Crockpot Corned Beef and Guinness
 
 
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Recipe type: Beef
Ingredients
  • 2.5 pound corned beef
  • 12 ounces Guinness Stout beer
  • ½ cup brown sugar
  • 3 garlic cloves, finely chopped
  • One bay leaf
  • One onion, quartered
  • Two carrots, chopped
  • Horseradish dijon mustard when served
Instructions
  1. Rinse corned beef off well (I read this helps with saltiness, which I don’t care for, so I figured I’d give it a try). Pat dry.
  2. I trimmed off some of the fat. Since I’ve never made it before I didn’t want to trim off too much – since I’m guessing it’s going to help tenderize it a little, but it was fattier than I expected.
  3. Rub the beef with the seasoning packet that comes with the meat.
  4. Rub ½ cup brown sugar around meat – more or less sugar depending on what’s needed to cover the meat with a nice coating.
  5. Place in crockpot and pour one 12 ounce Guinness Stout beer around the meat. Add water until it reaches top of meat. Or you can add two beers, but I didn’t want it to be too bitter – and Guinness isn’t cheap.
  6. Throw in your garlic and chopped onion. I added a couple carrots for extra flavor.
  7. Cook on low, for a LONG time – like you know, slow cooker style.
  8. Bump your crockpot heat up to high and throw in potatoes and carrots about 90 minutes before you plan to serve. I quartered my potatoes so they would cook quickly.
  9. We ended up eating it with horseradish dijon mustard – yum!
Recipe by A Happy Hive at https://ahappyhive.com/crockpot-corned-beef-guinness/