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Beer is food is a popular war cry among craft brew enthusiasts, and a local baked goods upstart is looking to expand on that. Founded earlier this year by self-proclaimed “Beer Girl” Misty Birchall, PubCakes is looking to simultaneously satisfy San Diego’s sweet-tooth and thirst for superior suds, with a line of cupcakesusing beer as the primary flavoring agent.

Birchall is a San Diego native who served six years abroad in the U.S. Navy before returning to discover the brewers in her hometown “make some damn good beer.” She funneled her awe over craft beer’s broad spectrum of flavor complexities straight into the stainless steel bowl of her KitchenAid mixer.

The result is a variety of artisanal cupcakes that includes:

-- Stoned Portzilla, a cake made with Stone Smoked Porter and topped with coffee-infused chocolate ganache and caramelized coconut flakes;

-- Top Ten Cake made with Karl Strauss’s hoppy Top Ten IPA, cherries, ancho chilies and cayenne-spiked caramel;

--Beer For Breakfast, which is fortified with AleSmith’s high alcohol toasty caramel Wee Heavy Scottish Ale, adorned with maple cream cheese frosting and garnished with crispy flecks of bacon

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