Brewery Pulled Pork Sandwiches Recipe

This isn’t your average pulled pork recipe. You can get deep flavor with a can of lager and a delicious Carolina vinegar sauce—without a smoker. Bring your beer to a boil in a Dutch oven and bake your pork shoulder. After a few hours, you can pull it and top it with the sweet and vinegary Carolina sauce. Serve up a sandwich your customers will crave—and come back for. 

Ingredients

 

Pulled Pork

YIELD: 16 Servings

AMOUNTSMAIN INGREDIENTS
1 EA.Pork Shoulder with skin and bones (about 8 LB.)
1 TBSP.Salt-free Cajun Seasoning 
1 tbsp.Salt (Optional)
12 oz.Bottled Lager Beer
16 Ea. Soft Buns (Potato Buns)

 

Sub-Recipe Ingredients

Carolina Vinegar Sauce

YIELD: 16 Servings

AMOUNTMAIN INGREDIENTS
2/3 cupWhite Distilled Vinegar 
1/3 cupTomato Ketchup
1/2 tsp.Hot Red Pepper Sauce

Directions

Pulled Pork

Step 1: Preheat oven to 325°F

Step 2: Using a sharp knife, score skin of pork shoulder, taking care not to cut into flesh, with lines running the length of the shoulder spaced 1 inch apart.

Step 3: Rub Cajun seasoning and salt, if using, evenly all over pork.

Step 4: Place pork in hotel pan, skin side down, and pour beer around pork.

Step 5: Bring beer to boil over high heat. Cover tightly, transfer to pre-heated oven to cook for 2 hours.

Step 6: Turn pork over, putting any skin that sticks to bottom of pan back on top of pork. Return to oven, uncovered, until pork is fork-tender, 1 1/2 to 2 hours more.

Step 7: Remove from oven. Let pork rest, covered, for 30 to 60 minutes.

Step 8: While pork rests, prepare Carolina Vinegar Sauce. 

Step 9: Transfer pork to chopping board.

Step 10: Pour off pan juices into glass bowl; let stand.

Step 11: Using a knife, cut pork off bone. Using two forks, pull pork into shreds or chop with knife, discarding fat and rind as desired. Transfer to a large bowl.

Step 12: Skim off and discard yellow fat from pan juices; stir juices into pork.

Step 13: Serve pork on buns with Carolina Vinegar Sauce on the side for drizzling on the pork.

Sub-Recipe Directions

Carolina Vinegar Sauce

Step 1: In a small bowl whisk vinegar, ketchup and hot sauce. Set aside.

Application Uses
MEAL
Dinner
Lunch
CUISINE
American

 

 

MAIN INGREDIENTS
Pork