No. 17Pickle Beers & Beer Cocktails
Hot Honey Pickle Beer
Sweet heat meets sour brine. Hot honey, cold beer.
A Hot Honey Pickle Beer is a light lager mixed with dill pickle brine that has been sweetened with chili-infused hot honey. The honey rounds out the salt and vinegar while the chili builds a gentle heat. It tastes like a sweet-and-spicy pickle chip in beer form.
21+Updated
Brine3/53 of 5
Heat2/52 of 5
StrengthLow
- Glass
- pint glass
- Method
- Built in the glass
- Time
- 3 min
- Makes
- 1 drink
Ingredients
Make it for
Units
Amounts for 1, in ounces.
- 12 oz light lager (ice cold)
- 1½ oz dill pickle brine (at room temperature)
- ½ oz hot honey (store-bought or homemade)
- 1 pinch red pepper flakes (for more heat) optional
- 1 dill pickle spear (for garnish)
- Glass
- pint glass
- Garnish
- pickle spear
How to make it
- Stir the hot honey into the pickle brine until it dissolves.
- Pour the honey brine into a chilled pint glass.
- Tilt the glass and slowly pour in the lager.
- Garnish with a pickle spear and, if you like, a few red pepper flakes.
Bar tips
- Dissolve the honey in room-temperature brine first; honey poured straight into cold beer sinks and stays put, and the cold lager chills the brine right back down.
- If your hot honey is thick, microwave it for 10 seconds so it mixes easily.
- No hot honey? Warm 1 tbsp of honey with a pinch of chili flakes and let it cool.
Drink responsibly. This one is for adults of legal drinking age. Want it without the booze? The zero-proof drinks are just as briny.
Full recipe: dillin.org/recipes/hot-honey-pickle-beer
