Beer-Braised Short Ribs of Beef

What trendy young restaurant chefs today have yet to learn, but what Southern home cooks have known for centuries, is that there’s one way and only one way to transform tough, cartilage-laden short ribs of beef (like lamb shanks) into a culinary wonder: braising them slowly in liquid for hours. No dry-heat cooking, no marinating and grilling, no quick method whatsoever will break down the meat fibers and soften up the fat as braising does. Cooking short ribs correctly is a long but easy pro