It’s hard to imagine anything better. Really hard.

Welcome Undergrounders, to what is about to become fly fishing’s dominant food:

Deep-fried beer

We swoon...

Deep Fried Beer.

(And not just any beer – it’s Guinness.)

I know.

Your head is spinning. Because it’s beer, only deep fried.

Sent via Alert Underground Reader Aaron (of Team Longboat, donate here), who found it on the PopFi site, from which we quote:

Mark Zable is my new hero. Zable is what you’d call a food inventor. He figures out a way to take existing food items and make them awesome. For example, he invented the jalapeno shrimp corndog and chocolate-covered strawberry waffle balls. Now he’s back, with his greatest invention yet: deep-fried beer.

That’s right, Zable has invented a way to deep-fry beer without overcooking it and burning off all the alcohol. While most of his methods are secret, he basically creates a salty shell of pretzel-like bread, fills it with beer (in this case Guinness stout), and sticks it in the deep fryer at 375 degrees for 20 seconds. That’s long enough to cook the bread to a pretzel-like consistency, but not so hot you don’t need to be 21 to try one of his fried beer snacks.

See, it’s even better than you thought.

It’s deep-fried beer – with a salty pretzel built right in.

Zable is debuting his invention at the Texas State Fair, but since the basic recipe has just been reported here on the Underground, you won’t have to wait.

Fire up those fryers (375 degrees), mix up some salty, pretzel-like bread dough, and let ‘er rip.

The only downside to this momentus discovery is that Fast-Breaking Deep-Fried Beer News will likely burn up all the news cycles right through the IFTD show, rendering the fly fishing industry’s annual frat party trade show all but invisible on the media’s radar.

From which we can draw two universal morals.

1. Timing is everything.

2. And nothing (nothing!) beats beer.

See you at the fryer, Tom Chandler.

p.s. – Frankly we think deep-fried beer would make a great appetizer – right before the main course of slaw dogs, followed with a Moonpie dessert… discuss….

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