16 Cooking With Beer Recipes

A red Dutch oven filled with beer-braised chicken with root vegetables on a wooden surface.

Beer Braised Chicken1/16

Chicken is coaxed to incredible taste and tenderness in this stew of sorts made healthful with root vegetables. Simple to make. Complex in taste. Unforgettable all around.

Two cowboy steaks in a cast-iron skillet with a Guinness sauce.

Cowboy Steaks with Guinness Sauce2/16

If you thought steak could get no better than a gorgeous bone in rib eye seared to perfection, you need to try this Guinness pan sauce.

A copper pot filled with beef and Guinness pie, topped with puff pastry on a towel on a cooking rack with a bottle behind it.

Beef Pot Pie With Guinness3/16

Essentially Irish stew with some lovely store-bought puff pastry plopped on top. Easy peasy. It may even make us think corned beef on March 17th.

Three slow cooker French dip sandwiches on a cutting board

Slow Cooker French Dip4/16

Slow cooker roast beef au jus. Perhaps the first slow cooker recipe yet that'll keep everyone at the table uber satisfied—including the person making and cleaning up after the meal.

White plate with steamed mussels in beer, topped with parsley, nearby lemon wedges and a bottle of beer

Steamed Mussels in Beer5/16

This simple summer crowd-pleaser has "easy entertaining" scrawled all over it. Just don't forget the bottle opener.

Beer-Battered Chicken Sandwich6/16

This sandwich is chicken's answer to the pulled pork sandwich thanks to its ethereally crisp, airy beer batter and sassy slaw.

Two beer can chickens sitting on cans of beer in aluminum tray, a tray of smolder wood chips nearby

Beer Can Chicken7/16

A whole hen plunked unceremoniously on a can and cooked on the grill or in the oven. A tailgating classic that's simple and perfect—even when you're not tailgating.

A stack of grilled beer braised bratwurst covered in sauerkraut.

Grilled Beer Braised Bratwurst8/16

We can almost see the smoke from these brats on the grill shape-shifting into a come-hither motion like in those old-time cartoons.

A beer braised lamb shank in a red Dutch oven, and another shank on a surface next to tortillas, sliced avocado, and an open beer.

Beer Braised Lamb Shank9/16

Because you really can't go wrong tossing meat in a pot with beer.

Peruvian Chicken10/16

Tastes just like the terrific pollo a la brasa with the insane green sauce at the local Peruvian joint—minus the long wait in line.

Asparagus Tempura11/16

Easy and shatteringly crisp and light and perfect. That's what folks are saying about this delicate beer-battered asparagus tempura.

Wheat Beer Roasted Chicken12/16

This is one besotted bird. As in blotto. Blitzed. Buzzed. Boozy. Not that we're complaining. Nope. Not at all.

An overflowing bowl of beer nuts on a wooden board with a glass of beer on a napkin beside it.

Beer Nuts13/16

Slightly sweet, subtly complex, and insanely easy homemade beer nuts. Unlike anything you've ever experienced. Beer sipped on the side not optional.

Guinness and Ice Cream14/16

A marvie blend of bitter stout and sweet ice cream, this inspired rendition of an old-fashioned float just may take you by surprise.

Chocolate Guinness Cake15/16

The bitter, coffee-like flavor of stout melds spectacularly with dark chocolate in this not-too-sweet, not-too-earthy Irish classic.