Cooking With Beer – Elysian Great Pumpkin Crème Brulee

(Courtesy Beer Institute)

Festive foods take on new meaning when made with serious beer. And with fall’s arrival this dish will impress, especially when it’s made with the perfect Pumpkin Ale.

This creamy custard dessert, which comes our way from the Beer Institute, a national trade organization that advocates for big and small brewers, was created for them by Chef Laurent Aubel.

Although the recipe calls for any Pumpkin Ale, we went with a classic that’s renowned as the world’s first, Imperial Pumpkin Ale.

Aggressively unfiltered and stoked to the max with pumpkin and roasted pumpkin seeds, Elysian Great Pumpkin is an enormous 8.4% exercise in “Imperialism” which created a beer style that is now widely duplicated at this time of year.

And the beer’s bold cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg spicing really inform Chef Laurent Aubel’s “autumnal” dessert…

So let’s do this!

Pumpkin Ale Crème Brûlée

Ingredients

2 cups whipping cream
1/2 cup Pumpkin Ale
5 ounces pumpkin puree
6 large egg yolks
1/3 cup sugar

Directions

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F

Place cream in a medium saucepan over medium heat, bring to a boil. Remove from heat and allow to cool for 5-10 minutes.

Add in pumpkin puree and pumpkin ale.

In a separate bowl, whisk yolks and sugar together until well-blended. Gradually whisk in the pumpkin mixture, stirring continuously.

Strain mixture if necessary into a separate bowl, then pour into six 3/4-cup custard cups. Cover each cup with foil and place in baking pan. Add hot water to pan to come halfway up the sides of the cups.

Bake about 55 minutes until custards are set. Remove from water. Remove foil. Chill custards until cold.

When ready to use, sprinkle sugar evenly on top of custard. Use a torch to caramelize the sugar until it forms a crispy top.

Allow crème brûlée to sit for 2-3 minutes before serving.

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