We grow our own beef, as we live on a farm in kansas. We had our beef processor make some beef brats out of some of our meat. Got a package of brats right now simmering in dark german beer, and will simmer an hour or so, then grill it to crisp it up on the outside. On top of that we make a sourkraut topping using sourkraut, vinegar, anise seeds and sugar. The saurkraut topping gets simmered about an hour or hour and a half in the vinegar, anise seed and sugar until the sourkraut is a little carmeled from the liquids evaporating. Its just fantastic outdoor summer eating, and of course ya gotta wash it down with a warsteiner german beer.
