Cooking With Beer – Hazy IPA Grilled Pork Shoulder

(Courtesy Sierra Nevada Brewing)

Festive foods take on new meaning when made with serious beer. And who doesn’t enjoy grilled pork shoulder, especially one grilled with a sweet and spicy marinade that’s made with your favorite craft beer.

This tasty recipe comes our way from Chico, California-based Sierra Nevada Brewing and it uses the brewery’s Hazy Little Thing IPA, a 6.7% ABV Hazy India Pale Ale with a fruit-forward flavor that has spawned an entire family of variations.

This dish is tropical, spicy-sweet, and ridiculously easy to make and Sierra Nevada’s best-selling IPA really supercharges the marinade behind this sweet-and-spicy grilled pork shoulder.

So let’s do this!

Hazy Little Thing Sriracha Grilled Pork Shoulder

Ingredients

1/2 cup Hazy Little Thing IPA
1.5 pounds skinless, boneless pork shoulder, sliced into 3/4-inch-thick steaks
1 cup pineapple, diced
1/4 cup sriracha
3 green onions, chopped
2 tablespoons soy sauce
3 cloves garlic
2 tablespoons ginger, grated
1 teaspoon honey
1/4 cup neutral oil, like canola or safflower
1 teaspoon sea salt
1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper

Directions

Step 1

Add all of the marinade ingredients to a blender or food processor. Blend until smooth.

Step 2

Place pork in a large, resealable plastic bag and pour in the marinade. Press the air out of bag and seal, massaging the bag until pork is evenly coated. Refrigerate for at least 30 minutes, up to 2 hours. (Don’t marinate too long; meat will become mushy.)

Step 3

Prepare a grill for medium-high heat. Remove pork from marinade and grill, brushing with reserve marinade, turning meat occasionally. Grill until desired doneness, about 8-10 minutes.

Step 4

Transfer grilled pork shoulder to a cutting board and let rest for 5 minutes. Slice thinly across the grain.

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