How did this magic happen? Well, we got a meat bundle at Hy-Vee awhile back, not long after we purloined my mother in-law's deep freeze and included in the meat bundle were about a dozen or so brats, the remnants of which were sitting in our freezer accumulating freezer burn ever so slowly. So, I wanted to use them up. We also had an onion or two hanging around the joint and I had a left over Anchor Christmas Ale- the 2013 Edition hanging around my fridge and that's when the light bulb went off.
I chopped up the onions, sliced up the brats, threw them in a pan and pour the Anchor Christmas ale in after them. What resulted was actually pretty delicious: the reduced down into a delicious, hearty and flavorful gravy, which, when combined with the brats and the onions was amazing. The only question that remained: what were we going to put it on? After some consultation with the Missus, we decided on some Naan bread from Trader Joe's that had also been lurking in our freezer for far too long- we added some ketchup and a squirt of mustard and a strange flatbread/taco/gyro was born.
The Missus observed that the only thing that it was missing was probably some sauerkraut- and I would tend to agree with that assessment, despite not liking kraut all that much. I also think a stronger, more authentically German mustard would have added the right kind of kick to it. Or you could fuse the other way and make it a curry sauce of some kind. (Maybe also add some vegetables other than onions? They worked out fine, but unless you had some brat along for the ride, a mouthful of them, even with the delicious beer-gravy, the onion flavor was a little intense.)
Either way, for a total, 'make it up as you go along' experience, this turned out really, really well. I would happily do it again.
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