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We ate dinner at the Avelrade Brewery in Ghent last night. I broke down and ordered the hamburger with bacon, and their 8% Grand Cru dark beer. Both were excellent. In France barely cooked at all is the norm for burgers, in Belgium it's apparently well done.
The French are really good at cooking as long as it is their own cuisine, they really can't do other stuff sadly.
 
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Grass fed organic beef with cheddar and mayo on garlic bread. HB light lager to drink- happy summer.
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Eating out. Overcooked mushroom and onion burger with Swiss cheese. Ordered it medium rare, it came out well done accept for a bite that was medium well. Didn’t want to send it back and wait for a raw burger that they might have done nasty things to. Burger fully comped. I’ll add it, sans the bun and cheese, to spaghetti sauce. The beer was a local American blonde.
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Please stop introducing one of the world’s finest culinary combinations to other countries. It’s hard enough to score Hatch chiles in the PNW. Once this little secret gets out to the rest of the world, forget about it. I’ll never be able to buy quality green chiles anymore.
Over here we usually buy green chile grown in Morocco, this was French chile and it was excellent. Europeans label the origin of all fresh produce and meats so consumers know where their food comes from. My wife put the last 2 chiles in today's ratatouille, we'll see how her sister's family reacts at lunch.
In the US we live 80 miles from Hatch and buy at least a bushel every fall to get us through the cold winter, We used to live on the other side of NM and the chile we bought at a farm outside of Artesia put the Hatch stuff to shame. But when the farm owners retired their kids were not interested in farming so that source disappeared.
Update. The store near us has relleno sized chiles so we're having stuffed tomatoes and chiles tomorrow.
 
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Over here we usually buy green chile grown in Morocco, his was French chile and it was excellent. Europeans label the origin of all fresh produce and meats so consumers know where their food comes from. My wife put the last 2 chiles in today's ratatouille, we'll see how her sister's family reacts at lunch.
In the US we live 80 miles from Hatch and buy at least a bushel every fall to get us through the cold winter, We used to live on the other side of NM and the chile we bought at a farm outside of Artesia put the Hatch stuff to shame. But when the farm owners retired their kids were not interested in farming so that source disappeared.
Last year I bought a bushel of real Hatch and roasted and froze them. I’m down to just one or two vac bags. Only a couple of months till they’re ready again!
It’s hard to eat a cheeseburger without a slab of chile.
Last trip I made to AZ, I ordered a green chile burger at a restaurant and they made a roux w cheese and chile. It was tasty.
 
Last year I bought a bushel of real Hatch and roasted and froze them. I’m down to just one or two vac bags. Only a couple of months till they’re ready again!
It’s hard to eat a cheeseburger without a slab of chile.
Last trip I made to AZ, I ordered a green chile burger at a restaurant and they made a roux w cheese and chile. It was tasty.
In El Paso a few years ago I ordered a chile cheeseburger, forgetting momentarily I was in Texas, The burger arrived, covered in orange stuff full of meat and beans. Nasty burger.
 
"Reuben burger" at local brewery.. ipa in the mug.. so when we walked in and ordered our beers we always check the special and the bar manager is one of our friends and she knows this, so before we even ask, she says yes your gonna want to have the special.. told us it was a Reuben burger, and of course I was sold.
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