With the charcoal blazing, beer from one of the oldest breweries in Michigan on ice and the grill freshly cleaned, the time for a hump day barbecue is now. After all, we’ve reached the halfway point of the week and it’s time to celebrate that there is less than 48 hours ‘til the sweet sanctity of the weekend. So look no further than our take on an old school beer sausage recipe.

Being that it’s Wednesday, the Frankenmuth Brewery blog test kitchen knows that you’ll be coming home from work and won’t want to deal with too much hassle. Our beer sausage recipe involves barely any prep (most of it involves soaking sausage in Michigan beer), leaving tons of time to enjoy a beautiful summer night. For the recipe we suggest using Frankenmuth Brewery’s Munich Style Dunkel Lager as this beer pairs delightfully well with Italian sausage and is perfect for drinking during the meal.

Michigan Beer Grilled Sausages With Peppers

-1 Frankenmuth Brewery Munich Style Dunkel Lager
-3 pounds uncooked Italian sausages
-1 onion, sliced
-2 green pepper, sliced
-2 red peppers, sliced
-4 cloves of garlic, chopped

1. Poke each sausage with a fork multiple times and allow beer to marinate in a mixture of chopped garlic and beer inside of a plastic bag in the fridge for over an hour.
2. Add sausage and onions to a sauté pan and cover with the beer marinade from the bag. Turn stovetop on to medium heat and allow the liquid to simmer and poach sausages for about 5 minutes.
3. Remove the sausages from the pan and prepare to take out to the grill. After deglazing the pan (or the less technical term of “scrapping up any blackened stuff off the bottom”), add the sliced peppers to the marinade mixture remaining in the pan and cook until tender.
4. Meanwhile, back at the grill, brush the sausages with a bit of oil and place in a direct position near the heat source. Allow to brown on each side, or for about five minutes, and let rest for a minute or two before serving.
5. Serve the peppers, onions and sausages with some rice, salad or coleslaw and you have a new, easy and tasty take on a classic beer sausage recipe.

No matter what beer you end up using, remember that nothing will pair as well with the Italian sausage in this recipe as a Michigan beer. Frankenmuth Brewery is proud of the “Great Lakes State” quickly becoming even more known as the “Great Beer State” and we hope that when you use our Michigan beer in this beer sausage recipe you’ll be proud of our state too. Happy grilling!

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