Guinness Beer Beef Chuck Roast Recipe
This Guinness Beer Beef Chuck Roast Recipe is braised in a rich sauce with onions and carrots. After baking for 3 hours, it’s tender and ready to serve!
Friends, my husband and I are so in awe of our new surroundings. It’s like we’re little kids, only with an adult perspective. Travel, change, new adventures are so important, but you don’t have to go to the other side of the world to experience them.
With this recipe today, Guinness Pot Roast Stew, I think of Ireland (and cooking for St. Patricks Day), a place that is dear to my husband and my hearts, with fond memories of our visit to Dublin a few years back.
Back to reality, we find that daily, since we both work from home, it’s important to get out of those same 4 walls we’ve been staring at. We’re not in Dublin (where Paul’s parents immigrated from), even though we hope to visit there again one day, but we’re home here in central Oregon.
We drive to the city, put on our snowshoes, walk down by the river, take a hike to the mountains—places that are unfamiliar to us.
It’s all new, the rhythm and sounds, backdrops of blue and white nature. It does something new to our souls, freshens our spirits, and revives our dreams and goals. We find ourselves praying more, with more quiet in our lives.
The impossibles have a lighter spirit of possible, and this is important.
Paul and I have always been big dreamers. When we stare up into the sky (night skies are fabulous here!), it not only makes us think of our mortality, but it makes us dream big.
The fullness of life, the here and now. The closeness with our kids, our church, and our growing community.
It makes me take a quick breath, and then a sigh. Thank you God, for today!
Guinness Beer Beef Chuck Roast Recipe
Our family enjoyed this Guinness Pot Roast Stew earlier this week, a simple recipe that only takes a few minutes to prepare.
Put in the oven at 300 degrees, and walk away for 3 hours.
A rich sauce, with lovely espresso and Guinness beer, it truly reminds us of the Irish.
A reality for my husband, with his deep roots, served up on our dinner table, talked about, and shared with our kids.
Guinness Beer Beef Chuck Roast Recipe
Bake for 3 hours or until tender. Or, simmer on stove until meat is tender. For crockpot, cook on HI for 3-4 hours. You can substitute the beer with beef broth or non-alcoholic beer.
Ingredients:
- 2-3 lbs. beef chuck roast
- Salt and pepper
- 3 large onions, coarsely chopped
- 6 large carrots, cut in 1-inch chunks (leave peel on)
- 4 Tbsp. olive oil, divided
- 3 large garlic cloves, crushed
- 1 small can tomato paste, dissolved in 1 1/2 cups of hot water
- 2 Tbsp. instant coffee (use a good quality)
- 1-2 tsp. chili red pepper flakes
- 1 can 14 oz. Guinness beer, about 2 cups
- Sprigs of basil or thyme
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 300 degrees. (Or you can also use stove top or crock-pot.)
- Heat 2 Tbsp. oil in a wide frying pan over a high heat. Brown the meat on all sides; heavily salt and pepper both sides.
- Remove the meat and set aside.
- In a separate small bowl, add to 1 1/2 cups of hot water the tomato paste, instant coffee, and chili flakes. Mix well.
- In the same frying pan, heat the remaining oil and sauté the garlic, adding the tomato paste mixture. Mix together (will be thick).
- Chop the onions, and place in the bottom of a Dutch oven. Place the cooked piece of meat on top. Spread the paste on top of the meat. Add fresh herbs for additional flavor.
- Place the chopped carrots on top of the meat and sauce. Pour the Guinness beer on top.
- Cover with the lid of the casserole/Dutch oven and simmer very gently on stove (very low heat) until the meat is tender (toward the end of 3 hours, make sure there is enough liquid). OR bake at 300 degrees for about 3 hours +15 minutes (or until tender). OR cook in the crock pot on HI for 3-4 hours until tender.
- Allow to sit for 20 minutes before serving.
More Irish recipes:
Bacon Shredded Pork Tacos + Guinness Floats
This looks especially delicious on this cold day!
YUM! Looks so good!!
Thanks Sandy! What do you think would be comparable time in a crock pot?
HI for probably 3-4 hours.
I am going to cook this now and wanted to do it in a slow cooker. the recipe says HI but then you wrote you don’t ever use Hi. Should it be LOW or HI for 3-4 hours?
HI for this cut of beef :)
Does the red pepper flakes make this spicy? This looks really good but my husband does not like spicy. Thanks!
You can keep out the red pepper flakes. Won’t be as tasty, but still very good!
I’m confused?? It says tomoreheat oven to 300 degrees but then you simmer it on stovetop for 3 hours? When does it go in the oven? Looks delicious and I don’t want to mess it up!! ?
Bake in the oven for 3 hours 15 minutes, or until done :)
Do you simmer on a stove top or bake in the oven?
Hi, Dawn. You can do either, or cook in the slow cooker! :)
How much water do you dissolve the instant coffee in before adding it?
It’s listed in the recipe Tonya, I added 1 1/2 cups of hot water to the mixture.
I presume it’s 300 degrees Fahrenheit, not Celsius (approx 150 C)?
That’s right Jacqui!
