Bierhaus Wagyu
A burger that went to Oktoberfest. Half a pound of Wagyu with house-made beer cheese, onions grilled with Sam Adams beer, Bavarian mustard and mustard aioli on a pretzel bun. The salty, chewy pretzel bun is the key, and the beer cheese makes it gloriously messy. Best with, unsurprisingly, a beer.
The story
Wagyu simply means “Japanese cattle”, and it covers four native breeds rather than one. Until the Meiji Restoration of 1868 those animals worked as draught cattle; eating beef spread in Japan only afterwards, and Kobe, a port with many foreign residents, became famous for it by the 1860s and 70s. The breeds are known for intense marbling. Japanese cattle and genetics were exported from the 1970s and founded Wagyu herds in the United States and Australia. Hopdoddy gives it a German beer-hall treatment.
What’s inside
- 1/2 lb Wagyu patty
- house-made beer cheese
- beer-grilled onions
- Bavarian mustard
- mustard aioli
- pretzel bun
Make it at home
There is no copycat of the Bierhaus Wagyu yet. Until there is, these recipes on the site come closest to it, judged by what goes into the bun.
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Peter’s Triple Bacon Burger - Shares beef, cheese and a double stack
Whopper (Copycat) - Shares beef, cheese and a double stack
The Mr. Smiley Burger - Shares beef, cooked onions and cheese
Viral Bacon Spiral Burger
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About Hopdoddy Burger Bar
Hopdoddy opened on South Congress Avenue in Austin, Texas, in 2010, and the name gives away the idea: hops, as in craft beer, and a “doddy”, an old Scottish word for a hornless cow. It was built as a burger bar for a city that takes both food and drink seriously, with beef ground in-house and buns baked daily.
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