Cooking Brats

[KCProTech]

Watching the Chiefs/Packers game. Cooking up brats in beer boat with onions and home grown peppers. Cooking golden potatoes in foil with peppers and onions and garlic and seasoning Gonna be ready for kickoff of the Pats/Colts game. :D

[maeistero]

:D sounds good, too bad we lost!

great day for brats and saur in kck though

[dec]

I love polish sausages with sauerkraut, mustard, and sweet pickles.

For some reason I can't stand the taste of brats, something about their taste makes me gag.

[renaissanse man]

Sometimes, I do want to smack my brats, but I'd never kill and eat them. That's sick. :(;):p

[citywide service]

We cook Brats every once in a while and we always come up short on what to cook to go with them; can you guys give me a list of things (side dishes) that go good with Brats?

Thanks for the input.

CW.

[forged alloy]

Watching the Chiefs/Packers game. Cooking up brats in beer boat with onions and home grown peppers. Cooking golden potatoes in foil with peppers and onions and garlic and seasoning Gonna be ready for kickoff of the Pats/Colts game. :D

Whats a beer boat?

I love Brats, but have only grilled em before

[btcstudenthvacr]

We cook Brats every once in a while and we always come up short on what to cook to go with them; can you guys give me a list of things (side dishes) that go good with Brats?

Thanks for the input.

CW.

Well living in Wisconsin home of Johnsonville Brats I'll share a few sides...first a Leinie's(I perfer original light or Honeyweiss).
Second it wouldn't be summer in WI with out the traditional's at the picnic table coleslaw,(german)potato salad,(bushes)baked beans,steak fries or waffle fries.or chips go good as well. Hope that helps
Bret

[DuJane]

Absolutely a Leinie's! My pick is Red or Apple Spice though. :-)

I have a great recipe for beans that goes really well with brats. I need to find it. This thread makes me want to make brats this weekend.

[KCProTech]

A beer boat makes cooking brats on the grill easy as sin. Buy a foil baking tray or make one out of a double layer of heavy duty foil. Put your brats in the "boat" along with peppers and onions and beer. Guiness is really good because it reduces to a rich caramel like flavor, cant go wrong with PBR or Budweiser either. Grill brats for about 45 min or until beer is reduced down and onions and peppers are done. Place brats over direct coals to get some grill marks and more flavor on them. Serve brats with the peppers and onions heaped over it.
Its my version of the "sheyboygen sausage" that they serve at Royals Ball Park.:D

[nashobasales]

A beer boat makes cooking brats on the grill easy as sin. Buy a foil baking tray or make one out of a double layer of heavy duty foil. Put your brats in the "boat" along with peppers and onions and beer. Guiness is really good because it reduces to a rich caramel like flavor, cant go wrong with PBR or Budweiser either. Grill brats for about 45 min or until beer is reduced down and onions and peppers are done. Place brats over direct coals to get some grill marks and more flavor on them. Serve brats with the peppers and onions heaped over it.
Its my version of the "sheyboygen sausage" that they serve at Royals Ball Park.:D

Sounds great, I'm going to try that this weekend.;)

[citywide service]

Absolutely a Leinie's! My pick is Red or Apple Spice though. :-)

I have a great recipe for beans that goes really well with brats. I need to find it. This thread makes me want to make brats this weekend.

What is a Leinie's???? Gotta be an east coast thing - never heard of it here in the midwest.

Did you ever find the beans recipe?

Like the beer boat idea posted here as well but don't like peppers so will use onions instead - any other suggestions to go with them?


Thanks for your help with the sides to all who posted.


CW.

[DuJane]

What is a Leinie's???? Gotta be an east coast thing - never heard of it here in the midwest.

Short for Leinenkugel. It's a brand of beer brewed in Wisconsin.

