Beer mustard you must try
As the name suggests, beer mustard is simply mustard that incorporates beer into its recipe, either in place of, or in addition to, vinegar. Because these beer mustard varieties tend to be less acidic, their recipes tend to compensate by doubling down in spiciness. Beer mustard can be used just like any other mustard as sandwich spreads or in salad dressing or glaze recipes, but beer mustard is often complex enough (especially when made from heartier beers like stouts and porters) to stand alone as dips or on charcuterie boards. Here are some to try:
Steamworks Backside Stout Mustard. Made with Steamworks Backside Oatmeal Stout Beer, its formulation includes honey, chipotle and adobo spices, and dill, fennel and tarragon, so it’s a really interesting flavor here.
One of our favorites (but, like, that’s like picking a favorite child, so…) on this list is the Brew City Jalapeno Beer Mustard Garlic from PS Seasonings, with really good balance between beer, jalapeno and brown mustard flavors.
Bald Eagle Beer Pub Mustard. Bald Eagle is a small-batch brand out of Albany, Georgia, and this sweet and tangy mustard of theirs has a nice beer focus. (Also try their Apple Cinnamon BBQ sauce, which is weirdly good, too.)
Raye's Sea Dog Beer Mustard is an interesting one. It’s made in Eastport, Maine with well water, brown sugar and Sea Dog beer and took home a gold medal in the Napa Valley World Wide Mustard Competition in 2002. (Raye’s makes some other really creative flavors of mustard varieties to also try including the Winter Garden Mustard with dill, garlic and celery flavors, and the Spring Maple Mustard, which is just ridiculously good.)
Another small-batch beer mustard to try to is the Buzz Savories Spicy Beer Mustard, made in Nebraska. It’s complex and interesting, and not one element overpowers another.
Sierra Nevada needs its own category here, because they make several beer mustards out from their portfolio of beers, and all of them are good. Try the one made with Hazy Little Thing beer, their Porter Spicy Brown Mustard, the Stout Stone Ground Mustard, or their Pale Ale & Honey Spice blend. (The Porter, Pale Ale and Stout blends come in a variety pack if you want to make it a mustard flight.)
Along the lines of a big beer brand playing in the mustard area, you can’t miss the Guinness Wholegrain Mustard blend. It’s heavy on the mustard seeds, so it has that “drier” seed-forward consistency more than being like a spread, but it’s complex and interesting.
Plochman’s Craft Beer Blended Mustard. We’ve made no secret of loving Plochman’s as a brand, and rate their basic yellow mustard among the absolute best. This one is made with George Killian's Irish Red Premium Lager, which, admittedly, had us skeptical at first, but it’s worth doing, and Plochman’s is still in good standing with us.
Speaking of Plochman’s, their Kosciusko brand is another one in the beer mustard realm to definitely pick up: the Kosciusko Premium Lager Spicy Brown Beer Mustard, probably the most versatile beer mustard on this list.
Another great option is the Bertman Original Great Lakes Dortmunder Gold Beer Mustard, born out of a collaboration between Bertman Ball Park Mustard and Great Lakes Brewing Company.
Honorable mention to Sauer Frau Craft Beer Mustard Flavor Sauerkraut. It’s weird and squeezable, and the frau on the bottle looks pissed, but it’s damn good.