This dish is excellent, nutritious, and simple to prepare.
| Prep Time: | 20 mins |
| Cook Time: | 5 hrs |
| Total Time: | 5 hrs 20 mins |
| Servings: | 10 |
| Yield: | 10 servings |
Ingredients
- 2 (19.8 ounce) packages fresh bratwurst links
- ½ cup butter
- 3 (12 ounce) cans light beer
- 4 onions, chopped
- ½ teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 1 tablespoon garlic powder
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 2 tablespoons brown sugar
- 1 cup sauerkraut, drained (Optional)
- 10 (6 inch) bratwurst buns
Instructions
- In a slow cooker, combine the bratwurst links, butter, beer, onions, cayenne pepper, garlic powder, garlic and brown sugar. Cover and set to High. Cook for 4 hours, stirring once per hour. Add sauerkraut and continue cooking for another hour.
- Serve bratwurst on buns with onions and top with your favorite condiments.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 731 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 51 g |
| Cholesterol | 107 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 3 g |
| Protein | 23 g |
| Saturated Fat | 18 g |
| Sodium | 1524 mg |
| Sugars | 8 g |
| Fat | 46 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
I made exactly as described, Best brats ever!
i actually let it cook for longer than 4 hours and i used wine instead of beer and they taste amazing
Great!
Will definitely make this again. Didn’t have any sauerkraut so left it out. Also ran brats under the broiler for a couple minutes to brown. Served on French baguettes with stone ground mustard. Outrageously good!
Cooked by recipe and I did not like. I will use beef broth next time. The beer flavor was too much.
Served them on pretzel rolls they were great.
I am rating this for my 76 year old non-wisconsin Mother. I bought her a small crock pot so she could make single meals easier. I am trying recipes with her and writing them down…downsized to ‘her’ crock-pot. My dear mother loved these. This is her favorite recipe by far! Well a toss up between this and slow cooker enchilada casserole. She is doing great with her ‘mini crock’ . Thanks for the recipe!
I made no changes and it’s great!
All loved it but my son(brat boy)I think he likes them grilled period…lol For beer I used Redds Apple Ale…thumbs up highly recommend Did have a strong onion flavor… And slow cooked for 8 hours instead of on high for 5
This recipe is great, but I made some changes to the steps and the results were out of this world Sear the Brats on all sides on a hot skillet (I use my cast iron) so that each side is blackened/brown and set them aside to rest. Next add the 1/2 cup of butter and melt it down then add all of the onions (I use vidalias and cut them into strips) and reduce them down real nice so they are nice and caramelized. Then add in the three beers (I used bud light just for something neutral) and once the beer was in then I put in the dry ingredients but added a little salt and black pepper. brought it down to a simmer and reduced it to about 1/3. Next I put the brats in the slowcooker and dumped the onion/beer on top and set it on high for two hours. DO NOT STIR THE BRATS while you’ll want to mix it up it will result and uneven coating and the brats will have a less robust flavor. Finally take them out of the slowcooker, turn it off and then put the brats on the grill for about a minute on each side. Put the onions on top of the brats and enjoy!
Delicious and authentic Wisconsin Beer Brats!
These are a no brainer! Outstanding weather it be the summer time or football in the fall these brats are excellent!
Excellent marinade! I followed a suggestion and grilled the brats first then simmered them for an hour after. I just put two whole garlic cloves in the mix instead of the minced for a more subtle flavor. I used my vegetable slicer and made the onions into fine strings and also added sauerkraut to the mixture. I made sandwiches on French rolls & sliced pickles and added them along with Dijon mustard. It’s rare that a new meal comes out perfect the first time but this was great!
Easy for a crowd.
This recipe was good. I made 30 brats for a potluck I was having at work and the crowd loved them. I did put them on the grill for about 10 minutes and poked holes in them befor putting them in the crock pot. For the 30 brats I made I only used about a half a cup of butter, 4 beers and only 2 large onions but left all other ingredients the same. I cooked them all in one pot so I just arranged them to fit and poured the beer in until the brats were covered. Cooked them on high for about 3 1/2 hours and then turned on warm for self serve. Would make this again for a crowd and no grill.
I make this minus the beer, adding sauerkraut, in a skillet on the stove to put over even lowly hot dogs. Addictive as crack!
This turned out to be a surprising success at yesterday’s party! Instead of 3 cans of light beer, I used 2 bottles of Guinness and then 12 oz of beef broth. And I did not use sauerkraut. The brats were mushy, but it wasn’t gross mushy. Several people commented on how tasty the onions were. Score!
Wow, I am cooking this right now and all three of my children walked in and said “It smells like Germany!!” Thank you so much, this brings back wonderful memories and tastes FANTASTIC! I will be following anything else you post!!
Our go to when we are having a back yard party.
These are incredible. You definitely should brown them on the grill or a skillet (only for about 5-10 minutes) before throwing them in the bath. My Super Bowl party dug into mine after about six hours in the bath and everyone raved. There were even some gals who didn’t think they’d enjoy bratwurst who went back for seconds!
I made this w/Kielbasa! I did grill it first, according to some reviews, then into the pot it went. We didn’t slow cook it and it came out perfect. Used 1 yengling and 1# of smoked Kielbasa then everything went into the pot w/sauerkraut last. Add caraway seeds and hit w/mustard after it goes into bowls!!! YUMMY!!! Thanks for this recipe! We devoured it!