Easy Beer Cheese Dip Recipe

This creamy, cheesy beer cheese dip recipe is great for parties. This pub favorite dip is great to be served with warm soft pretzels!

Why Should You Try This Dip?

This recipe is quick and easy to make party dip recipe that is insanely delicious! Beer and cheese – what more do you want to get the party started?!

Hosting a party? Or having friends over for game night? You need to have a killer appetizer to get the party started! This beer cheese recipe will fill in as an great appetizer.

This beer cheese recipe is totally addictive and you want to make a big batch, because everyone would be reaching out for this dip with pretzels.  A crowd pleaser and pub favorite cheese dip will want you to host many parties.

This beer cheese sauce is best served with pretzels – warm, soft pretzles. They compliment each other. But don’t worry if you don’t have soft pretzels. You can as well serve it with regular pretzels, garlic knots, bite-size pieces of bread, sausages, mini hot dogs, pigs in blanket or veggie sticks.

Hosting a party means you need loads of easy-quick appetizers to keep the crowd fed. Whip up an insanely delicious and totally addictive cheese dip in less than 15 minutes. Beer cheese for pretzels is ready to be served!

What Do You Need To Make Beer Cheese Dip

Loads of cheese, beer of your choice along with seasoning.

You’ll need :

• Cream Cheese
• Cheddar Cheese (extra-sharp cheddar is best)
• Mozzarella Cheese
• Beer
• Garlic Powder
• Mustard Powder
• Smoked Paprika
• Salt and Pepper to taste (be careful with adding salt, add only if needed)

What Is The Best Cheese To Use For Beer Cheese Recipe

• Choice of cheese makes a whole lot of difference. The best choice of cheese makes the best cheese sauce. And more the cheese you use, the better the dip tastes!

• Cow’s milk cheese is great choice. They have enough moisture and melt well in hot liquids. Cheese like cheddar, mozzarella, Pepper Jack, Monterey Jack are best cheese to use in the recipe.

• Stay away from hard cheese like Parmesan, Gruyere.

• Always buy block cheese and grate it fresh just before making the cheese sauce. Pre-grated cheese is coated with substance while packing. This will make cheese not melt smoothly.

• Do not cook this sauce on high heat. You don’t want to boil the cheese sauce. Cook on gentle heat.

• Add grated cheese slowly and keep whisking to avoid cheese lumps.

Which Beer To Choose For Beer Cheese Recipe

Any of your favorite beer would work! I’d suggest you to use a beer with light mild flavoured beer. It blends well with the flavors in the sauce without becoming over-powering.

Dark beer would not be best choice as it might alter the flavors of the beer sauce.

Lager, ale style beers are great choices.

Can Beer Cheese Sauce Be Made Ahead Of Time?

The cheese dip tastes best fresh. But if you are pressed of time, you can definitely make this cheese dip ahead of time and store it in fridge. Just before serving, heat it on gentle heat slowly in microwave or stove top. And keep stirring to help cheese melt.

How To Make Beer Cheese Dip – Step by Step Pictorial

Step 1 :

Softened cream cheese at room temperature to make it easily blend in. This step is crucial. To a sauce pan, add softened cream and melt it on gentle heat (on medium low flame). Pour beer slowly and keep whisking to blend into cream cheese.

Pro-Tip : Do not melt cream cheese on high heat or boil it. It will turn grainy and form lumps.

Step 2 :

Keep whisking and cook on low heat. until cream cheese is fully blended.

Step 3 : Stir freshly grated cheese. Sharp cheddar, Mozzarella cheese is my choice of cheese.

Step 4 :

Next add the seasoning. Add garlic powder, mustard powder, smoked paprika and salt and pepper to taste.

Note : Be careful before you add salt. The saltiness in the cheese might be enough. If needed, season and taste as you go.

Step 5 :

On low/gentle heat keep stirring to help cheese melt. Once cheese is completely melted, transfer to serving bowl.

Serve immediately with warm pretzels.

What To Serve With Beer Cheese?

