Beer candied bacon

Fathers day is upon us and of course we will be spoiling our daddy with lots of treats and gifts, hugs and kisses to let him know how much we love him so.  We will also be in the kitchen whipping up a batch of beer candied bacon, they say the way to a mans heart is through his stomach and what man doesn't like bacon, Daddy just loves his rashers so we thought we would try this recipe out from tide and thyme.  If your interested in curing your own bacon have a look at this link on home curing 

With only 3 ingredients and very little effort your daddy could be supping down an ice cold beer and snacking on a tasty bacon snack.

All you need is 1/2 cup of brown sugar and 1/4 cup of beer or stout , we used Mackeson stout as it has a nice deep rich flavour.  mix these up into a bowl to make a syrup ready to coat the bacon.

 We choose some good quality streaky bacon and laid this out over a wire rack that we had placed over a tray wrapped in foil as the tray can get a bit sticky and messy plus you can scoop up some of the spilled syrup and paste this on the bacon as it tends to thicken and is good for coating the bacon.

 Put the bacon in the oven coated in syrup and cook at 200c for 10 mins then flip coat and cook for 10 mins after the second 10 mins the bacon may need another coating and 5-10 mins in the oven.

 Once cooked allow to cool where the bacon will go hard and crispy, present to your daddy with a nice cold beverage and let him enjoy.