they told me.
Where you at?
Because I've never heard of requiring a keg to be returned by a specific date, (here in Michigan) the party store holds on to your deposit until you return the keg, whenever you get around to drinking it all.
The only issue ought to be keeping the keg cold for X amount of time you've got it.
wow homeboy couldn't even finish a keg what a pussy
>>8705555
>Any other food ideas for cooking with beer?
Sure. Some standards are:
-use as the liquid for cooking chili
-simmer sausages in it before grilling them to finish
-use in stews
-reduce it and use the reduction in various sauces
-assuming it's carbonated it makes an excellent batter for frying fish, shrimp, chicken, onion rings....
Use it to deep fry something. Cod/whitefish is always good
>>8705555
IPA isn't really great for cooking, malty beer is much better on that front
>>8707986
Anything else I can do with it?
>>8707986
So much this.
Not much suggested in this thread will work with IPA. It's way too bitter.
>>8707990
Pour it out. Live and learn.
Next time buy a 1/6 barrel or a 1/4 barrel instead of the 1/2 barrel keg you got.
If you're cringing really hard at the thought of dumping it, then try the vinegar thing.
Don't reduce it, it will just make it more bitter.
Don't boil sausage in it.
I'm not a know it all, I'm just speaking from 11 years working as a chef in a large brewpub, trying to make food using bitter beer: it doesn't work IMO.
>>8708052
Thank's M80. IPA isn't my first choice. Usually I go with lagers.
As IPA's go this is on the tamer side, fruity, and not super bitter. Doing the vinegar trick. Made cornbread with it. Turned out very well.
>>8703393
>having trouble finishing a keg by yourself in 2 days
???????????
Build a combustion engine that runs on beer and drive around the world
>>8708170
>50 imperial pints per day
That's a little much.
>>8708189
I've had 4 Steins tonight. I think I can make it to 5. I'm down to about 1/4 a keg now.