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Beer Candied Bacon Bark and Craft Beer Lovers Holiday Gift Guide

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Servings 4 servings

Ingredients
  

For the Bacon

  • 6 strips thick sliced bacon
  • ½ cup brown sugar
  • 2 tbs stout or porter or pale ale
  • pinch cayenne

For the Bark

  • 10.5 wt oz dark chocolate 72% cacao content
  • ¼ cup stout or porter or pale ale
  • 1/3 cup smoked almonds

Instructions
 

  • Preheat oven the 350.
  • In a sauce pan over medium high heat, bring the brown sugar, beer and cayenne to boil, boil for one minute.
  • Place the bacon on a wire rack over a baking sheet. Brush the bacon on each side with sugar mixture.
  • Bake at 350 for 10 minutes, flip, re-brush with sugar mixture, bake for ten more minutes until bacon is a dark brown. Remove from oven, allow to cool. Bacon will harden as it cools. Chop the bacon once it has cooled.
  • In the top of a double boiler over gently simmering water add half the chocolate and the 1/4 cup beer, make sure the heat isn’t too high or the chocolate will seize. Stir constantly until chocolate is melted. Remove from heat. Stir in the remaining chocolate until melted and well combined. Stir in the smoked almonds.
  • Pour chocolate onto a baking sheet that has been covered with parchment paper or a silicone baking mat. Sprinkle with chopped bacon. Chill until set. Break into pieces.

Notes

A stout or porter will work well, especially a barrel aged version. For a more intense beer flavor use an IPA or a pale ale.