Categories: Comfort food

Ingredients

• 3 Ice cold beers
• 1/3 C Bread crumbs unseasoned
• 1/2 C Whole Milk - Even better homemade buttermilk. Yeah be fancy
• 2 tbls EVOO
• 1 Medium onion, yellow, white, Vidalia, It don't much matter
• 2 lb ground beef 80 or 85%
• 2 eggs large
• 1/4 bunch parsley chopped fine
• 3 cloves garlic - minced
• 2 tsp kosher salt or sea salt more if using pink salt
• 1 tsp ground mixed or black pepper
• 1/2 tsp red pepper flakes or more if you hate your butt hole
• 1 tsp Italian seasoning
• 2 tbls fresh grated parmesan cheese. Really, buy a brick. Don't use the bottled crap.
• For the glaze
• 1/2 C Ketchup. The good stuff. Like Heinz or Hunts all natural or at lease without corn syrup.
• 2 tbls brown sugar
• 1 tbls Worcestershire sauce
• Mix this together

Directions

1. - Open beer 1 – Drink half reserve remaining half

2. Take meat out of fridge and let it warm up a bit.

3. Soak the bread crumbs in the milk for about 20 mins. Stir while pouring in the milk. Not too much to make mush though.

4. - Heat EVOO 2 tbls over medium high heat

5. - Drink remaining beer. Open second

6. - Cook the onions until translucent. You’re trying to get the liquid out here so cook em, but don’t caramelize.

7. - Have some more beer

8. - Mix beef in bowl until combined and fat is emulsified. This is why we warmed it up a bit.

9. - Mix in remaining ingredients until combined

10. sh hands and drink the rest of beer 2. Open beer 3.

11. - Cover the meat mixture and place in a fridge for 1 hr.

12. - If you’re not done with beer 3 by now, try harder.

13. - Using wet hands. Just moist we aren’t throwing water around here. Shape into a loaf or two.

14. - Place into buttered loaf pans

15. - Cook at 350F until cooked to 155F or be fancy and put indirect on a weber kettle with cherry wood on lump charcoal.

16. - Once at 155F pull and add glaze

17. - Raise temp to around 400F and cook to an internal temp of 160F

18. Pull and let it rest covered in foil but tented. You don’t want to ruin that crusty tasty glaze after all.

19. After 10-15 min cut in to slices and serve.

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