[nashobasales]

A beer boat makes cooking brats on the grill easy as sin. Buy a foil baking tray or make one out of a double layer of heavy duty foil. Put your brats in the "boat" along with peppers and onions and beer. Guiness is really good because it reduces to a rich caramel like flavor, cant go wrong with PBR or Budweiser either. Grill brats for about 45 min or until beer is reduced down and onions and peppers are done. Place brats over direct coals to get some grill marks and more flavor on them. Serve brats with the peppers and onions heaped over it.
Its my version of the "sheyboygen sausage" that they serve at Royals Ball Park.:D

Made them yesterday for football. Best and juiciest brats I've ever made. Thanks for the tip, I took a picture with my phone and sent it to my buddy, he was pi$$ed he wasn't there to eat them. :D:p:D:p

[KCProTech]

Glad they turned out good for you. I tell you, ever since I discovered this way to cook brats, its really hard to cook them any way else. Every time they turn out perfect. The best part is you can watch football and not have a ruined meal because you forgot to go out and turn them. Grill On!!!!!!:cool:

[smokin68]

While it sounds delicious, I don't know if I could pour out a perfectly good Guiness into a pan for cooking. We just served up brats for 100+people this weekend, so funny how this topic came up. We just boiled them first, then grilled quickly for flavor. The beer boat sounds good though. Sauerkraut is a great side dish, and mustard is mandatory. We served baked beans, which aren't bad except for later on.....

[Hamma]

Do any of you eat cheddarwurst?

[x-wired]

Well living in Wisconsin home of Johnsonville Brats I'll share a few sides...first a Leinie's(I perfer original light or Honeyweiss).
Second it wouldn't be summer in WI with out the traditional's at the picnic table coleslaw,(german)potato salad,(bushes)baked beans,steak fries or waffle fries.or chips go good as well. Hope that helps
Bret

My wife is from fondu lac WI and I never had to cook brats until I met her.

[nashobasales]

Do any of you eat cheddarwurst?

Yup, why you ask?

[KCProTech]

By far the best brats, when done right, are the cheddar brats! Hy Vee makes a pineapple bratwurst thats pretty darn good too.

[MechAcc]

Hmm this sounds appetizing. Can't wait to try it on them Garlic & Butter or the Mushroom & Swiss Brats I got from Swiss Meat & Sausage- Hermann, MO. They're the best Brats I've ever had.

[nashobasales]

By far the best brats, when done right, are the cheddar brats! Hy Vee makes a pineapple bratwurst thats pretty darn good too.

I would have to politely disagree, they are very very good and tasty, but I don't think are the best brats I've ever had. I would have to say the beer boat brats were the best I have ever made.

[nwrscold]

You All Need To Try A Packer Bratt, It Is The Ultimate Seasoning Of The Meat And Has Fresh Green Peppers And Chedar Cheese In The Bratt. The Meat Cutter Around Here Makes These And They Are Awesome. REMEMBER A BRATT IS ALL ABOUT SESONIG AND THE QUALITY OF MEAT!

[smokin68]

You All Need To Try A Packer Bratt, It Is The Ultimate Seasoning Of The Meat And Has Fresh Green Peppers And Chedar Cheese In The Bratt. The Meat Cutter Around Here Makes These And They Are Awesome. REMEMBER A BRATT IS ALL ABOUT SESONIG AND THE QUALITY OF MEAT!


They're probably on sale and real cheap after last sunday......:o:D

[supertek65]

Watching the Chiefs/Packers game. Cooking up brats in beer boat with onions and home grown peppers. Cooking golden potatoes in foil with peppers and onions and garlic and seasoning Gonna be ready for kickoff of the Pats/Colts game. :D


MY 42 YEAR OLD CHIEFS PACKERS VIDEO IS GETTING DISTORTED, DO YOU HAVE A NEW ONE? LOL:D

EVER BEEN TO WERNERS IN MISSION ON JOHNSON DRIVE?
LOVE THEIR BRATS!

[TurdL]

Short for Leinenkugel. It's a brand of beer brewed in Wisconsin.

http://www.leinie.com/av.html