At the iconic Lucas Candy (@lucascandies) sweet shop in Haverstraw, New York, owners Deb Bertrand and Nick Loucas make beer brittle, a take on old-fashioned peanut brittle that substitutes water for craft beer. Using a recipe passed down by Loucas’s great uncle, the two begin by putting sugar and solid corn syrup, which makes will make the brittle less sticky, into a pot, before adding a chocolate and peanut butter porter into the mix. Nick and I are huge craft beer lovers,” Bertrand says of conceptualizing the mixture. “[We thought] maybe we should add beer into the brittle and see if it changes the flavor, and sure enough, it worked.”