16 Cooking With Beer Recipes

Beer-Braised Chicken with Root Vegetables

Beer Braised Chicken1/16

Chicken is coaxed to tenderness in beer in this braised chicken with root vegetables. Simple to make, complex in taste, prepare for kudos.

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.

Beef and Guinness Pie3/16

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.

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.

Beer bread just got fancy. Well, sorta. It’s still quick and easy and awesomely difficult to stop noshing. This one just seems a little more lovely than most. And we betcha already have everything you need to make it.