It absolutely matters. I've made beer brats with shitty beer before and it does make a difference in the flavor. Not saying you should cook with craft beer, but a decent beer is only a few bucks more than Budweiser.
While I agree with what you're saying on some level, as someone who has cooked with beer on a number of occasions I gotta say a more flavourful beer almost always turns out better... And it's not like good beer is expensive like wine or bourbon or scotch or something anyway. I've actually cooked with budweiser & bud lite, and I've cooked with actual good flavourful microbrewed beer, the flavour imparted is almost always noticeable in a good way.
for example, make a rarebit with a budweiser, then go out and get like a sam adams or something rich like a saint ambroise oatmeal stout or something like that, compare the cheese sauce even though it has dairy/butter etc., the budweiser one will just taste 'flatter'. (2/2)
I’ve started steaming them in foil with a little chicken bullion, peppers and onions. Then grilling the brats and sautéing the veg 😋 but I’d be interested in trying this out for funsies
At the border crossing from MN to WI they search you at the border to make sure you have no vegetables on you. They immediately deep fry any they confiscate to defuse them.
Beer is an almost vegetable. Also, I'm an American socialist, we don't hate vegetables..... As much. I would've put some chives and onion salt in the beer cheese at least.
You just gotta use the right vegetables, get some tomatoes, puree them, spread them over some thin bread dough, maybe put a little cheese on top, a little meat.... oh i made pizza again
As a bloke from WI, lemme tell ya the best beer brats I can make get marinated overnight in beer + rosemary, onion, and garlic. Then use that same marinade for the above procedure, simmering the brats first and then grilling them over charcoal. Propane is fine if you have no alternative, but charcoal is preferred. Low and slow is the key to browning them. If you're going to make beer cheese don't use the marinade, or at least run it through some cheese cloth to get the herbs and aromatics out.
017renegade
I think it's great for the US to have something called "tasty cheese"!
MaintenanceGuyHere
Nope, can't do it, can't put cheese on a brat. Needs sauerkraut
SomeUser2
"beer" shows adding sewer plant water
Copperbrat
killbillsexwife
OMG
Jimbo1956
It’s not a real brat with without sauerkraut!
nik282000
10/10
MyBackHurtz
Have you actually tried this? Man, it looks absolutely gross to me ... but if you say 10 ...
ShabaDababa
Why is every recipe a couple of steps and then smother everything in cheese. Seems like people can't cook and just enjoy the taste of cheese.
PutItInMyUsb
Americans really need to learn how to cook, it's always meat and cheese or peanutbutter and jam, or pop tarts. Or all together. I know I'm a douche
heathencommuter
Incorrect: these are not beer brats because that's not beer.
buprof
Wharmpiss
Ebo352
Forgot the onions
PersonalityPrototype
God I would fuck that up right now
kaijuuGold
noice
sakasiru
Or you just drink the beers while grilling the sausages and eat them with a proper mustard.
ThisUsernameWasntTakenIGuess
This video screams Wisconsin
MaintenanceGuyHere
Hi, Wisconsin here. The fuck it does, this is a crime being recorded
RFT42
Do you use the same beer you boiled the brats in for the cheese sauce, or a fresh beer?
Tajik
That's what i want to know.
randomdudefromtheinternet
As a German i have to say this doesn't look like Bratwurst or Beer to me
SeeJenJen
We save the actual beer for drinking. Braising liquid is not it. Prost!
greyStalkerTheTerror
Yeah i saw it say beer but never saw any
DerScheiss
And that mein Deutscher freund is why the US produced 49,000 tanks in the 40s.
randomdudefromtheinternet
Really, that many?
cyno01
And for a side... /gallery/VV50M9P
IllDoAnythingForFood
Why the f would you use budweiser, might as well use Toilet water
rshini
With beer-battered recipes, it doesn't matter long as it isn't flat, the subtleties get cooked out.
Copperbrat
Very little point to using the good stuff to cook with. Especially if you're adding fat/dairy.
cacapoop
It absolutely matters. I've made beer brats with shitty beer before and it does make a difference in the flavor. Not saying you should cook with craft beer, but a decent beer is only a few bucks more than Budweiser.
TheLastBootyBender
I made a beer cheese soup this week, used a Polish lager called Zubr, can definitely taste the difference.