You can serve it with almost any appetizer of your choice. You can as well serve it with regular pretzels, garlic knots, bite-size pieces of bread, sausages, mini hot dogs, pigs in blanket or veggie sticks.

Tips To Make Best Beer Cheese Sauce

• To help cream cheese blend easily, softened it at room temperature before you start making the cheese dip.

• Cooking on gentle heat is the key here. Do not cook sauce on high temperature or boil it. Cook softened cream cheese and beer on low temperature for cheese to melt completely. Be patience.

• Beer with mellow flavors and light in color are best beer to use. Strong beer might alter the flavor od this cheese sauce. Suggest you use lager or ale types of beer.

• Make sure to use freshly grated cheese. Pre-grated cheese in stores has a coating which usually prevents the cheese from melting smoothly. It might turn into lumps.

• Adjust seasoning as per taste. Taste and then season as needed.

• This cheese dip is best when served immediately, made fresh. If you are pressed of time, you can make it ahead and store in fridge for upto 2 days. Reheat on very low flame in microwave or stove top before serving.

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Easy Beer Cheese Dip Recipe

This creamy, cheesy beer cheese dip recipe is great for parties. This pub favorite dip is great to be served with warm soft pretzels.

5 from 10 votes

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Course: Appetizer

Cuisine: American

Prep Time: 10 minutes

Cook Time: 10 minutes

Servings: 8 servings

Calories: 211kcal

Author: Jyothi Rajesh

Equipment

• Sauce Pan

Ingredients

• 8 oz cream cheese softened
• 12 oz or 1 1/2 cup beer lager or ale
• 1 cup sharp Cheddar cheese freshly grated
• 1 cup Mozzarella cheese freshly grated
• 1 teaspoon garlic powder
• 1 teaspoon smoked paprika
• 1 teaspoon mustard powder
• Salt and pepper to taste add salt carefully

Instructions

• Softened cream cheese at room temperature to make it easily blend in. This step is crutial.
• To a sauce pan, add softened cream and melt it on gentle heat (on medium low flame).
• Pour beer slowly and keep whisking to blend into cream cheese.

  Pro-Tip : Do not melt cream cheese on high heat or boil it. It will turn grainy and form lumps.
• Once cream cheese is fully blended, add freshly grated cheese. Sharp cheddar, Mozzarella cheese is my choice of cheese.
• Next add the seasoning.
• Add garlic powder, mustard powder, smoked paprika and salt and pepper to taste.

  Note : Be careful before you add salt. The saltiness in the cheese might be enough. If needed, season and taste as you go.
• On low/gentle heat keep stirring to help cheese melt.
• Once cheese is completely melted, transfer to serving bowl.
• Serve immediately with warm pretzels.

Video

Notes

1. To help cream cheese blend easily, softened it at room temperature before you start making the cheese dip.
2. Cooking on gentle heat is the key here. Do not cook sauce on high temperature or boil it. Cook softened cream cheese and beer on low temperature for cheese to melt completely. Be patience.
3. Beer with mellow flavors and light in color are best beer to use. Strong beer might alter the flavor od this cheese sauce. Suggest you use lager or ale types of beer.
4. Make sure to use freshly grated cheese. Pre-grated cheese in stores has a coating which usually prevents the cheese from melting smoothly. It might turn into lumps.
5. Adjust seasoning as per taste. Taste and then season as needed.
6. This cheese dip is best when served immediately, made fresh. If you are pressed of time, you can make it ahead and store in fridge for upto 2 days. Reheat on very low flame in microwave or stove top before serving.

 

Nutritional Info – Please keep in mind that nutritional information provided is only a rough estimate and can vary greatly based on products used.

Nutrition

Calories: 211kcal | Carbohydrates: 3g | Protein: 9g | Fat: 18g | Saturated Fat: 10g | Cholesterol: 57mg | Sodium: 269mg | Potassium: 83mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 1g | Vitamin A: 740IU | Calcium: 202mg | Iron: 1mg

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