On Mon, 25 Jul 2011 07:32:17 -0500, George Leppla
> wrote:

> On 7/24/2011 9:33 PM, sf wrote:
> > I've never had hot dogs that way either, but I thought the beer was
> > just a way to keep them warm*after* they'd been grilled - not the
> > vehicle to cook them (technically - not to cook, but to heat them up).
>
>
> Back in the 70's, there was a restaurant chain called Lums that cooked
> their hot dogs in beer. I lived in Wisconsin at the time and cooking
> sausages in beer was pretty common.
>
> We would coarsely cut up a couple of onions and put in a pot... add the
> bratwurst (or hot dogs) and a can of beer. Pabst Blue Ribbon was cheap.
>
> Heat slowly until the brats were almost done. Remove the brats and
> finish them on a grill. Remove the onions and finish them in a hot
> frying pan with a little butter.
>
Like I said previously, I did see "recipes" for that when I was
looking for the beer bath holding tank idea... but what's the point of
doing it at a bbq if brats are the main event? Seems silly to me. I
was raised in Michigan, but brats were not an integral part of the
cuisine there and they certainly are not here in California so I have
no history of brats & beer in any form.

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