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Slow Cooker Beer Pulled Pork

Published: December 1, 2016 | Last updated: May 10, 2018 12 Comments

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This Slow Cooker Beer Pulled Pork is easy to prepare, feeds a crowd, tastes delicious and is a little bit lighter than traditional recipes. Perfect for winter months and entertaining or for when you’d like to feed a crowd in the summer! Great for Father’s Day!

This Slow Cooker Beer Pulled Pork is easy to prepare, feeds a crowd, tastes delicious and is a little bit lighter than traditional recipes. Perfect for winter months and entertaining | Imagelicious

Last year my best friend hosted a little get together around holidays. She had a wonderful and delicious spread waiting for us on the dining table: cheeses, smoked salmon rillette, veggies, dips, and for the main event a big bowl of sweet and smokey and savoury pulled pork that she made in her slow cooker. She told me that it was the famous Dr Pepper pulled pork from Pinterest.

A few weeks later I bought a package of pork loins at Costco and knew that it was my time to make pulled pork. I also knew that I had to use a different recipe. It’s one thing to have that at a friend’s house but my husband wouldn’t like anything made with pop at home. He also isn’t a fan of BBQ sauce (I know, crazy!) and the amount of sauce would need to be adjusted. Enter this Slow Cooker Beer Pulled Pork. I have to say I am not sure if beer is much better than Dr. Pepper, but it feels better in my mind. I don’t go too heavy on spices and add a little bit of BBQ sauce right in the beginning of cooking along with beer. Once it’s cooked, I add more BBQ sauce onto my own portion and my husband adds cayenne pepper and garlic salt onto his. This is what I love about this particular recipe – the end result is the pulled pork that tastes light and clean and is perfect to use for other meals.

And with that I am announcing a new series of Pulled Pork Posts on my site!! There will be Pulled Pork Pies and Pulled Pork Pizza and Pulled Pork Waffles! Yes, that’s right, I took Pulled Pork and stuffed it inside crispy waffles and topped them with an oozing poached egg. I spent weeks coming up and testing various ways of using Pulled Pork in anything other than a standard (yet delicious) sandwich. And if you are looking for a delicious Pulled Pork Sandwich, then may I suggest my Cottage Cheese and Jalapeño Rolls from a few weeks ago? They are the ones I used in the photos. These rolls are sturdy enough, yet fluffy. They also have this subtle jalapeño kick that goes so well with the Slow Cooker Beer Pulled Pork.

Did I also mention how easy this recipe is? The only difficult part is chopping an onion and I have to be really honest – you don’t necessary need an onion, you can totally omit it, although it’s better with the onion! So, even though it takes 9 hours to make, I am filing this under Mom recipe since it takes under 5 minutes to throw it together. And you also get to finish that bottle of beer after using 250ml in the recipe and I love this excuse to drink beer in the morning!!

This Slow Cooker Beer Pulled Pork is easy to prepare, feeds a crowd, tastes delicious and is a little bit lighter than traditional recipes. Perfect for winter months and entertaining | Imagelicious

This Slow Cooker Beer Pulled Pork is easy to prepare, feeds a crowd, tastes delicious and is a little bit lighter than traditional recipes. Perfect for winter months and entertaining | Imagelicious
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Slow Cooker Beer Pulled Pork

This Slow Cooker Beer Pulled Pork is easy to prepare, feeds a crowd, tastes delicious and is a little bit lighter than traditional recipes. Perfect for winter months and entertaining | Imagelicious
Course Main Course
Prep Time 5 minutes minutes
Cook Time 8 hours hours
Total Time 8 hours hours 5 minutes minutes
Servings 10
Author Julia

Ingredients

  • 1 large onion (diced)
  • 3 pork tenderloins (~3-4 pounds)
  • 1 tablespoon spicy smoked paprika
  • 1 tablespoon mustard powder
  • 1 tablespoon dry parsley
  • 2 teaspoon garlic salt (or more to taste, I use very little salt usually)
  • 1 cup beer
  • 1/4 cup BBQ sauce

Instructions

  • Add all the ingredients to slow cooker.
  • Cook on low for about 8 hours.
  • After 8 hours use two forks to pull pork apart and cook for another 30-60 minutes.
  • Serve with more bbq sauce and spices to taste.

Notes

After the initial 8 hours of cooking it'll look that there's a lot of liquid, but once the pork is pulled, the liquid will coat all of the little pieces and will become sauce. If there's not enough liquid after pork is pulled apart, then add a little bit more water or stock or beer.
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This Slow Cooker Beer Pulled Pork is easy to prepare, feeds a crowd, tastes delicious and is a little bit lighter than traditional recipes. Perfect for winter months and entertaining | Imagelicious

This Slow Cooker Beer Pulled Pork is easy to prepare, feeds a crowd, tastes delicious and is a little bit lighter than traditional recipes. Perfect for winter months and entertaining | Imagelicious
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Comments

  1. Sean says

    January 4, 2020 at 10:59 pm

    Can you use a pork shoulder instead of three tenderloins?

    Reply
    • Julia says

      January 7, 2020 at 10:12 am

      You might need to change the timing a bit but I think it should work fine.

      Reply
  2. Lauree says

    September 26, 2017 at 12:09 pm

    Can you do this recipe with chicken or beef? I am allergic to pork. Looks good! Thank you

    Reply
    • Julia says

      September 27, 2017 at 1:49 pm

      Yes. You can use chicken breasts in place of pork. I think you could use beef also but I’m not sure what cut

      Reply
  3. Sarah says

    December 1, 2016 at 11:38 pm

    Do you have a beer preference for this recipe or is it seasonal?

    Reply
    • Imagelicious says

      December 11, 2016 at 3:17 pm

      To be honest – I use whatever beer we have in the fridge. I’ve used dark ale and light pilsner – I personally don’t taste much difference

      Reply
  4. Michelle @ Vitamin Sunshine says

    December 1, 2016 at 10:29 pm

    Super gorgeous photos. These look amazing.

    Reply
    • Imagelicious says

      December 11, 2016 at 3:18 pm

      Thank you

      Reply
  5. Florentina says

    December 1, 2016 at 10:13 pm

    Wowza! Hubby will be all over these for sure! Winner!

    Reply
    • Imagelicious says

      December 11, 2016 at 3:18 pm

      Thank you!

      Reply
  6. Platter Talk says

    December 1, 2016 at 7:24 pm

    Looking quite delicious! I bet that the beer gives the pork a nice, hefty flavor.

    Reply
    • Imagelicious says

      December 11, 2016 at 3:18 pm

      Yes, I love using beer in stews too

      Reply

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