BUSHWICK — A Bushwick chef has come up with a way to capture the taste of beer — in butter.
Pizza Party chef Miguel McDaniel's new project Butter Recognize launched last week featuring a variety of unique butters, including beer-flavored butter made with Bushwick brewery Braven's White IPA.
Butter Recognize is under the umbrella of Creams Out of Brooklyn, Incorporated, an ice cream and butter-focused venture that McDaniel founded with his girlfriend Cobi Konadu.
When making the beer-flavored butter, McDaniel, 31, churns the cream with the beer itself, allowing the slight citrus flavor of the IPA to infuse into the butter, he said.
He imagines the final product would be good with soft pretzels as a bar snack, or even simply spread on toast, he said.
"It tastes like the beer," McDaniel said. "It's not an overpowering taste. You taste it, and you're like 'Yes, this is definitely Braven."
Pizza Party, the restaurant at 254 Irving Ave., will be offering the beer-flavored butter during brunch with toast in two weeks, he said.
Butter Recognize also produces other flavors, like a kale and lemon pepper, a garlic bacon and a Harpoon Hard Cider butter.
McDaniel started selling cinnamon sugar butter and Sriracha butter at the Bushwick Flea Market last weekend, at $10 for a half pound.
He won't be selling the Braven butter at the market just yet, but it's something he and Braven founders Marshall Thompson and Eric Feldman plan on discussing, McDaniel and Thompson said.
Thompson, who tried a whipped version of the Braven butter for the first time on Monday, said he loved the IPA beer-flavored butter.
With just a little bit of beer poured into the cream, the butter came out tasting just like the White IPA — light and citrusy, with the slight bitter kick of beer at the end, Thompson said.
"I've never had anything like it before," Thompson said. "It's our beer in butter format. It's incredible. Just having it with a piece of bread was really delicious. I can't wait to see what they're going to do with it."
For McDaniel, pairing beer with butter just made sense, he said.
"People like beer, people like butter," he said. "So I combined it."