The ingredients are simple - beer, cheese, and spices - and the result is delicious. Still, beer cheese is a rarefied dish not common in cookbooks or on menus. Garin Pirnia traces the history of beer cheese from its beginnings at the Driftwood Inn in Winchester, Kentucky, to today, situating it alongside other dishes such as the German cheese spread obatzda, queso dip, and pimento cheese.
The ingredients are simple - beer, cheese, and spices - and the result is delicious. Still, beer cheese is a rarefied dish not common in cookbooks...