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Beer candy?  Absolutely!

At this year’s World Food Championships, I was given the opportunity to host a live cooking demonstration showing guests how to use beer in desserts. While pairing beer with food is common, using a beer to actually create the dessert may seem foreign, and rightfully so.  As a culture, we are taught that beer is merely a beverage to be enjoyed on a hot afternoon and that…

Chocolate has traditionally been seen as a gift appropriate for women. But here's something that gives it a manly twist - beer flavored candy.

Beer has been used as a candy flavoring for quite some time now and is something that many chocolatiers are experimenting with. The earliest known beer candy was introduced around three years ago, by Nicole Green. Ms. Green is the proprietor of Truffle Truffle, an online confectioner. Their top-selling product is the "Beer and Pretzel Collection." The collection consists of goodies such as the beer-and-pretzel truffles and caramels, beer brittle and beer marshmallows.

BEER CANDY!!