Oatmeal Stout Chocolate Chili [Recipes]
[Editors Note: It's our pleasure to welcome another new author to our site! Chef John joins our team today along with the launch of a new recipes section on our site! Chef John has been a good friend of ours for many years and we're really excited to have him on board. He made some smoked beer can chicken tacos with pumpkin mole sauce this past fall and ever since then we've wanted him to do some writing for us. We hope you enjoy his first contribution to the site as much as we did. ]
While spending a Saturday night with good company and great cocktails at Backbar , a new spot in the heart of Union Square in Somerville, I was listening to Jeff and Devon talk about their next tasting at Taza. After a while they asked me if i would be interested in writing food recipes for their website. I'm always up for creating a new recipe so I was more than happy to. With beer and chocolate in mind, I figured, what would be better than a great chili? The Superbowl was right around the corner which gave me a great audience to test it out. This recipe provides great depth of flavor. When you take your first bite the oatmeal stout adds a richness and malt flavor. Then, the chocolate brings a dark color and sweetness. When you think it's over, you get hit with an onslaught of fire roasted peppers. It is great as a warm bowl topped with tortilla strips and slices of avocado and is also thick enough for a dip. Give it a try and let me know what you think!
Ingredients:
2 oz Olive Oil
1/2 Spanish Onion Small Dice
5 Cloves Chopped Garlic
2 Serrano Chilis Fire Roasted, Peeled and Diced
1 Jalapeno Pepper Fire Roasted, Peeled and Diced
2 Poblano Peppers Fire Roasted, Peeled and Diced
2 Chipotles in Adobo Diced
3oz Adobo Sauce
1 1/2 lb Beef Brisket Medium Dice
12oz Mayflower Winter Oatmeal Stout
2 discs Guajillo Taza Chocolate (2.7oz)
1 disc Coffee Taza Chocolate (1.3oz)
2 oz Oregano
2 oz Whole Cumin Toasted and Ground
16oz Can Whole Tomatoes
32 oz Beef Stock
Salt To taste
Topping:
4 Corn Tortillas Cut in Strips and Baked
Sliced Avacado
Chopped Scallion
Sour Cream
Cooking Instructions:
1. Roast Peppers on Grill or on top of a gas range. If you do not have access to either you can coat them in oil and roast in the oven. Once charred cover for 10 minutes. Run under water and peel off skin, then chop.
2. Saute onion and peppers in oil in stock pot
3. Add brisket and cook util browned
4. Add garlic and cook for 1 minute
5. Add oatmeal stout and simmer for 5 minutes
6. Toast cumin seeds in a small skillet until golden brown, grind
7. Add toasted and ground cumin, oregano, chipotles, adobo and Taza chocolates
8. Add canned tomatoes
9. Add 8 oz beef stock and simmer every half hour for 2 hours until brisket is tender.
10. Top with baked tortilla strips, sliced avocado, scallions and sour cream.
Enjoy!
Chef John
Add a commentLagunitas Sucks Holiday Ale [Beer Review]
Every year fans of Lagunitas Brewing Company (based in Petaluma, CA) look forward to their winter seasonal, Brown Shugga’. This year, because of the enormous growth they’ve done in the past couple years, they were stretching their capacity to the max. The result? There was no way they could brew Brown Shugga. Unfortunately, the beer takes a long time to develop in fermentation tank before it’s ready to be shipped and that meant they’d miss out on brewing several batches of their flagships. There was no way that Lagunitas could cause even more of a supply shortage of their deliciously hoppy ales. So what did they do? With their typical style, they brewed up Lagunitas Sucks Holiday Ale Brown Shugga’ Substitute, a super hopped IPA that was faster to ferment and didn’t tie up much needed capacity. Well, turns out it was a pretty good beer and the readers of Drink Craft Beer voted it their favorite new brew of 2011. Somehow we haven’t tried it until now, so I’m just going to dive right in!
Lagunitas Sucks pours a beautifully clear, rich golden hue with a puffy white head on top. For real, this thing just looks like a West Coast IPA! It looks hoppy. Maybe this is the reputation proceeding it (it was the top new craft beer in the Drink Craft Beer Top 11 Craft Beers of 2011: Readers’ Choice Edition), but I can’t wait to try this one.
Just as I expected from the appearance (and the aforementioned reputation), it smells super hoppy! It’s not so much oily hops as bright, citrus hops. There’s some sweetness to it, but I can’t tell if that’s the malt acting up or just something I’m getting from those little green lupulin cones of deliciousness.
And the first sip just confirms everything I said above. It’s hoppy! Not just bitter. Not just flavor. It’s hoppy...like, really hoppy. The bitterness is balanced, but asserts itself on the back of your tongue. As soon as it hits your lips, though, your entire mouth is awash in a sea of orange citrus hops. I’ve rarely tasted anything like it. We’ve had a lot of clementines around the house lately and, honestly, that’s what it’s reminding be of: biting into a ripe clementine. It’s juicy, it’s sweet...but not from the malt it doesn’t seem...it’s orangey and it’s a bit tangy even. I would totally believe that they put orange in this. But they didn’t. Just 63.21 IBUs (that’s an astoundingly accurate number...and, for those keeping score at home, no way are they actually able to be this accurate) of pure hop goodness. I can see why this was our readers’ favorite of 2011!
I bought a single 12oz bottle of this craft beer at Craft Beer Cellar in Belmont.
Pre-Extreme Beer Fest Lunch at B. Good
A beer fest is a great place to try all sorts of new brews. Extreme Beer Fest is especially good for this, as there are tons of choices that are rare or that you might never see again. Obviously you want to try quite a few!
If you're going to be sampling, though, you should lay down a good base of food in your stomach first. Something solid, but not too heavy. Filling, but good quality ingredients. Luckily, we've got just the thing for you!
On Saturday, February 4th, 2012 Devon and Jeff from Drink Craft Beer are going to be at the Dartmouth Street B. Good from 11:45am until we leave for Extreme Beer Fest (probably around 12:30 or 12:45). B. Good is the Official Pre-Beer Fest Lunch Spot of Drink Craft Beer. The first eight people to come by and say hi to us will get a free lunch, courtesy of B. Good! If you're going to Extreme Beer Fest, this will be a great pre-fest lunch. If not, well, you still need a tasty lunch!
We'll be wearing our Drink Craft Beer t-shirts, so find just find us. First eight will get a free lunch.
When:
Saturday, February 4th, 2012
11:45am-12:30pm (possibly 12:45pm)
Where:
B. Good
131 Dartmouth Street
Boston, MA 02116
What:
First eight people to say hi get a free lunch from B. Good.
We've worked with B. Good in the past with some delicious results, this is not one to miss:
Burgers And Beer, Need We Say More?
Burgers Aren't Just For Summer - Burger And Beer Pairing With B. Good
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