FBC Gets Back In the Kitchen: Baking with Gaspar’s Porter

We at the Florida Beer Company enjoy making beer and food pairings when we cook at home. It helps us get more familiar  with the versatility of the brews and see the  flavors really shine. By doing this we get a chance to see what compliments, intensifies or even makes an interesting contrast.

Today we chose to make, soft, chewy, chocolate and molasses infused cookies with Gaspar’s Porter. We also decided that making them into cookie sandwiches with home-made whipped cream was the most genius idea of all time. This actually helped bring the coffee, dark chocolate and roasted flavors together nicely to help lighten up the heavy flavors of  the cookie.

With out further ado here is our recipe for Gaspar’s Porter cannonball Cookie! Anchors Away!

Gaspar’s Porter Cannonball Cookie

 

Ingredients:

1 stick organic, no salt butter, softened

1 1/2 cups of unbleached flour

1/4 cup fair trade organic dark chocolate cocoa

1/2 tsp of baking soda

1 1/2 cups fair trade chocolate chips

1/2 Fresh From Florida brown sugar

1/4 Fresh From Florida Sugar

1 1/2 tbsp of organic molasses

1/2 tsp  organic vanilla

1 cage free organic egg

6 oz of Gaspar’s Porter

Whipped Cream

1 cup of heavy whipping cream

1 tbsp of confectioner sugar

1/2 tsp vanilla

– Combine the butter, sugar, vanilla, molasses and egg together and stir together, you can also you your mixer using the paddle attachment to help cream the butter. Once this is done, mix in dark chocolate cocoa powder, chocolate chips. Then pour in the flour and beer by alternating while stirring. Once mixed thoroughly place in fridge to cool dough for roughly 45 min – 1 hour. This will help the butter to reconstitute and make for a chewier and softer cookie.

– Once cooled remove the dough,  put small scoops on parchment paper on top of the cookie trays and place in  oven at 350 degrees for 15-20 min.

-While waiting for the cookies to bake take your whipped cream ingredients and whip them together creating a nice thick consistency.

-Once the cookies have baked and are cooled place a dollop of cream on one cookies and mash the two of them together.

We garnished our cookies with dark chocolate covered espresso beans from William Dean chocolates to bring it over the top!

Well we hope you enjoy our Gaspar’s Cannonball Cookies and remember to stay tuned for more recipes, pairings, beer releases and brewery news right here from our amazing blog!

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FBC Takes on South Florida Beer Week – The H is O

This weekend starts off the 2nd annual South Florida Beer Week! With so many events from tap take overs, beer dinners and new beer releases, FBC will be there every step of the way to guide you through this craft beer labyrinth!

South Florida Beer Week is a celebration of the deliciousness that is comprised of : malt, hops, water and yeast, AKA BEER! From your favorite local craft breweries, to the brews from the Rockies and abroad, we raise our pints with pride to usher in this week of splendiferous brews!

The Week is from January 19th through the 26th, and is from Jupiter to Miami! The weeks festivities caps off with the famed Jupiter Craft Beer Festival and Field of Beers on Jan 25th and the 26th!

Here is the official FBC event calendar for the 2013 SFBW!!      

January 18th

Riverside Market FBC Tap Takeover

6-8pm

facebook.com/riversidemarket

January 19th

Tap 42 debut of FBC’s Gaspar’s Porter and Devil’s Triangle IPA

7-9pm

www.tap42.com

January 21st

Total Wine Pembroke Pines FBC Sampling & Classroom Discussion

6:30-8:30pm

January 22nd

World of Beer Kendall and Coconut Creek, FBC Tap Takeovers

Florida Lager, Key West Sunset Ale, Swamp Ape DIPA, Gaspar’s Porter and Devil’s Triangle IPA

January 22nd

Total Wine Plantation, FBC Sampling and Classroom Discussion

6:30-8:30pm

January 23rd

American Social FBC Tap Takeover

8-10pm

americansocialbar.com

January 24th

World of Beer Clematis and Dadeland, FBC Tap Takeover

Florida Lager, Key West Sunset Ale, Swamp Ape DIPA, Gaspar’s Porter and Devil’s Triangle IPA

7-9pm

 

January 25th

Tobica Grill Jupiter, FBC Beer Dinner

8pm

www.tabicagrill.net

 

 

 

We at FBC hope you have a fun and safe South Florida Beer Week! Remember to Live Florida.Drink Florida.

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The Return of Gaspar’s Porter

In the recent months, we at the Florida Beer Company have been going through a rebirth of sorts. This change is part of our ever-growing mentality to become one of the leading breweries in Florida and in the Southeast. With our state-of-the-art brew house coming online here in a few short months, our fresh new image and most importantly our desire to create some of the cleanest, innovative and delicious brews, we at FBC have gone back to the drawing board. In 2013 we will be rolling out a few new core brands, limited releases, and one offs that are Florida inspired and themed.

Our first brew to debut this new direction and character of our brewery is a boldly redesigned robust porter that keeps with our brewing heritage and also ties in with Florida history and lore. It’s the return of Gaspar’s Porter.

The porter is named after the famed pirate Jose Gaspar, the last pirate of the Caribbean. Legend has it that while surrounded by the British, rather than be captured alive, Gaspar wrapped himself with the ship’s anchor and dove into the dark seas below. This brew was originally brewed by us when we were the Ybor Brewing Company. We decided the name was just to good to let fall into the annals of Florida brewing history, so we reformulated the recipe and brewed it bigger, better and stronger, just in time for the 2013 Gasparilla season!

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This 6.1% medium bodied, robust porter combines flavors from 8 malts including 4 distinct specialty chocolate malts (Victory, chocolate, rye and midnight wheat). These malts, combined with nugget and cascade hops, work together to provide a unique harmonious balance of aroma and flavor. Imparting a dry roasted malt character with subtle hints of cocoa, licorice and toffee, this brew possesses a balanced hop spice and malty finish.

You can find this our newest edition to the FBC family at Publix, Total Wine, ABC and on draft at your favorite local bar! Stay tuned for Gaspar events, Porter Pairings and recipes!

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