The Tastiest Party Trick is Sticking a Red-Hot Poker into Your Beer

[Auggie]

The last two decades have led to an unprecedented beer boom in America, with all manner of speciality brews, niche regional styles and wild experimentation gaining traction in the beer zeitgeist.

Nowadays, it’s not so weird to hear that adding coffee to your beer is a delicious idea, or that slushy “smoothie” beers are worthy of the craft-brew treatment. Practically anything goes, as long as it tastes intriguing and adds joy to the hobby of nerding out over beer.

But I have to admit that using a red-hot steel poker to caramelize beer is, by all standards, a truly bizarre-seeming technique. The method is as simple as it sounds: You heat up a chunk of metal until it’s blazing hot, then dip it into a pint of beer, fizzing up a creamy head and cooking the malt and sugars inside the beer. Unsurprisingly, the technique is most commonly done with darker, sweeter beers, which some fans say makes for a flavor reminiscent of s’mores.

MORE (plus video): https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/the-tastiest-party-trick-is-sticking-a-red-hot-poker-into-your-beer

[Blue Owl]

1. Works best on a spring Bock beer

Europeans have been doing it for ages....

[underpants]

2. Fascinating

Thanks.

[MLAA]

3. One of my favorite jobs for a beer (Guinness) is to top off an Irish Mary.

Bloody Mary in a tall glass topped with an inch or so of Guinness. Gives it a creamy taste.

[DBoon]

4. The Hot Ale Flip has been around since colonial times

https://www.goodfoodstories.com/colonial-ale-flip/

[MayReasonRule]

5. Fascinating! TIL - - My Current Favorite is Jucifer from Gnarly Barley of Hammond, Louisiana

STYLE: Juicy Hazy IPA
ABV: 6%
FERMENTABLES: 2-Row, Wheat, Oats
HOPS: Cascade, Dry-hopped with Citra®, Mosaic®

[yellowdogintexas]

6. I would definitely go for that slushy one

My mom used to freeze Cokes to just the right point then when you opened one you could watch the slush form in the bottle.

The person who invented the slushie machine must have grown up doing this trick.

So anyway I decided to try it with beer and it worked enough to get me a good slush. At the time I had a really nasty sore throat and that icy beer was just the trick.