ShooterMcGrabbin
While I agree with what you're saying on some level, as someone who has cooked with beer on a number of occasions I gotta say a more flavourful beer almost always turns out better... And it's not like good beer is expensive like wine or bourbon or scotch or something anyway. I've actually cooked with budweiser & bud lite, and I've cooked with actual good flavourful microbrewed beer, the flavour imparted is almost always noticeable in a good way.
ShooterMcGrabbin
for example, make a rarebit with a budweiser, then go out and get like a sam adams or something rich like a saint ambroise oatmeal stout or something like that, compare the cheese sauce even though it has dairy/butter etc., the budweiser one will just taste 'flatter'. (2/2)
chefvalli
This 👆. And also for your username.
swedeonamoose
Tbh i would advice against giving your brat beer, the attitude problems just get way worse.
trythebleucheese
"So are you all like Bratz or Barbies?"
"Yes, barbecue."
IYKYK
DildoMussolini
Gross
FeloniousMonk13
As delicious as this looks, I can't bring myself to believe that the first step is gonna add to or enhance the flavor of the brats
stevencloser
German here: we don't cook them in beer, but sprinkling a little on top while grilling is fairly common and they do taste different.
hardytardigrade
It might. And if you use that same beer for the cheese sauce, the brats are surely going to enhance the flavor of the beer
imreallyjusthereforthecats
Add some stone ground mustard to that cheese sauce. Grill up some onions also
thefishbulb
Sprig of thyme won't hurt either.
imreallyjusthereforthecats
Now we’re talking
nqwazi
Welsh rarebit incoming :)
imreallyjusthereforthecats
Mmmmhmmmm
DangerRNGR
Sweat and brown the onions in that pot first, take em out and deglaze that onion goodness into the beer and brats.
RandyRandalman
This is the fuckin WAY
TheHappyCreator
And baby, you got yourself a stew going.
FireJake
skippieelove
skippieelove
I’ve started steaming them in foil with a little chicken bullion, peppers and onions. Then grilling the brats and sautéing the veg 😋 but I’d be interested in trying this out for funsies
kakistocratxvi
What do Americans hate more: socialism or vegetables?
LucidPariah
I thought it was poor people, minorities and immigrants. But apparently it's vegetables
FallenJester
At the border crossing from MN to WI they search you at the border to make sure you have no vegetables on you. They immediately deep fry any they confiscate to defuse them.
Sonicschilidogs
Beer is an almost vegetable. Also, I'm an American socialist, we don't hate vegetables..... As much. I would've put some chives and onion salt in the beer cheese at least.
JeanLucguizamos
You just gotta use the right vegetables, get some tomatoes, puree them, spread them over some thin bread dough, maybe put a little cheese on top, a little meat.... oh i made pizza again
Copperbrat
Technically this recipe has vegetables. We use hops in the beer, mkay?
Sfingks
That's an herb
Gayforbae
Socialist vegetables.
HighSorcerer
We only hate socialism when it's used for helping poor people.
Teganrose1
Vegetables are delicious, but sadly expensive
dudethisbetternotbetaken
Maybe their priests told them that veggies make them gay?
Qrader
I live with one. Can confirm it's vegetables
Marikhen
What has your vegetable done that makes you hate it so?
oprahslovechild
Yeah, I’m a bad American, i hear it a lot. I love both of those things.
Hekatombe
So that is how you deal with brats? Thanks
pxlphile
But doesn't get you IamAGoodNoodleStars
ILikeFood2000
There's no such thing as a tough child - if you parboil them first for seven hours, they always come out tender.
W.C. Fields
GhostOfAnrui
Spare the grille, spoil the child..
THUB
I've had reasonable luck with spanking them too.
GabbyJayYay
And withholding "rewards"
HighSorcerer
As a bloke from WI, lemme tell ya the best beer brats I can make get marinated overnight in beer + rosemary, onion, and garlic. Then use that same marinade for the above procedure, simmering the brats first and then grilling them over charcoal. Propane is fine if you have no alternative, but charcoal is preferred. Low and slow is the key to browning them. If you're going to make beer cheese don't use the marinade, or at least run it through some cheese cloth to get the herbs and aromatics out.
ILikeFood2000
Why get rid of the herbs? .. hm I guess the flavor is gone by then, mostly. Maybe get rid of the old herbs, and add new?
HighSorcerer
The only herb is rosemary and you just throw the whole stick of it in there. You don't want that in what's supposed to be a smooth cheese sauce.