beers spirits and wines

Chocolate Coffee Stout Cake

January 21, 2011

…and here’s what happened to the Flying Fish Exit 13 Chocolate Stout… I decided to make a decadent chocolate cake with coffee buttercream, ganache filling and topped with chocolate shavings. Now what I’m about to tell you may seem like a strange thing to write but I really want you to know how I think [...]

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Monday Musings: Chocolate Stout

January 17, 2011

Flying Fish is proudly brewed in NJ and its home is just a minute away from the house I grew up in outside exit 4. So it’s been very interesting to learn that the brewery has started an Exit Series in tribute to one of NJ’s most well known features…the Turnpike! This particular one is [...]

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Dessert Wines, Too Sweet to Drink?

May 2, 2010

Every time I open the wine cabinet the dessert wines are staring at me. Mostly all of them were gifts. I like drinking wine, but we never seem to open these because they are overwhelmingly so sweet to drink. I should have thought of it sooner but I finally had an idea for another way [...]