We are secular Jews. Mr. Ellebud is a WASP…but he is now considered Jewish by our friends and his relatives.
So…I make a fantastic brisket. Included in the recipe is two bottles of bear. A good beer…so, last year I found out that beer isn’t kosher for Passover. I really had no idea.
Is there a KP beer that I can substitute? Or a decent wine that won’t overtake the sauce? Yes…we have several people who come who DO keep Passover, but they overlook my non KP to be here.
thank you
Did you know that Ramapo Valley Brewery is the only Kosher brewery in the United States and the only brewery certified Kosher for Passover.
All of our beers have been Kosher certified by Rabbi Zushe Vosef Blech, 30 Mariner Way, Monsey, NY. Tel: 845-364-5381 All bottles carry our Kosher Certification symbol.
If you can’t get that KP beer, a dry hard cider should be a great substitute in almost any recipe.
Ellebud, can we have your recipe? Please? 
It sounds delicious.
second the hard cider
Yes Ellebud! We need the recipe!
Thank you! KKmama! I’ll try the liquor stores around here. And while we (nor do our guests) pretend to be kosher… I won’t knowingly serve something that is offense.
My brisket recipe:
Day before serving…
brisket–first cut
lipton onion soup (2 packages)
two bottles of beer
chili sauce (this is NOT spicy) two bottles
granulated garlic
carrots
Put brisket in a pan fat side up…add all ingrediants in a pan that you would normally use. Cover with foil Bake at 350 for 3 hours. Take out of the oven and cool. Put in the fridge over night. Next day…throw out congealed fat. Slice. About 3 hours before serving recover with foil and bake.
This is a very easy recipe…adjust the amounts of soup/beer chili sauce to how much meat you have. Like extra onions? Throw them in…hate carrots? don’t add them. The most important thing is to keep the pan securely closed with foil…
Now to find the beer locally!
Possibly Whole Foods at 3rd and Fairfax. Playing on the internet this morning, hehe. Brisket, yum.
Sounds delicious! I make mine the same way but use 12 oz of regular coke, and only one bottle of chili sauce. I’ve also made it with ginger ale. Both easy to find Kosher for Passover.
I will call Whole Foods. And I go over there fairly often…Farmer’s Market and Andre’s for take out dinner…I have never thought to use coke…I will try it another time.
@ bevhills-
If using coke and want to keep the recipe Kosher, be careful, standard coke is not kosher, because it uses high fructose corn syrup, and corn is a grain…they make special varieties of coke and pepsi during passover that uses sugar, or you can buy any cola like Boylans that is made with cane sugar.
For the OP, hard cider will work fine, it is dry enough not to overwhelm. Most liquor stores have some form of cider these days, just make sure it is truly cider (like Woodcock, an english cider), and not an apple flavored malt beverage and the like. Another alternative would be a good dry white wine.
There’s another beer I’ve seen called He’Brew that is surely Kosher.
There’s kosher, and there’s kosher for Passover - not the same thing. Someone elsewhere commented “Beer is made from fermented grain, which is about as unkosher for Passover as things get. Grain + water + time = not kosher for Passover.” I did find one reference to a beer made without grain. Hard cider does seem to be fine, especially if you don’t mind that it hasn’t been specifically authorized by one of the councils.
IF you have an hispanic grocery store (bodega) near you, you can probably find soda with sugar there as they do not allow HFCS in their soda South of the Border.
Coca-Cola which is Kosher for Passover has a YELLOW cap, very easy to spot. Of course, there are tons of kosher for Passover wine varieties.
Here’s the link to an article about Ramapo Valley’s kosher-for-Passover “beer” - if you want to call it that:
[Jewish World Review](http://www.jewishworldreview.com/kosher/passover_beer.php3)
And a link to the Ramapo Valley website: [Ramapo Valley Brewery: Honey Beer](Honey Beers)
Since they market it as “gluten-free” beer, you may be able to find it at a health food store. Otherwise, a kosher supermarket.
That recipe looks similar to one my wife uses which uses Manichevitz (sp?) in place of the beer. I guess it’s wine, although the word “wine” doesn’t actually appear anywhere on the bottle.
I will be going to Pico tomorrow to find the coke or the hard cider or gluten free beer.
My dil’s family is coming here for the first night. They know that we aren’t kosher. Or PK…They eat what they want, as we do at their house.
My son the groom wanted barbeque for the rehearsal dinner. We had 3 different stations: vegetarian, beef/chicken/and a pork rib station…clearly marked as pork. Worked.
But I am not in the business of offending people. I will not knowing serve something that I know to be “wrong” for this holiday.