Mmm...Pork...
Mmm...beer...

I love food, and I love beer, and as a homebrewer I love to incorporate my homebrew into my food. I find cooking with beer can sometimes be difficult. I usually favor non-hoppy beer styles as most of the cooking with beer involves reducing it, thus concentrating that bitterness. For ales I use stouts and Scottish beers and for lagers I use Bocks or Vienna lagers most often.

Below you will find a favorite combination of mine: stout and pork. This recipe is super easy and can be done in a number of variations. I included some shortcuts at the end that work equally well.

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In this episode of Brewing TV, we profile a small-scale, small-town brewer, brew a pale ale back home, and talk about the significance of local beer.