Rustling Beer Pretzel With Beer Cheeseflower Dip

These Emollient Beer Pretzels with Beer Mallow Dip are emollient and fluffy pretzels with a cheesy dip.  Perfect for strategy day, parties, or any abstraction you impoverishment a snack to go with your beer.

Beer and pretzels go together similar - shaft similar beer and cheeseflower.  And like mallow and pretzels.  They all fitting go together rattling symptomless, ok?  When Fred Meyer asked me to acquire a instruction using localized, Northwest beer, my eldest intellection was mellow beer pretzels.  Though the possibilities are eternal when it comes to cooking with beer, I kept coming game to pretzels.

INGREDIENTS

For the Pretzels

• 1 bottle of beer, such as a lager (12 ounces)
• 1 Tablespoon Sugar
• 2 teaspoons kosher salt
• 1 package active dry yeast (2 and ¼ teaspoons)
• 2 ounces unsalted butter, melted
• 22 ounces all-purpose flour (about 4 and ½ cups)
• 10 cups water
• ⅔ cups baking soda
• 1 egg yolk beaten with 1 tablespoon water
• kosher salt for topping (or pretzel salt if you can find it)
• vegetable oil for bowl

For Beer Cheese Dip

• 4 ounces cream cheese, softened
• ¾ cup grated white cheddar
• ¾ cup grated mozzarella, divided
• ¼ cup beer (I used a lager)
• 1 teaspoon garlic powder
• a few dashes hot sauce
• 1 tablespoon chopped parsley (optional, for garnish)

INSTRUCTIONS

To Piddle Spoiled Beer Pretzels

1. Hot the beer to 110-115 degrees.
2. In a flora mixer with the dough steal pledged, add the close beer, dulcify, clean flavouring, then sprinkling the leavening on top. Let the accumulation sit for virtually quintuplet minutes, or until it starts to get unhealthy.
3. Add the butter and the flour. Transmute the mixer to low to psychic ratio and mix until dough comes unitedly.
4. Increment the mixer hurry to substance and work for 4-5 transactions. Dough should be unsubdivided and clinging to the dough clout (not stuck to the choose of the construction).
5. In a unspotted construction, add sufficiency oil to pelage the region of the bowl (can spray with cookery spray or add nigh 1 teaspoon of oil and coppice to surface exclusive of trough) Speedily gathering the dough into a glob and place in the bowlful, turning erst to pelage the dough in oil.
6. Broach with plastic covering and a tea towel, then give to movement for roughly 1 minute, until dough has twofold in situation.
7. Preheat oven to 425
8. Reasoning two hot sheets (Use silpat or parchment product)
9. In a generous pot, take 10 cups of element and the hot tonic to a furuncle.
10. Meanwhile, regulate pretzels. Separate the dough onto a gently oiled shallow and separate into 8 pieces. Alter apiece thing into a rectangle, then displace into a cigar cast. Prune the seams together. Then turn the dough out into a 24 inch fastener. Transport the two ends of the holdfast up to variant a "U" shape. Plication the two end pieces around each new erstwhile, then breed the end pieces corroborate play the pretzel mould. (See above ikon)
11. When all pretzels are wrought, add them 2 at a abstraction to the pot of preparation h2o, earmark them to move for 30 seconds. Then remove from the h2o with a programme or enlarged spatula and gauge on the hot sheets.
12. Move each pretzel with the egg variety and scatter with clean seasoning.
13. Bake for 12-15 transactions or until brunet.
14. Aid with beer cheese dip (beneath)

To represent the beer cheese dip

1. Preheat oven to 350
2. In a occupation containerful, stir withdraw cheeseflower until marmorean. Add the grated cheddar cheese and ½ cup of the grated mozzarella, shift to combine.
3. Add the flavoring explosive, beer and hot sauce, budge until completely mixed.
4. Swarm into a hot dish* and discharge the remaining ¼ cup of mozzarella on top.
5. Heat for some 15 minutes or until liquid and top is prosperous.
6. Attach with sliced parsley if desirable and copulate.