Ultimate Beer Brats

Add the sliced onions, salt, and butter to a pan over medium-low heat. Cook until translucent and then starting to brown all over the edges, stirring occasionally.

Add the beer to deglaze and the brats, giving it all a quick stir and doing your best to submerge the brats beneath the liquid. Cover with a lid and simmer on low for 10 minutes.

Remove the brats from the liquid. Turn the heat to high and begin to reduce the beer/onion mixture until most liquid evaporates.

In the meantime, toast the buns and cook the brats on the grill just to finish them and give them gorgeous grill-color.

Serve the brats on the toasted buns with the cooked beer-onions, and add mustard or ketchup as desired.

To cook ahead: Once the brats have simmered in the beer, the entire mixture can be cooled and stored in the fridge up to 5 days. To finish, just heat the beer and brats up in a pot to the simmer point and finish on the grill per the directions.