Ultimate Beer Brats

Directions

1. 1
   Add the sliced onions, salt, and butter to a pan over medium-low heat.
2. 2
   Cook until translucent and then starting to brown all over the edges, stirring occasionally.
3. 3
   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.
4. 4
   Cover with a lid and simmer on low for 10 minutes.
5. 5
   Remove the brats from the liquid.
6. 6
   Turn the heat to high and begin to reduce the beer/onion mixture until most liquid evaporates.
7. 7
   In the meantime, toast the buns and cook the brats on the grill just to finish them and give them gorgeous grill-color.
8. 8
   Serve the brats on the toasted buns with the cooked beer-onions, and add mustard or ketchup as desired.
9. 9
   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.
10. 10
    To finish, just heat the beer and brats up in a pot to the simmer point and finish on the grill per the directions.