Recipes

Founders Long Black® is full of roasted malt flavour, and combines well with foods containing coffee or chocolate. The perfect accompaniment for this cake is a Tall glass of Founders Long Black served at room temperature. Founders Brewery/Café chooses to use organic ingredients when available for better taste and nutritional value.

A quick look at History Man has been playing around with beer ever since the first brew when an accidental fermentation of bread took place around 20,000 years ago. He went on to produce it intentionally, experimentally and intuitively, as we are still doing today. Brewing has a very long and interesting history and plenty of information has been written about it from an Assyrian tablet dating back to 2,000 B.C., Egyptian Tomb illustrations, early books and publications to the internet today. It has played an important part in religion, ceremonial occasions, and historical events and still graces the table of most social occasions in homes around the world. Brewing is an Art and a Science and a fascination to every visitor to the Brewhouse – how we get this delicious beverage from 4 simple ingredients! Originally beer often replaced water where a clean supply was unavailable, and valued for its health giving properties. Today it’s all about TASTE, PLEASURE AND GOOD COMPANY. • Why Cook with beer? To introduce specific flavours and aromas in your food – like the bitterness of hops, or the intensiveness of malt in grain. Because of all the healthy components in malt, like B vitamins and cleansing isoflavonoids, the hops with it’s cleaning, cancer fighting characteristics and the alcohol which in moderation is good for our veins, brain and heart. • Basic Rules First choose your food dish, then a beer. The food and the beer must have the same taste intensity. A light tasting beer with a light dish. A tastier beer with a spicier dish. You can minimize the risk, by thinking of ale as being like red wine and lager as white wine. But there are lots of exceptions! Strive for harmony between sour, sweet and bitter in dish. Once you get that right - experiment with contrasts! Some examples – A robust stew with a full bodied ale or a contrast – a crisp, refreshing lager with a heavy cream soup. Have fun, remember Beer is not only a drink – it’s a FOOD!