Get things hoppin’ in the kitchen: Cooking with beer.

Adding wine to a sauce or stock is second nature for a lot of home cooks. But what about adding a splash of your favourite IPA to your next recipe? We’re not just talking about a traditional beer batter. Packed full of flavourful ingredients like hops, barley and malt, cooking with beer can add bitterness or subtle sweetness to savoury recipes. With its rich molasses notes, dark beer is a perfect pairing for pork, beef, and chicken. Beer -particularly robust stouts and lagers—is also a wonderful addition to dessert recipes, such as cakes, cookies and candies.