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Abita Beer: Cooking Louisiana True

by Matt Morgan
(Beer Delegate, IL, USA)

Abita Beer: Cooking Louisiana True
By Marcelle Bienvenu and Susan Spicer
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As beer cookbooks go, this is the most well rounded reference guide you could have on your shelf.

Recipes as simple as Beer Brats with purple sauerkraut to complexities such as Chicken Etouffee. Cooking brats in beer or timing the fat and flour combination to create a brown roux, this cookbook is a great supplement for any beer lover and playful cook.

Cooking Louisiana True is a beautiful hard-cover 173 page guide to analyzing beer and cooking creole. It opens with a brief history of craft brewing and Abita beer, going into further detail of Abita Springs as a life-source to the wonderful clean flavors in all the brews offered by Abita Beer.

In this cookbook you'll find a terrific resource for judging beer using Dr. Morten Meilgaard's Beer Flavor Wheel which breaks flavor profiles into 14 categories and 44 easy identifiable flavors.

Did you scientests have found more than 1,000 identifiable flavors in beer, yet and experienced taster can pick out perhaps 100? Within the same pages you'll find an informative tutorial of the brewing process, proper glassware as well as color and bitterness charts.

Cooking Louisiana True also provides a guide to pairing beer with food. Soups, breads, appetizers, seafood, chicken, beef, pork, desserts, this book has it all. Over 60 recipes and hundreds of photo illustrations, Cooking Louisana True is a must have; what are you waiting for?