Beeramisu (beer + tiramisu)

Tiramisu is the popular Italian dessert made of biscuits dipped in coffee, with layers of egg yolks and mascarpone. “Beeramisu” dips the biscuits in beer instead of coffee.
 
The dessert “beeramisu” has been cited in print since at least 1997.
 
   
Wikipedia: Tiramisu
Tiramisu (Italian: tiramisù; Venetian: tiramesù [tirameˈsu]; literally “pick me up”) is one of the most popular Italian cakes. It is made of biscuits (usually savoiardi) dipped in coffee, layered with a whipped mixture of egg yolks and mascarpone, and flavored with liquor and cocoa. The recipe has been adapted into many varieties of puddings, cakes and other desserts.
     
Google Books
Cooking & Eating with Beer:
50 chefs, brewmasters, and restaurateurs talk about beer and food
By Peter LaFrance
New York, NY: Wiley
1997
Pg. ?:
Offers suggestions for serving beer with meals, and includes such recipes as shrimp shell soup, beeramisu, and braised lamb shanks in pale ale.
   
Google Groups: rec.food.drink.beer
Newsgroups: rec.food.drink.beer
From: BeerFly

Date: 1997/03/25
Subject: Beer Desserts // Dessert Beers
 
Round Two, served after pints of ice water: Hand-made Old Foghorn ice cream with a Maple/Salvator sauce, served in a pastry cup (I was not nuts about this, the cold made the bitterness overpowering), ‘Beeramisu’ made with Chimay Grande Reserve (this was grand: moist, rich, complex tiramisu knockoff, liked this better!), and Chocolate Mousse made with Stille Nacht (good mousse, but I didn’t get a lot of Stille Nacht in it).
   
Google Books
Insiders’ Guide to Phoenix
By Deborah Ross and Salvatore Caputo
Helena, MT: Falcon Pub.
1999
Pg. 108:
When you get to dessert, you’ll find items that incorporate Hops!’ beer, such as Beeramisu made with espresso and stout, or a beer float using gelato and whipped cream in a glass of sweet beer.
   
Google Books
Best Places: Las Vegas
By James P. Reza
Seattle, WA: Sasquatch Books
2001
Pg. 97:
The daily fresh fish specials and the vodka salmon are awesome, while the desserts are incomparable (don’t pass up the Key lime pie or the “beer-amisu”).
(Tenaya Creek Restaurant & Brewery—ed.)
 
28 June 2001, Salem (OR) Statesman Journal, “Celebrate summer with old-fashioned picnic buffet,” Weekend, pg. O16: 
Desserts are a Beeramisu and Irish stout laced chocolate strawberries.
     
101 Cookbooks 
Beeramisu: A Twist on Tiramisu Recipe
April 26, 2006
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Paul’s Beeramisu recipe calls for ladyfinger cookies to be bathed in a deep, rich porter beer mixture that has been blended with strong coffee. Not a Budweiser can in sight. It takes its cue from its traditional cousin by utilizing creamy mascarpone cheese sweetened with a bit of sugar as the foundation.
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I made a few minor tweaks to Paul’s version. I did individual servings instead of a big family-style version and I used Italian ladyfingers called savoiardi, they are harder and don’t go to mush when you dunk them in the coffee bath.
 
Working Class Foodies   
Simple No-Bake Holiday Dessert Recipe: Thanksgiving Beeramisu
About this Episode
November 16, 2009
Oven too crowded with Thanksgiving turkey and sides? The Working Class Foodies show you how to make their award-winning recipe for a quick and delicious beeramisu.
 
The Age (Melbourne, Australia)
Froth and substance
November 17, 2009
Beer is muscling in on wine’s traditional territory, writes James Smith.
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The most recent — and perhaps biggest — public showcase for beer and food pairing was the appearance of Chris Badenoch on MasterChef, who introduced the world to the beeramisu – his tiramisu variant – and other dishes involving beer.
 
New York (NY) Times
Quick Bite | Sleepy Hollow
Comfort Food, With a View
By M. H. REED
Published: April 30, 2010
Some might remember Bridge View Tavern when it was called Goldie’s by the Bridge, in the 1990s. But, in fact, the Maceyak family has owned and intermittently operated a bar in this building at the river end of Beekman Street for 30 years.
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And among the homemade desserts is an intriguing-sounding Beeramisu.
 
Serious Eats
Guinness Week: Beeramisu
Posted by Caroline Ford
March 14, 2011 at 3:30 PM
This take on Tiramisu strays pretty far from the traditional. It calls for Guinness and Irish Cream instead of coffee and Marsala, but the requisite creamy, soft layers will surely please anyone crazy for this Italian dessert.
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Ingredients
1 pound mascarpone, softened
3/4 cup granulated sugar
3/4 cup heavy whipping cream
1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons plus 1/2 cup Irish Cream such as Bailey’s or Carolan’s, divided
8 ounces Guinness
36 savoiardi (Italian ladyfingers)
Small bar good-quality chocolate, for shaving
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COMMENTS
Good idea, but there are so many other great stouts out there rather than Guinness. I scratch my head whenever I see a recipe with Guinness anything in the title. There are some excellent stouts that even contain coffee and/or chocolate.
 
Bar Harbor Cadillac Mountain Stout
Goose Island Bourbon County Brand Coffee Stout
Founders Breakfast Stout
Rogue Chocolate Stout
Southern Tier Choklat Stout
Southern Tier Jahva Stout
mayan at 9:54AM on 03/15/11
 
I mostly just want to keep saying “Beeramisu!” over and over again. That has got to be one of the best made-up words ever.
basmatiheather at 6:05PM on 03/15/11