dammit. There are 10 billion recipes, and I don’t know which is a ‘good’ one. I’ve tried during the past year to make a winner, in the crock pot, and it just doesn’t turn out as good. It’s like, beef stew with some beer. OK, but not the one.
So do you have a great recipe? No bitterness? I just use chuck roast.
This is hands-down the best beef stew recipe I’ve ever come across. Now, it calls for red wine, but I see no reason why you couldn’t use beer.
You could also try making a carbonnade Flamande (Flemish beef stew with ale).
Yes. The America’s Test Kitchen recipe for Guinness beef stew kicks ass. I’ve made it a couple of times and I recommend it.
Here’s one with mushrooms:
I made it with Shiner Bock instead of Guinness and it came out great.
Heh. I once made a stew with a porter made from coffee. I didn’t know that it was made from real coffee; I thought the beer name was taking artistic license and comparing the color of their brew to espresso.
The stew tasted fantastic. However, the caffeine in it kept me up all night.
I do believe that this is the recipe I’ve been using. It is great!
open 1 can of cambell’s chunky beef stew into a bowl and mircowave for 3-4 min.
while it is heating up, open a can of Guinness Draft (not the bottle, you need the widget!)
enjoy.
Thanks for the help, these all look fantastic. I’ll peruse each one and make a decision for our St. Patricks Day eats.
As soon as I saw this I thought “Bet it’s Kenji Lopez” 
Dude knows some shit about umami. I never would have thought of using gelatin.
It’s a somewhat known trick for getting that rich mouthfeel of a soup or stew up. Like if you do a broth with a lot of meat but little bone, and you want to make it texturally “fuller” for lack of better word. It’s also a great addition in meatloaves and burgers made from poultry, where you want to help keep the loaf or patty from drying out. The gelatin absorbs a good amount of moisture and yields a very juice patty/loaf from meat like turkey and chicken which has a tendency to dry out in this type of application.