Can one really create an entire meal from beer? All signs point to yes. At least that’s if your meal consists of two dishes and a drink. Using a bottle of T.W. Pitcher’s Snake Bite, a hybrid of lager and hard apple cider, you can now add an extra kick bite to your homemade chili and cornbread. After all, winter is coming so what better way to enjoy it than with a nice, piping bowl of chili.

Check out the recipe below!

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Beer Polenta Corn Bread

Ingredients

• 1.5 cups of polenta meal
• 1.5 cups of unbleached all purpose flour
• 2 TBS. sugar
• 1 TBS. baking powder
• ½ tsp salt
• 3 eggs (whisked)
• 1/3 cup Mexican sour cream (regular sour cream can be substituted)
• I (12 oz.) bottle of Snake Bite
• 2 sticks (1/2 cup) of butter, melted and cooled
• 4 roasted Padrone peppers, seeded and diced
• 4 slices bacon, cooked and crumbled

How to Make It:

1. Preheat oven to 425. Butter bottom and sides of round cake pan. Mix dry ingredients in a large bowl.
2. Add in whisked eggs, sour cream, Snake Bite, and melted butter. Blend gently, just enough so it isn’t too lumpy.
3. Stir in chopped peppers and diced bacon. Pour into buttered round cake pan and bake for approximately 25 minutes or until top of bread is golden brown and a toothpick comes out clean. Allow to cool before slicing.

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Beer Chili

Ingredients

• 2 10 oz. packages of beef chorizo
• 1 10 oz. package of pork chorizo
• (not in casing)
• 4 14 oz. cans of black beans
• 4 14.5 oz. cans of fire-roasted diced tomatoes
• 1 12oz. bottle of Snake Bite
•  1 white onion, coarsely chopped
• 1 head of roasted garlic
• 3-4 roasted padrone peppers, seeded and chopped
• ½ cup of cilantro, finely chopped
• 2 tsp smoked paprika
• 1 tsp of red pepper flakes
• Juice of 2 limes
• Cotija cheese, crumbled (available in the Mexican cheese section of most supermarkets)
• Mexican sour cream (regular sour cream can be substituted)

How to Make It:

1. In a large pot over medium heat, soften the onion in 1 TBS of olive oil.
2. Add chorizo and fully cook, stirring often.
3. Add lime juice, padrones, pepper flakes, garlic, tomatoes, and beans. Let simmer.
4. Add Snake Bite, salt and pepper, to taste. Toss in the chopped cilantro and ladle up. Garnish with crumbled Cotija cheese, chopped scallions and a dollop of sour cream. (and ice cold Snake Bite, of course)