This Slow Cooker Guinness Corned Beef and Cabbage has the classic corned beef flavor and made even better with beer!
It’s that time of year again! St. Patrick’s day is just weeks away and I have a wonderful recipe for you! As a blogger, my family gets to celebrate holidays early, so I can get recipes out to you before the holiday happens. This dinner turned out amazing!
I add Guinness beer and brown sugar to my usual corned beef recipe, this is the way I plan to cook corned beef from now on. The beer flavor is not strong after cooking all day, just a nice hint of beer flavor that blends well with the beef.
I decided to try adding the cabbage during the last 2 hours this time, it turned out perfect. In fact, I couldn’t stop eating just the cabbage. If you love cabbage try my cabbage, potatoes and kielbasa recipe.
Though this meal is great as is, leftovers are great in a Rueben sandwich. None of the meat will go to waste, trust me.
Slow Cooker Guinness Corned Beef and Cabbage
Equipment Needed:
Ingredients:
- 2 1/2 lb. flat cut corned beef brisket
- 1 seasoning packet from above roast
- 12 oz. Guinness Beer (I use bottled extra stout)
- 1/4 cup brown sugar
- 1 bay leaf
- 8 Yukon gold potatoes
- 4 carrots
- 2 garlic cloves
- 1/2 head cabbage, cut into slices
Instructions:
- Rinse the corned beef and pat dry. Add the corned beef to the slow cooker.
- Sprinkle over the seasoning packet that came with the roast. Sprinkle over the brown sugar. Add the potatoes, carrots, garlic and bay leaf on top of the roast. Pour over the beer.
- Add the lid to the slow cooker. The total cooking time is 8 hours on low. You can choose when to add your cabbage. I put my cabbage in at the 6 hour mark and cooked for the remaining 2 hours, that’s how I like it. Some like to add it at the beginning, and some at the last 30 minutes.
- Serve by removing the veggies and removing the corned beef on to a cutting board. Cut the corned beef into slices and serve with the veggies.
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Very, very tasty! Remember the cabbage cooks faster so next time I might even put it in in the last hour. Everything was delicious! Thanks
Recipe looks great. Why put garlic on top and not in beer? Also you just leave sugar on top?
The recipe looks really great, just not sure why not put seasoning in beer?
Thanks
Everything cooks together, it doesn’t matter how it’s added.
Question: What is the best sized slow cooker to use for this recipe with a 4.5 lb. flat cut brisket? Thanks for the help! 🙂
I would use a 6 quart slow cooker.
Just took out from cooker. Very tender.4.5 lb cooked 8.5 hrs
Tastes great.onlyused the spice packet and 1 cup brown sugar. I did add 1 cup of water to the 14 oz can Guinness.
Need to read how to cut it
I’m curious. Why don’t you put the meat in fat side up??
I think it tastes great fat side down. It looks better and the seasonings are more on the meat instead of the fat.
I’ve been using this recipe for 3 years now and love it! The corned beef is so tender and has just that perfect flavor. This year I’m using a bag of small yellow potatoes so we’ll see how that goes. Again, LOVE this recipe! Thank you for sharing it with us!