Root Beer Baked Beans
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Updated Jun 27, 2025
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Slow Cooker Root Beer Baked beans are flavored with root beer and also a touch of molasses. Great for barbecues and potlucks. Trust me when I say that these beans won’t last long so be ready with a backup batch.
Recipe Highlights
- They’re easy to throw together in the slow cooker and always a hit at cookouts, potlucks, or holiday gatherings.
- Adding soda to crockpot recipes add not only sweetness but a hint of unique flavor.
- If you are looking for a classic baked bean recipe, try my slow cooker baked beans.
Ingredients for Root Beer Baked Beans
- Pork and Beans: You’ll 3 cans for this recipe.
- White Onion: A small white onion, diced, adds great flavor and slight crunch.
- Bacon: Cooked, drained of grease, and sliced into bite-size pieces.
- Root Beer: A cup will add a nice tangy flavor. You can use diet root beer if needed. We also use root beer in our root beer pulled pork recipe!
- Seasonings: Yellow mustard, molasses, and barbecue sauce.
- (Full recipe is in the recipe card below the images)
How to Make Root Beer Baked Beans
- Add your beans, seasonings, and a splash of root beer to the slow cooker.
- Stir in a mix of sweet, smoky, and tangy ingredients to build flavor.
- Let it simmer low and slow until thick, rich, and ready to serve.
Cook’s Notes & Variations
Although this recipe calls for pork and beans, you can make this recipe with any flavor of canned baked beans.
Add ground beef to make this a complete meal!
Other sodas can be used instead of root beer, such as coca cola, Pepsi, or dr. pepper (see my dr. pepper baked beans recipe)!
Diet soda can be used, but only if you are used to the taste; it will have an off taste, just as the diet soda has.
You can double the recipe in a 6 quart slow cooker.
How to Serve
- These beans are delicious as is; however, you can serve them with a variety of toppings from diced onion and jalapeno to sour cream, chives, and crumbled bacon – Don’t forget a side of cornbread.
- Serve these beans with slow cooker hot dogs, hamburgers, barbecue chicken, or any meat of your choice. We often serve these along with our slow cooker chicken thighs or root beer chicken.
Featured Comment
Try making them with ginger beer instead of root beer. Really good!
– Karen
Slow Cooker Root Beer Baked Beans
How to Video
Ingredients
- 84 oz. pork and beans , (three 28-oz. cans)
- 1 small white onion, diced
- 2 Tbsp. mustard
- 2 Tbsp. molasses
- 1 cup root beer
- 1/2 cup barbecue sauce
- 8 slices bacon, sliced, cooked and drained
Instructions
- Add everything except the bacon to the slow cooker, stir. Sprinkle over the bacon on top of the beans.
- Cover and cook on LOW for 5 hours without opening the lid during the cooking time.
- Stir, serve and enjoy!
Nutrition
Nutrition info is auto-generated. This information is an estimate; if you are on a special diet, please use your own calculations.
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Try making them with ginger beer instead of root beer. Really good!