Stone's 11th

The anniversaries of many of our favorite breweries mark our calendars with exclamation points and smiley faces. There are some annual milestones that sneak up on us in wonderful ways. Finding the latest special release from Unibroue par example always makes …

Mezcal Sabbath Menu

The latest in our Sunday Sabbath series, recently we kicked back with some serious Mezcal (and beer and tequila and horse tranquilizers) and spent 4 hours cooking what amounted to a tiny lunch and a cute dessert.

Using some leftover, garlic-spiked …

Holy Matrimony

On our one and only pilgrimage to Belmont station in the old town of "P," we serendipitously stumbled upon a guided lecture by the head of the import department for one of the bet and brightest beer distributors in the country. While not every ale in the line up was mind blowing, the overall aesthetic of Shelton Brothers reads like a manifesto. Not only does this distro exclusively support the likes of De Ranke, the after hours brewers of XX, but they have a policy of only importing beers from brewers who produce less than a certain amount per year.

The kid tested mother approved ale we sampled in the video above, was a collaboration between two heavy weight of small batch brewing: Port Brewing co and …

Hot Chick Peas w/ Harissa

When we're super strapped for cash, the first luxury product we cut from our pantry is canned items. Sure a can of garbanzo beans sets you back, oh, 69 cents. But buying industrial-sized sacks of dry beans for $3/10 pounds feels thrifty. When it comes to …

Spaghettioz

News flash: If it's cutesy, someone's done it before. After a recent impulse buy of little round ring pasta, the obvious direction seemed to be simmering up some old-school Spaghettios, just with better ingredients. Not only did we discover we've been trumped …

The Found Abbey

For many epicureans, as with any other group of enthusiasts, there will always be archetypal representations of genre based perfection that are lost, or simply cease to exist. The fish that got away, is a typical lament for any manner of minutia masters and …

Emerald Chutney Salad

It being mid-September, summer salad season is in its last throes and our salad spinners are 'bout to be put away. Of course, being produce geeks and living in perpetual sun, we never fully hibernate from the greenery, if anything our kitchens start seeing more …

Fresh Fruit For Rowdy Vegetarians

Fruit salad is a rather nefarious term usually referring to some kind of fructose based nightmare suspended in gelatin that you reluctantly shove down your gullet at a friends' grandparent house, or a typical mish mash of randomly cut fruits and berries that …

"Kill Ugly Radio"

Lagunitas is one of the few breweries that has taken our pitch seriously enough to send us a box of complimentary "review" beer. That was about, oh, a year and a half ago: A huge-ass cardboard box came via FedEx to the Hot Knives offices (back when we were a …

Crewtons

Most our homies don't need encouragement to eat their leafy greens, but hey, it happens. For those who don't get salad (and they are out there, even amongst vegans), there is one and only one cure: excellent croutons. They can turn a plate of salad into a big …

The "Deuce"

Quite literally the champagne of beers, Deus Brut des Flandres is light and sparkly and -- if you ask some of the beefier beer advocates out there -- for girls. (This despite the fact that it's extremely challenging to not pronounce its name "deuce.")

It was …

Szechuan Soba Salad

Our great, grad school-bound buddy Aubrey "Bobby Beers" White recently high-tailed it out of town. But before she did, she broke out a box of packaged snacks from Japan, all filled with neon colored pickles, she'd been saving for over a year and we threw a …

Szechuan Soba Salad

Our great, grad school-bound buddy Aubrey "Bobby Beers" White recently high-tailed it out of town. But before she did, she broke out a box of packaged snacks from Japan, all filled with neon colored pickles, she'd been saving for over a year and we threw a …

The Eagle Has Landed

While we Hot Knives are mostly proselytizing beer and vegan food, we occasionally regress into fru-fru indulgences on the lactic/enological side. The golden hours portrait above was one of those moments where our collective epicurean id utterly trounced our …

Duchess de Bourgogne

And now for something completely different! Duchess de Bourgogne is not from the Western United States, contains almost no noticeable hops, mostly comes in 11.2 fl oz. bottles, and features one of the most neo-classically emo girly portraits we've ever seen on …

Hot Knife Cast: World Exclusive

Hello readers, get ready to become "listeners"! Our latest installment of vegan hangover cooking instructions (featuring vegan Catalan Toast pictured above) comes to you via sight and sound: Introducing the first of, we hope, many podcasts where we toss out …

Beer "Tasting" Strike Out

The jackass comment from one reader two months ago, who called us "cheap whores" in response to us dropping in on a schmoozy beer bloggers reception where we sipped for free, actually broached an interesting subject: Are beer writers, and bloggers, …

The Big DIPA

A number of breweries both known and not are releasing beers whose flavors don't really correspond to their determined class. When you take a sip of Gonzo Imperial Porter, one of the Flying Dog litter, it seems more like a regular west coast style stout …

"Almonds Beet Cheese" Salad

Rest assured, you will never come across a Hot Knives recipe for cashew cheese nachos. That's just not something we're OK with -- fake cheese in general, and nacho cheese especially.

That said, we're sick of being barred from improving upon the now-completely-clich

Deez Nuts

We figured that an assortment of awesome cocktail nuts would be the perfect accompaniment to the end of a huge bike ride, and the beginning of a beer bust. It was a model marriage.

These three nut recipes work extremely well together both in term so of …