Edamame is a good choice.
So is the Pittsburgh mill workers fave, pickled eggs.
For that matter, a lot of the old timers I knew back home would snack on Imperial whiskey with their beer.
eisbein
I’ve heard that Trader Joe’s sells lime-chile pistachios. Now I don’t drink, and I don’t eat pistachios as a snack, but for some reason the idea of beer & those pistachios appeals.
Susan
There was this concoction at the restaurant Betelnut in San Francisco that I easily made at home once, and I’ve never had better beer nibbles.
Quick-fry in a few drops of oil some diced scallions and thinly sliced rings of the hottest raw chiles you can get. I used some thin red “Thai dragons” but habaneros would do well. Use at your discretion! After a few seconds of stir-frying, throw in a handful of good quality salted peanuts. Remove from heat and put in a bowl, and now add some of those little dried whole fishies that you see in Chinese supermarkets. That’s right, whole fishies - they’re about an inch long, salted and dried. Toss it all together with a sprinkling of salt and serve still warm with very cold, icy beer.
God, this stuff is good. I haven’t had any in a couple of years, and should make up a batch.
Edamame. It’s really easy to make too-- just buy the frozen stuff and boil it for no longer tha 2 minutes. Add some coarsely ground salt, and there you have it.
I agree with the freaky chocolate chip cookie suggestion. For me, the sweetness of the cookie goes really well with a bitter beer like an IPA.
Daniel
I third (fourth?) Wasabi peas. They are so spicetastically delicious!
Cheez-Its and beer: proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
Huh. I just had a grilled cheese and an IPA, which was awesome of course. But then I had a chocolate chip cookie afterward, and it was really nasty with the beer. I dunno what I was thinking earlier. Cancel that bad advice.
Daniel
The problem was the hops in the IPA. Beer goes with chocolate, hops do not. Try that cookie with a Mackesson’s and see the difference.
Maybe it’s pale ale I’ve had with chocolate before that was so tasty. I know it wasn’t a dark beer: dark beer and chocolate is too overpowering, IMO (although I like black coffee and cookies, so I don’t know what I’m talking about).
Daniel
here you are: just in time for the superbowl!
my sister’s mondo-tasty dip.
FRAN’S HOT CHICKEN -
one block of cream cheese (8oz)
1 large can white chicken meat. or bake your own if you’d prefer.
1 or 2 oz hot sauce (i now use Frank’s Hot Sauce. be VERY careful with other types of hot sauce. i ruined the first batch i ever made by using Tapatio Sauce. too friggin’ hot to eat!)
3 oz crumbled bleu cheese
1 cup shredded sharp cheddar cheese
flake apart chicken.
nuke the cream cheese for about 30 seconds or so to soften it up.
add in all the cheeses and hot sauce and mix very well.
put in small baking dish and sprinkle cheddar shred across the top.
heat the oven to 350 and bake for 30 minutes.
serve hot with tostitos or fritos.
that’s the basic recipe. it’s proven to be so popular i now triple the dish and back off on the hot sauce and the bleu cheese because they tend to overpower the taste.
Balut? Are you nuts, man? Haha…
Jokes aside, I’m wondering if anybody here has actually had some balut. If so, what did it taste like? Having had grown up in asia, I’ve heard of the most and take it for granted. But Balut… that’s just wrong.
A salt lick.
My favorite bar snack here is a hard boiled egg with hot sauce.