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!