Feed The Resistance: Black Bean Brownies are paired with “Diablo Belga” from Ale Asylum!

The original idea for this week was to turn the tables a little bit – normally, I cook something and then Dee is tasked with finding a beer to match with what I cooked.  This week – she gave me a beer, and said “cook something to go with this!”  The beer she gave me was a holiday brew from Abita called “Office Party.”  The beer has some chocolate notes, so I’ve learned (from Dee) to either play off that with a similar taste…or a contrasting taste.  I decided to go with a similar taste and made Black Bean Brownies from a website called Chocolate Covered Katie (I just love that name!).

That was the original plan – but then at the last minute, we decided that we needed to switch things up and drink an Ale Asylum beer, in honor of Jillian, the General Manager at Ale Asylum who died unexpectedly earlier this week.  We still ate the brownies, of course, but Dee found a great Ale Asylum beer to go with them.  She said that because this is such a heavy subject, we’ll drink a HEAVY beer – “Diablo Belga.”

This one’s for you Jillian!