Ron Shewchuk's Classic Baked Beans

By Cooky

Great, dark beer makes a wonderful sauce

Ingredients

• 19 oz can of white kidney beans
• 19 oz can of red kidney beans
• 19 oz can of black beans
• 0.5 # smoked bacon (recipe called for 1#; I used maple bacon)
• 1 large onion, diced
• 1 T chili powder
• 1 tsp cumin
• 2 tsp canned chipotles in adobo sauce, finely chopped (found with Mexican foods)
• 3/4 cup dark brown sugar (recipe called for 1.25 c)
• 3 T molasses (I omitted)
• 1 bottle Guinness Beer (or any dark beer)
• Salt and Freshly Ground Pepper

Preparation

Step 1

1. Drain and rinse beans.
2. Cook bacon. Drain all but 1-2 T of bacon fat (reserve to cook onions). Set bacon aside.
3. Cook onions in bacon fat until soft.
4. Add to onions, the chili powder, cumin and chipotles.
5. Cook a further 5 minutes until flavours are well blended.
6. In a large dutch oven,