Hi, Rebecca. I don't know if grocery stores near you do this, but in this neck of the woods we have a choose-your-own option in the beer section where you can buy one bottle of any kind of beer (a great help in testing these kinds of recipes, believe me!). Budweiser and Coors are lagers, which would work for the Whitbeer pound cake recipe. I think if reduced they might be ok for the cookies, as well, but they're not as well suited to the caramel tart or the porter cake. You might see if you can convince a beer-loving friend to part with one of those for a slice of the results? ;-) Susan

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