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Kentucky Beer Cheese Soup

It’s Fall Y’all, which also means this is Soup Season in the Bluegrass and beyond. Serve with warm bread, crackers or a sandwich for that warm and cozy comfort food high.
Course Soup
Cuisine American
Servings 8

Ingredients
  

  • 4 Slices Bacon - diced
  • 3/4 Cup Onion - chopped
  • 1/2 Cup Celery Stalks - thinly sliced
  • 1/2 Cup Carrots - grated
  • 2 Cups White Potato - grated
  • 1 tsp. Salt
  • 2 tbsp. Plain Flour
  • 4 Cups Whole Milk
  • 8 oz. Package of Kentucky Beer Cheese in regular or hot

Instructions
 

  • In a large skillet or very heavy sauce pan, cook bacon until crisp. 
  • Remove bacon and reserve 3 tbsp. bacon drippings. 
  • To bacon drippings add vegetables and 2 tbsp. of water
  • Cook until vegetables are tender, stirring frequently.
  • Sprinkle flour over vegetables and stir well. 
  • Remove from heat.  
  • Add salt and 4 Cups milk
  • Add bacon back and simmer over very low heat for 45 minutes
  • Remove from heat and stir in Kentucky Beer Cheese
  • Makes 6-8 servings.
Keyword Beer cheese