Spiral pasta doesn’t work as well here, as there are no crevices for pockets of cheese. Pasta – Stick with short pasta shapes, either shell or macaroni which gives the beer cheese sauce room to hide in.Basically, you’ll need to make more sauce.
Do not skip over this section, this is where the flavor happens.Ĭheese sauce will be different for classic stovetop mac and cheese versus smoked beer mac and cheese. Let’s spend a minute covering some very important notes on how the ingredients will affect your outcome. My goal is for you to learn the process of creating the best beer cheese sauce so you can take it away and customize it to your preferences. If those words are all above your head do not worry, we will walk through it together. You are likely familiar with the process to create a roux, bechamel, or mornay sauce. The key to any good mac and cheese is the sauce, in this case, the beer cheese sauce. Maybe this recipe is more about how I don’t really want to grow up. There are definitely times where you just want to make mac and cheese for dinner too.
We’re going to focus most of the efforts on nailing the beer cheese sauce, and I’ll show you how to customize it to your preferences.Įvery good BBQ should have some epic sides, mac and cheese being one of those in my opinion. This bowl of comfort food is fortified with a creamy beer cheese sauce and then kissed with smoke for an added touch. This … This is a bowl of my favorite things