This looks great! Can I add potatoes if I want?
I like the flavor beer adds to beef- and use it all the time- never considered instant coffee though. I will have to try it!
Can you use any type of Guinness? I don’t drink coffee so what would you consider as “good quality coffee”?
Sure, any type of stout or beer. You can leave out the coffee, but it won’t taste quite as rich (and good).
I have cooked chuck roast in a similar way, what confuses me is why they would add ‘olive iol’ twice to this recipe !! when chuck is very fatty anyway, l’m sorry the gravy would be just way too greasy for me, l hate greasy, fatty gravy with a passion, now the recipe sounds delish but can you recommend on how to nit have greasy fatty gravy??
It’s not greasy, Christina. Feel free to cut down on the oil! ENJOY!
This looks amazing, but can I use a different beer?
Yes you can!
This looks heavenly! Why do you leave the skins on the carrots? I’ve noticed the past few years that the carrots get “soggy” no matter how much or little I cook them, especially if I make a post roast or soup and freeze half for later.
Do you have a secret to keep carrots “not mushy” after freezing?
Thanks for the great recipes!
I buy fresh carrots for this recipe, Kathy (don’t freeze them). I keep the skins on because it’s added nutrients.
Deep Irish roots? There is little Irish about this dish. Coffee?? Unheard of in a beef in Guinness. Also – canned draught Guinness? The original Guinness would be used – CO2 conditioned; preferably the small bottles. Tomato paste is also questionable. No authenticity here!
Hi, Paul. A one-pot meal with and carrots (you can add potatoes) with Guinness is authentic to us! We love trying new flavors and adding a spin on a classic recipe. And yes, we have deep Irish roots. Thanks for your comment!
She never said it was an authentic recipe. She is sharing a family recipe that reminds her of time spent in Dublin. I don’t understand why people have to be so rude in the comments. If it doesn’t appeal to you, move on.
Looks like a lovely recipe, and can’t wait to try it. Have had traditional Irish stew and am excited to try this spin on it. I think I may serve it over mashed potatoes. :)
I have an Instant Pot. There is a beef setting on there. If I use that, I think it would be around 20 minutes to “pressure cook”. Have you or anyone else tried it this way?
You said 1 and 1/2 cups hot water to dissolve the tomatoe paste in, but what about the coffee? It looks in the video like it is a considerable less amount of liquid
Use instant coffe, Tresa :)
How much water to dissolve the instant coffe ? I don’t want the sauce to be thin….
Do you take the Rosemary out after cooking? Before you serve it?
If you have an entire sprig, yes. If it’s chopped, no!
Do you think that this would work using corned beef instead of beef chuck?
Stacie, I have not tried it with Corned Beef (which is really salty). Let me know if you do, and if you like it!
Ok… maybe I’m borderline slow? But is the coffee dry? Or disliked in a liquid? And how much?
In the same frying pan, heat the remaining oil and sauté the garlic, adding the tomato paste, water, instant coffee, and chili flakes. Mix together (will be thick).
I am trying to determine if I dissolve the instant coffee in water prior to adding it to the pan? The recipe states you want to combine the water and the tomato paste (in the ingredients list) – but doesn’t state anything about the coffee. So – my question is – do I add the instant coffee to the pot dry with the other ingredients – or do I add water to the instant coffee prior to putting it in the pan?
Hope this helps!
In a separate small bowl, add to 1 1/2 cups of hot water the tomato paste, instant coffee, and chili flakes. Mix well.
In the same frying pan, heat the remaining oil and sauté the garlic, adding the tomato paste mixture. Mix together (will be thick).
*disolved
Mmmmmmm…Delicious!! Made last night and it was perfect- flavorful and very tender. Yum!
YAY! Happy St. Patrick’s Day Debra!
Can you use any type of beer. In your opinion, what type of beer would be the best to use for this recipe.
Any kind of beer works! But a stout is richer!
How much beer, paste and coffee for a 5-6 pd roast?
I’d stick to the same recipe, Debbie, but make sure to have extra stock on hand in case you need it (to add moisture). ENJOY!
Fabulous! I served it over egg noodles. My husband loved it and said it was a “keeper”. Easy and delicious.
Love that you served it on noodles, great idea!
Thanks for the recipe Sandy. Sorry there so many mutants out there with ridiculous questions. I just followed the recipe and it’s on the stove top in a Dutch oven for 3 more hours. House smells great too. Will let you know how it came out.
Making this for dinner tonight, excited to try it!
Hi. I do not drink beer, i am just wondering what it taste like. I would really like to try this, just scared about the beer. Thanks.
The beer makes it delicious, Florence, but you could always use more stock!
House smells great 25 minutes to go and 20 to rest. I added potatoes & snap peas to mine, left out the pepper flakes cause hubby doesn’t care for that flavor cannot wait to taste this hearty dish!@
What can I add in the end if there isn’t enough liquid . More beer or water ?
Stock or beer!
Do Not cook in Crock pot. It will not be as nice of a flavor. Tried it on the stove and the in the crock pit. And it was not as well flavored.
Thanks for letting us know! Stovetop and oven are best! :)