Desserts + Beer = Highly Unnecessary

messy eating cupcakeDon’t get me wrong. I am all for 2 things:

1) Women who eat, sometimes eat unhealthy and never look like this.

2) Mixing drugs with food.

But I cannot condone this new, hip trend of adding beer to your desserts. It’s everywhere.

Beer and popsicles. Beer and cupcakes. Beer and ice cream floats.

This confuses me, because beer is just so…heavy and Americans are gaining weight by the second with all of these fatty combinations.

Are we not getting enough calories with our pastries that we need to add hops and malt and yeast? Are we not getting enough calories with our hops and malt and yeast that we need to add sugar and butter and eggs?

A guy in the NY Daily News said, “A lot of beers work well with dessert because their flavor profile is similar to tawny port or sherry,” says Garry, who has 30 beers on his vintage list. “Beer with dessert is a concept that really works.”

For now, before we all get fatter, I don’t see these recipes popping up at college parties, because college students don’t give a crap about concepts when it comes to drinking. We want our beer and our beer alone. The only thing that should accessorize a beer is a funnel and a Solo cup.

Not a cupcake.

4 Comments on "Desserts + Beer = Highly Unnecessary"

  1. Bob Skilnik says:
    Mon, 10th Sep 200712:56 pm 

    The key with beer as a food accompaniment is moderation, that and knowing the nutritional values of beer. As you might know, current Alcohol, Tobacco, Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) regulations only allow that kind of information on beers that make a claim of being lower in calories and carbohydrates than their fuller-bodied big brothers, i.e., Bud vs. Bud Light.

    Information on the nutritional values of over 1,200 beers can be found here;

    http://beerinfood.wordpress.com/booze-nutritional-info/

  2. Lindsey says:
    Sat, 15th Sep 200710:17 pm 

    Hey man, at OSU we have a thing called Kegs and Eggs… fried eggs and beer? mmmmmm… let me go throw up before lunch

  3. El Duce says:
    Wed, 2nd Apr 200811:53 pm 

    One day when you grow up you might understand that this makes sense. You might even give up drinking that piss macro brew from a rotten dollar store beer cup.

  4. Norizzle says:
    Wed, 5th Nov 20084:55 pm 

    if you knew the first thing about beer, you would shut your trap, it is not a fad, infact the Belgians have a good grip on it, if you knew about beer you would know why too. ABout adding calories, do you think heavy cream and eggs, or beer is healthier? in recipies (once again, you must not cook either) beer replaces items suck as these… you should try it sometime.

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