Sweet and Spicy Ginger Beer Pulled Pork

This is a relaxed slow cooker pulled pork recipe that uses ginger beer. The end result is absolutely amazing. Feel free to play with the ingredients, more or less here and there, to suit the tastes of your family.

• Preparation Time: 10 mins
• Cooking Time: 10 hr
• Total Time: 10 hr 10 mins
• Calories: 190 Calories

Ingredients

• 2 teaspoons kosher salt
• 1 teaspoon ground black pepper
• 1 teaspoon red pepper flakes
• 1 teaspoon garlic powder, or more to taste
• 1 ½ teaspoons smoked paprika
• 2 sweet onions, peeled and quartered
• 1 ½ teaspoons dark brown sugar, or more to taste
• 1 (6 pound) Boston pork butt roast
• 13 fluid ounces ginger beer

Recipe Instructions

Step 1

Arrange onions in the bottom of a slow cooker.

Step 2

Mix salt, brown sugar, paprika, black pepper, garlic powder, and red pepper flakes together in a bowl until well mixed; rub all over pork roast. Place roast in the slow cooker, fat-side up.

Step 3

Cook on Low for 1 hour. Pour ginger beer into slow cooker; continue cooking until roast is tender and pulls apart easily with a fork, 9 to 11 hours.