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:
- 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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Perfect recipe and so delicious! Won’t change a thing and will keep as my go to! Thank you!
I like to pull the corned beef out and put it under the broiler for a few minutes before serving. We like a mustard/brown sugar glaze on the top to give it a bit of a crust. That’s how my grandma always made it.
Great idea for the crust, thanks.
Veggies were overcooked and mushy. Consider adding last hour
Fantastic recipe! Made it tonight and the family loved it! I used a bag of petite red and white potatoes instead of regular and added them after 4 hours. Came out perfect. Will be making this again for sure!
It was delicious! I cook it the same way in the oven. But, this time I used the slow cooker. The cabbage was perfect. Thank you.
I made this today did everything correct.. cooked it on low for eight hours and the corn beef was so tough it was not tender at all.. it sucked
I just made it myself! Very tender. Maybe your slow cooker isn’t cooking correctly?
mine was tough too. I used an instapot slow cooker setting. 8 jr low.
The instant pot slow cooking setting isn’t correct. It’s really too low.
I made it as well. Soooo good. I rested the meat for 15 minutes before cutting and sliced thin across grain. Cabbage went in for last 2 hours and was delicious. Carrots and potatoes were so-so, next time I’ll just use carrots for flavor (along with onions) and cook potatoes separately. What a treat!
The most delicious corned beef I ever made! I used the extra stout Guinness and it was so flavorful!!
I’ve been making this recipe on St. Patrick’s Day for the last 4 years. My family absolutely loves it!! Thank you for all your wonderful recipes!!
I have the point cut, will this still work? Also, do you put the potatoes and carrots in at the beginning?
Yes to both.
Point cut will work great, my experience is that if you put the veggies in first they come out as mush. I add them 5hrs in(with 3 hours to go) and they come out perfect.
Hello do I use light brown sugar or regular brown sugar?
Light brown sugar is regular. You can use light or dark.
Hi! Do you think I can use sugar in the raw instead of legit brown sugar? Thank you so much!
Yes, sugar in the raw will work great.
Can i use red potatoes ?
Yes!
Thank you!! I’m making it now. Also- Do you think it would be tender at 6 hours instead of 8? Or, I also thought about doing 4 hours on low and 2 hours in high? I put it in at 3:45 pm and want some tonight lol
I made this today with the extra stout and red potatoes. Best I’ve ever had. SO GOOD!
My corn beef is 3.8 pounds. How long do I need to cook it or should I raise the temperature to cook at eight hours
Corned beef in the slow cooker is very forgiving. You’ll just need to cook the dish until the vegetables are to your liking, the corned beef will be fine at any length of time. You may need to go a little longer to get your vegetables tender since your pot is fuller. I would cook for 9 hours on low.
Whaat if your corned beef does not come with a seasoning package?
Please send seasoning ingredients
You just need pickling spices so you can google a recipe or most grocery stores have a pre-made in the spice section.
Loved the recipe, but very salty! Was the corned beef supposed to be rinsed off before putting in slow cooker?
You definitely can rinse it before adding to cut down on the saltiness.
I made this for St. Patrick’s Day and it was absolutely fabulous. Best corned beef I have ever had. The only thing that I did find was that the cabbage definitely needed salt. I put the cabbage in 2 hours before it was done and I think next time I will sprinkle salt and pepper on top.