Our growing edge.... beer burgers!!!

Encourage by our friend and chef Chandler Tomayco (http://thechefwithredshoes.wordpress.com/) and "our growing edge" initiative (http://bunnyeatsdesign.com/our-growing-edge/) we decided to document our interesting experience cooking with our home brewed beer.
It is almost a year (in June 10th 2013) that we started home-brewing; although our blog is not that old, we've being growing and exploring new recipes that turn out to be really good, at least for our family and friends.
One of the most interesting edges of beer brewing is, the ability to increase the friends/family reunions, in the best sense it can be said so, as your friends and family continue to visit you in order to help with "beer-quality-control" at some point, we all get hungry.
The natural step would be, to open a bag of chips and share them but.. what if we cook something? what if we cook something with our home-brew in it?
This might sound simple for anyone with a cooking background but, for someone with less than a year of beer-brewing experience and no cooking training (but very passionate for food!!!), it can be become into a very interesting challenge.
The first question that came into our mind: what to cook?, naturally, something that would pair up nicely with beer and, of course, our options, as beer lovers were pizza or burgers; we are completely aware that, for a professional chef, the options would be endless but for us those were, not only the only ones but the best ones, so, after a short debate, we decided to grill some great beer burgers!!
Here is the recipe we followed:

Ingredients:
- 1kg lean ground beef
- 1 medium red onion
- 1 tsp smoked paprika
- 1 tsp ground cumin
- 1 1/2 tbsp Montreal Steak Seasoning
- Coarse salt and ground black pepper to taste
- Handful finely chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley
- 1 tbsp Worcestershire sause
- 1/2 bottle of Dos Amigos' Gambrinus Cacao Stout

Our stout has a medium body with awesome roasted coffee and chocolate flavors, (in our blog you can find, not only the highlights of the brewing but also a video review of it) we added home-roasted cacao nibs to the mash which can be nicely perceived in the aroma (I'll let you know when we brew more of it)
We mix all the ingredients the night before and let them rest. The next day, we light up the grill, formed the patties and grill them the best we could to a nice medium rare.
Beside having a tasty burger patty, we needed a really nice bun to hold it, we were lucky enough to have fresh, home baked pretzel buns, which were provided by one our friends.
This first attempt to cook with our beers was a great experience, we all enjoyed a huge burger with a delicious home-brew and we are looking forward to do this recipe again.
Hopefully, we'll share the experience again.

Thanks and happy brewing!!