Serve this beer-battered fish over a bed of salt and vinegar chips with tartar sauce and lemon. Virtually every beer-battered fish recipe looks crispy coming out of the fryer, and some even stay crispy for a few minutes, but then the inevitable sogginess sets in. With this simple formula and a few easy tricks, your last bite will be as crisp as your first. The keys are keeping the batter really cold and patting the fish completely dry.