Beer onion gravy is a staple sauce complementary to a number of dishes. Bangers and mash, Yorkshire puddings, grilled chicken, pork chops or portabello mushrooms, even steamed rice welcome its sweet and savory goodness.

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About This Onion Gravy with Dark Ale
Suitable Beer Style for Beer Onion Gravy
How to Make Onion Gravy
Tips on Making Beer Onion Gravy
Other Recipes You Might Enjoy
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About This Onion Gravy with Dark Ale

Anyone who is even remotely interested in cooking with beer knows of the strong affinity onions and beer have for each other. This gravy is also a great way to include beer in your breakfast - just drizzle it over hot biscuits or breakfast sausages.

The longer you cook down the onions, the better, but that does not mean that the process must take hours. In fact, our recipe barely takes thirty minutes.

With support from the beer, enough flavors develop to create a delicious, sweet and savory sauce that can take many dishes from plain to exquisite.

Suitable Beer Style for Beer Onion Gravy

The onions' caramelization is enhanced by the caramel notes often present in beer styles such as these below. Or the other way around, the point being that cooking onions with beer works and it does so to a very desirable effect.

porter (especially English porters)
stout (you may want to increase the brown sugar, some stouts are too bitter)
brown ale
amber ale
English mild
Dunkel
Schwarzbier
German amber lagers

Unless you deliberately want to introduce bitterness to your beer onion gravy, choose a brew with low IBUs and a confident malty character and look for it among the styles listed above. We often make beer onion gravy with porters, which is the case with the batch in the pictures and video of this post.

How to Make Onion Gravy

The workflow is completely stress free and all you need is a good skillet and your stove top. Watch our instructional video for a step by step demonstration.

Tips on Making Beer Onion Gravy

We prefer to leave the tender, cooked down sliced onions untouched. However, if your preference is for a smooth consistency, by all means take out your handheld blender and puree the onions and herbs once the gravy has finished cooking. If pureeing in a regular blender be careful - work in batches to avoid the steam from the hot gravy 'exploding'.

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Recipe

Onion Gravy with Porter Ale

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Prep Time: 5

Cook Time: 25

Total Time: 30

Servings: ½ cup

Calories: 613kcal

Author: Milena Perrine

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Ingredients

2 medium onions thinly sliced
fresh sage 5-6 leaves, finely chopped
fresh thyme leaves of a few sprigs
2 tablespoon butter
2 tablespoon brown sugar
2 tablespoon flour
12 oz dark malty beer (porter, stout, brown ale, Dunkel lager, amber lagers)
1 cup beef stock

Instructions

In a sauce pan over medium heat melt the butter.
Add the thinly sliced onions, brown sugar, salt and pepper, sage and thyme and mix well.
Cook until the onions are translucent and are beginning to caramelize.
Add the flour and stir to incorporate, about one minute.
Add the beer, stir and let reduce for a couple of minutes.
Add the beef stock, stir and let reduce.
In about 7-10 minutes the gravy will have thickened enough. Remove from the heat and transfer to a suitable container.

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