Beer Brine
- Ready In:
- 25mins
- Ingredients:
- 8
- Yields:
-
1 quart
ingredients
- 1 tablespoon whole black peppercorn
- 2 sprigs fresh thyme
- 2 -3 bay leaves
- 6 garlic cloves, peeled and sliced
- 3 cups water
- 1⁄2 cup kosher salt
- 1⁄4 cup brown sugar
- 12 ounces lager beer
directions
- Place peppercorns, thyme, bay, garlic, water, salt, and brown sugar in a saucepan,.
- and heat to a boil, stirring until salt and brown sugar dissolves and mixture becomes.
- mostly clear.
- Remove from heat and stir beer. Allow to cool.
- Pour mixture over selected meat (chicken, pork, turkey, etc) in a food safe container or plastic bag, ensuring that meat is covered (make more brine if needed).
- Refrigerate meat and allow to brine for about 12 hours.
- Then remove meat from brine and pat dry, afterwards cooking as desired.
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Reviews
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Excellent Beer-Based chicken Brine. I heated the water to a boil FIRST, then stirred in the Sugar and Salt only, as these would be the only two Dissolve-ables. After they were dissolved, then I stirred in the remaining ingredients and Beer. It was excellent on simple, grilled chicken breast. Made it much more tender than actual TENDERS! No more dry chicken!
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