recipe: chocolate stout brownies

i needed a yum dessert to bring to a fairly beer-loving crowd, and found a ton of amazing beer-inspired, beer-infused recipes. i decided to go with brownies (classic) from Foodie Crush, and omg am glad i did -- these turned out super-gooey, rich, and were actually one of the better brownies i've ever had - homemade, professional, or otherwise. i have a fear of making brownies and ending up with cake-like brownies (or... just icing-less chocolate cake?), these were more like uncooked brownie batter. YUM!

the recipe originally called for 1/2 cup stout, which reduces to about 1/4 cup... i used about 3x that as it very quickly evaporated. i'm not sure if that gave it even more of a rich, stouty flavor or not, but more beer never hurts :)

ingredients list:

- 1.5 cups stout

- 10 oz 60% bittersweet chocolate chips (i used a combo of semisweet chocolate chips & Ghirardelli dark chocolate 

- 1 cup butter

- 1 cup sugar

- 1 tsp vanilla

- 1/2 tsp kosher salt

- 3 eggs

- 1 cup flour