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:
- Slow Cooker- 6 quart or larger
Ingredients:
- 2.5 lb. flat cut corned beef brisket
- 1 seasoning packet from above roast
- 12 oz. Guinness Beer (I use bottled extra stout)
- ¼ cup brown sugar
- 1 bay leaf
- 8 Yukon gold potatoes
- 4 carrots
- 2 garlic cloves
- ½ head cabbage, cut into slices
Instructions:
- 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.
Does anyone add onion?
I do for extra flavor.
It reading these comments my question is “Do any of these people actually READ the recipe?” i.e High or low, when to add the beer, flavor packet. It states it right in the recipe. READ PEOPLE.
Do you use red or grey corned beef? How many tablespoons or flavor packet?
It’s the red kind. And I used the entire flavor packet, it’s probably about 2 teaspoons.
Does it end up with a beer taste?
What’s the coming time on high?
I would do 4 hours on high
Is a pie cut brisket ok?
I’ve never seen that cut, is it cubed?
Is the slow cooker on high or low?
Low
Do you add any water at all
no
I am making it right now,I’m using red potatoes . do you think it will be the same? I’ve had it in the crock pot for for 3 hrs so far and the potatoes are still hard!!
Yes, they will be fine. Keep the lid on for best results.
Can’t find the Guinness beer. What other kind can I use?
Any beer would be fine. As long as it’s not a flavored beer (like pumpkin)
I used Dos Equis (dos ekkies) XX a Mexican Beer since I couldn’t find Guinness either.
Can I use Bud Light?
That would work fine. That’s the beer I use in my other recipes and turns out great.
Thanks for the video. Very helpful
Can you peel the potatoes or will they be to soft?
I think they may get too soft.
is the cooking time the same for a 4-5# corned beef brisket?
Should be the same.
That looks amazing! I just happen to have guinness, corned beef, AND a bag of yukon golds! I know what we’re having this weekend!
Is the corned beef premade that your buying or is it just a brisket?
It’s labeled corned beef, so yes, premade.
USE WATER!!! Thats what most use!
You can use water, but beer adds flavor. 🙂
Those who don’t buy alcohol—maybe sparkling cider and leave out the brown sugar?
That is my ?,what to use instead of beer?? That’s a heck of a lot of sodium.
I use beef broth and it always comes out good.
The alcohol cooks off over 8 hours. No worries.
There are also alcohol free beers on the market.
Here in Australia, we don’t get the seasoning pkt with the corned beef. What is a good substitute.
I’ve been looking online and haven’t found many recipes that are similar. This recipe I found is large, so I would just do a bit of each item. Mustard seeds seem to be the main ingredient in the packets I’ve seen. https://www.spice-mixes.com/corned-beef-spices.html
I add pickling spice as well.
A corned beef seasoning packet contains a mixture of whole pickling spices such as allspice, coriander, mustard seed, pepper, cinnamon, bay leaf, cloves, ginger, dill seed and fennel seed. For an extra bit of taste, I like to add some minced garlic, and chopped onion.
what size meat for 4 quart slow cooker . what time for high setting
What is the name of the seasoning packet to use? Thanks.
It’s a standard packet that comes in with the corned beef.
Picking spice
Assuming the beer goes in at the beginning?
Yes, thank you.