Bread Bacon and Beer Soup

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This soup is amazing! It's my new favorite soup! I think with any recipe, the quality of ingredients is important its final taste. I used a sweet onion and Blue Moon beer. It was absolutely delicious. The taste was smooth with no bitterness at all as some others have noted. The flavor of the bacon, butter, thyme, onion was sweet and rich. The beer and chicken broth added another layer of flavor. Everything meshed together especially when I added the white cheddar, for which I used New York sharp white cheddar. I like bacon, but I don't like a lot of bacon. I think two pieces is perfect for the batch so each bowl can have a little garnish. I followed the recipe exactly without increasing or decreasing any amounts and it worked perfectly. The only things I changed were the type of onion ( I didn't see the show so I don't know what kind was used and the type of beer. Fantastic!

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this is the first recipe on FN that i haven't liked. my husband would have given this 1 star. i used rye bread & an IPA beer, although i did have pilsner handy. the rye bread was too bitter, as others have said. i would use another bread, another beer, multiply the bacon & cheese ... but then that would be another recipe.

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We love this soup! When I first made it, it was a bit bitter and very tangy, probably due to the rye bread. However, we expected this. But here is the secret to making it great:

1 Use a darker, sweeter beer (pipeline ale, 2% fat tire, etc
2 Use 3x the bacon, and add it all into the soup before you
serve it. The bacon balances out the tanginess.
3 Let it sit for a day or two in the frige.

After our first tasting, I thought that if it sits in the frige for a day or two, it would either get more intensely bitter OR it would mellow out. Guess what? It mellowed out nicely! Everyone loves it!

Recommendation: try it again this way!

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I watched Dave make this and it looked great. However, it turned out bland and the beer was too bitter. We also made the Panzanella from this episode. That was amazing!

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I made this after seeing it on TV and it looking really good. But it wasn't as good as i had hoped. Add some garlic and hot sauce to add more flavor, and a pilsner was way to bitter of a beer. An american lager like rolling rock worked a lot better!