Pale ale brined “Trolls Wings” & Cuvée des Trolls BBQ Sauce

You might think I’ve been a bit too much lately? I guess with a title post as “Trolls wings” you have all reason to think so. Yet I firmly deny this presumption. Actually I used the beer for cooking. Ok I admit… Not all of it, but these wings are named after the belgian pale ale “Cuvée des Trolls”. Read on, find out why and thank my youngest kid for asking chicken wings for dinner.

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Trolls Wings

I’ve been interested in cooking with beer for a while. Some might remember the delicious “Hopus Mussels” or the “Beer braised Rabbit stew” I made a while ago. A friend of mine often brines his chicken in cherry beer. Believe me, they taste delicious! Recently I stumbled on this Hoppy IPA BBQ Sauce and based my BBQ sauce on this recipe. Since the only IPA’s I had at home were lonely bottles of beer I had never drunk before, I replaced it by “Cuvée des Trolls”. Hence the name “Trolls wings”.

Beer Brine

The belgian strong pale ale is slightly bitter and has some sweet citrus hints in it. An excellent replacement for the IPA I thought. Besides using the beer in The BBQ sauce, I also used it for the chicken brine I made based on the chicken brine I found in the book “Grill, Smoke, BBQ” by Ben Tish. One of the great BBQ books that didn’t made it to my “Book Shelf” yet. I still want to write a review about it but it seems I never get there… It’s a good book bringing something different than most “classic BBQ books”.

The result was pretty tasteful. Especially when you’re looking for something different these “Trolls wings” might surprise you. The “Cuvéé des Trolls” adds some fresh slightly bitter citrus notes to the wings on top of the delicious spices by my favorite rub. Yet I have to admit those wings made by my mate were even better. So I guess you can expect some more wings soon. Luckily my sons won’t complain. They were the ones begging to eat some wings again. They had some good memories on the popular “Blessed Bastard Wings” I made before. I recently noticed they got more than 10k views. How insane is that?

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- The Cuvée des trolls was used without any commercial links. I bought the beer myself and don't get money for promoting the product.

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