Soooo, stout burgers never happened. I know, I know promises were made and broken and I am very, very sorry. But I just did not have the time this week. It was all quick meals on a lick and a prayer! However I do have a substitute for you. Beer braised pot roast! Now I have a wonderful recipe for a Belgium beer braised pot roast, but I thought since we just talked about Stouts, I would try and wing it. SUCCESS! This was definitely one of my better recipes. It was total fall apart tender beef with potatoes and carrots. I topped it with a gravy made with some of the braising liquid which was half beef stock and half oatmeal stout. I promise that stout burgers and IPA fries will be happening.....eventually. So throw this recipe into your crock pot and crack open a bottle to enjoy with it. Who says you can't have Stout in warm weather anyway?

Beer Braised Pot Roast
A 3 pound beef roast
2 large carrots halved and chopped
1 bag of small gold potatoes quartered
1/2 of a large onion, sliced
2 cloves of garlic, roughly chopped

1 Shallot, sliced
2 table spoons olive oil
2 tablespoons ,butter
2 cups beef stock
1 bottle oatmeal stout (I used Samuel Smith)


salt, pepper, seasoned salt, onion powder


Take the roast out and season it with salt, pepper, seasoned salt, and onion powder and let the meat come to room temperature. Heat the olive oil and butter in a medium high pan and sear the beef on all sides to get a nice crust. Put the roast in your crock pot and add the potatoes. Take the onion, shallot, garlic and carrot and place in the hot pan. Saute for 5 minutes until the onions have some color to them and deglaze with the beef stock. Stir the pan to get all the crispy bits off the bottom. Add the contents of the pan into the crock pot. Stir in the beer and cook on high for 4 - 6 hours. Mine switches to warm and I let it go all day like that. I strained out some broth to make a gravy to top it all off and it was amazing! Let me know how yours turns out!

This week's recipe is completely stolen from my friend Holly, who stole the idea from a bar in NYC. The bar serves these amazing Stout burgers with IPA brined fries. I'll be making these later this week, but let's talk Stout for a second.

A Stout is a dark beer that is made with roasted malt or roasted barley. This gives a deeper, richer flavor during the brewing process and results in a beautiful dark brown color and a roasted aroma. We have several different stouts to choose from including dry or Irish stout, imperial stout, milk stout, oatmeal stout, chocolate stout, coffee stout, and even oyster stout!

For this recipe you could use a typical Irish Stout, such as Guinness or Murphy's. But I think I am going to go with an Oatmeal Stout. Oatmeal Stout is a beer that has a maximum of 30% oats added during the brewing process.Now this doesn't necessarily taste like oatmeal in a glass. The smoothness of an oatmeal stout comes from the high content of proteins, lipids, and gums imparted by the oats.It also adds a slight sweetness to the beer.

Usually when I make a beef dish, my go to beer is Guinness or Murphy's. But I want to go outside of my own box here and try something different and I think the Oatmeal Stout is the way to go! So now I have to decide which Oatmeal Stout am I going for? Well that requires more research than I am up for tonight, so I will have to put my thinking cap on another time to decide. Have suggestions? Feel free to tweet them to @bierqueen. or put them in the comments section below. Happy drinking!

So, to all my loyal followers out there, I'm baaaack! I'm recharged, reloaded and ready to keep on cooking with Bier. Typing this I just realized I never explained why I spell Beer like Bier. It all started with a trip to Disney last year. Going through Epcot, well drinking my way through Epcot we took a long hiatus in Germany. I loved it of course since I am half German and clearly I love beer. So while in a Disney high, couple of beers fog I bought a shirt with the words Bier Queen. Bier being the German spelling of Beer. When I decided to start this I thought it would be fitting to my beer swigging German ancestors, as well as a way to confuse people! Keep checking back, as I will be making some sort of yummy meal featuring beer very soon. As always suggestions are welcome and don't forget to follow me on Twitter @bierqueen. Happy Drinking!