Jalapeno Popper Cheesy Pretzel Bombs

Preheat oven to 450°.  Pour beer into the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a dough hook (see cooks note if you do not have a stand mixer), sprinkle yeast over top, addsugar and stir.  Allow yeast to bloom for 5-10 minutes.  Once it is nice and foamy, it is ready. *It should look like the 'head' of a beerpoured too quickly and smell yeasty. Meanwhile in a medium mixing bowl combine cheeses, bacon and jalapeños.  Mixtogether.  You may need to use a wood spoon to get it well mixed.  In a small bowl beat egg, set aside.  Sprinkle clean counter top with ¼cup flour.  Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or spray withcooking spray.  Set aside. Add flour and salt to standmixer.  Knead for 3- 5 minutes until the dough comes together in oneball.  Add more flour a tablespoon at a time as needed, if bread is toosticky to come together.  Dough should be tacky when you pull it out ofthe mixer, not sticky. Place dough on floured countertop and knead in flour until it is no longer tacky, just a minute ortwo.  Form dough into a ball.  We are going to cut this ball into 36(somewhat) even pieces.  First quarter the ball of dough. *I used abench scraper, but a butter knife would work too.  Roll each quarterinto a fat log.  Cut that into 3 pieces.  Roll each piece into a log and cut into 3 pieces.  When you are done you will have 36 pieces. Fill a medium (4 cup) bowl with 2 cups of hot water and add baking soda. Place baking sheet, baking soda water and cheese mixture on the counterthat you are working on.  Roll each dough piece (oneat a time) into a ball and then flatten it into a circle.  Add 1tablespoon of cheese mixture in the center *I used a tablespoonscooper.  Carefully pull each side over the cheese to create a ‘cheesepackage’, pinching the edges closed.  Roll the dough into a ball.  Becareful to make sure you can not see the cheese through the dough.  Tapfingers in flour, pinch any tears and roll again.  Set aside and repeatuntil you have 3 stuffed dough balls.  Transfer 3 stuffed dough balls to hot water mixture and allow to set while you prepare the next 3. Prepare the next 3 dough balls.  Remove dough balls from water with aslotted spoon and place on prepared baking sheet.  Place 3 newlyprepared balls into the water and prepare 3 more.  Repeat until alldough balls are on the cookie sheet. Arrange all pretzel balls on parchment so they are not touching.  Brush egg wash onto each one and sprinkle with course salt. Bake for 8-10 minutes until the tops are browned. The ooey gooey cheese may escape some of your pretzel bombs.  That is abeautiful thing!  Scoop all that cheesy goodness up onto the plate andserve.  Your guests will go crazy over them.