Cooking with Guinness for St. Patrick's Day: Recipes

Guinness Recipes for St. Patrick's Day

We've already given you a few traditional St. Patrick's Day recipes, but let's move on. How about cooking with Guinness? The iconic Irish stout may be heavy, but it's also relatively low in alcohol.

One method of cooking with Guinness is to pour yourself a pint while you cook. However, if you want to incorporate Guinness (or other types of stout) into your cuisine, read on.

Guinness Recipes

• Guinness Beef Stew: this is an instant classic. It's extremely filling.
• Irish Brown Soda Bread
  
• Fat Stout Onion Soup: If you don't have blue cheese, you could probably get away with Stilton.
• Fake Steak & Guinness Pie, for vegetarian Guinness fans.Note that the vats that brew Guinness are lined with isinglass, a fish by-product, so some argue that Guinness is not strictly vegetarian.
  
• Guinness Chocolate Cheesecake. There are no words.

Guinness is a dry stout; note that there are different types. Oatmeal stout and espresso stout spring instantly to mind. Espresso stout (available from many microbreweries) tends to have a much higher alcohol content than Guinness. When cooking with beer, the finished product's alcohol content will be negligible, due to the fact that it's low-alcohol to begin with, and the long cooking time for recipes like stew (and high temperatures used in baking) will burn off most of it.

If you want more cooking-with-beer action, Huggingthecoast has brought us a few beer recipes, which cover the entire year.

Getting smashed on St. Patrick's Day (aka "Amateur Night") is played out- cook with stout instead!

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