Slow Cooker Beer and Garlic Brats
67 Comments Oct 04, 2017
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Slow Cooker Beer and Garlic Brats are great for game day or for a fall dinner.
Hi again!
I have another brat recipe on my blog, it doesn’t have near as much garlic and doesn’t have butter in it either. I’ve been often redoing recipes after I try them again, there is always room for improvement I think.
I also decided to try the raw version of the brats. As I was on Johsnonville’s website today, I saw they make brat patties! What the what!?
Yes, I used 10 garlic cloves for this recipe. It may seem like a lot, but keeping them whole helps not overpower the recipe. Garlic goes SO well with beer and butter.
Such an easy peasy recipe! Serve with chips and dinner is served. Have a great week.
Slow Cooker Beer and Garlic Brats
How to Video
Ingredients
- 38 oz. brats, (two 19 oz. packages) I find these in the meat section, raw
- 1 large white onion, sliced and divided
- 10 garlic cloves, peeled
- 1/4 tsp. black pepper
- 1/4 cup butter
- 12 oz. bottle beer, (I used Coors banquet)
Instructions
- Add half of the onion in the slow cooker, add the brats in 2 layers.
- Add the rest of the onions, garlic, pepper and place the butter on top.
- Pour the beer into the slow cooker.
- Cover and cook on low for 6 hours without opening the lid during the cooking time.
- Serve the brats, garlic and onions on buns topped with desired toppings.
Nutrition
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sounds a lot like one my mother did in the oven where would brown them in a skillet with butter and cover with a can of sauerkraut and sliced onion and bake for an hour or so until the kraut was lightly browned about an hour or so at about 325-350 (kraut juice and all) the slow cook would take the bite out of the kraut and leave tender and juicy to be served with boiled potato or on a good sturdy hardroll with whatever topping desired onion mustard ketchup or whatever
I made this..Its a Keeper.Next time , I’m gonna brown up first and use a dark beer..
Thank you…Mmmmm
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Sorry, I take that back. The second photo clearly shows 4T butter. Great recipe!
It appears from the photos that 1/4 stick of butter (2T) was used rather than 1/4 cup (4T.) Which is correct? Thanks.
Making a half-order of this right now.
Would 3 hours on slow work as well?
I meant 3 hours on high.
I’m trying now and will reply to this tomorrow. We have to speed it up because I forgot to turn on the crockpot.
What was the verdict on cooking this in high??
I’m curious as well!
I think 3 hours on high would do fine!
Hi there! Gonna make these today – super excited! How would you store them after cooking? Would you keep some of the juice and put them in a tupperware? No juice? Would freezing them get weird?
I don’t think I added much juice when I stored them in the fridge. I don’t know how they would freeze. I apologize.
Give em a try with kraut it is amazing…the way it’s intended : ) , though we don’t do the beer and the kraut … generally either or up here in the far north woods of Michigan’s upper peninsula. Large German & Finnish heritage here , sausage is one of the food groups lol.
Sounds good, I will try.
I made this recipe yesterday…it was a hit with the family! So delicious and perfect for the season!
Do you think you could add sauerkraut to the recipe?
It may be good! I searched google and found quite a few recipes with brats and sauerkraut cooked together. I think it would be fine.