Synopses & Reviews
Cookies & Beer is the first book that brings together two things that should never have been separated in the first place.
Whether you're a baker or a drinker with a baking problem, these pages will provide a series of guideposts for how to put together forty rockin' cookies--collected from celebrated chefs, bakers, and bakeries across the country--with craft beer. The information provides the building blocks for then experimenting with your own cookie and beer combinations.
Each cookie, like Steven Satterfield's Chocolate-Almond, Coconut Macaroons, gets its own specific beer (Avery's Brewery Company's The Reverend) as well as a general style pairing (a quadrupel). Along the way, Cookies & Beer will teach you how to make your own beer syrup for beer milkshakes, make it a night of Girl Scout cookies and beer, and even how to acquire and bake with spent grain (the by-product of beer brewing). And in the end, when you're ready for it, eight cookie recipes actually made with beer and devised by some of the vanguard craft breweries in the United States, are waiting to be baked. This is Cookies & Beer. And you, are about to be popular.
Synopsis
Learn how to pair cookies and beer in this first-ever primer based on the new trend sweeping baking and brews.
Forget milk and cookies, try cookies and beer.
Choose the right combination and a beer can be the perfect companion for a cookie. Cookies and Beer provides the foundation for choosing cookies and their complementary brew. From Chocolate Chunk cookies with English Pale Ale to Shortbread Cookies and Coffee Stout, each pairing includes a cookie recipe (culled from some of the best bakers, brewers, and bloggers around the U.S.), accompanying beer, and notes on why the two work well together. This information provides the building blocks for experimenting with your own cookie and beer combos.
About the Author
Jonathan Bender is a Kansas City-based freelance journalist, author of Cookies & Beer, LEGO: A Love Story, and founder of Recommended Daily, an online destination for local food news. In 2012, he was named "Media Person of the Year" by the Greater Kansas City Restaurant Association. His work has appeared in The Washington Post, Serious Eats, and Esquire.