lager-marinated grilled pork chops

By pattiaroberts

Ingredients

• 2 12 ounce bottles of lager beer
• 4 garlic cloves, minced
• 1/4 cup packed lite brown sugar
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 1/2 teaspoons salt
• 3/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
• 8 bone in center cut loin pork chops (about 4 pounds)

Preparation

Step 1

1. in medium bowl, stir beer,garlic, brown sugar, oil salt and pepper until brown sugar dissolves. Divide pork chops into 2 large zip top plastic bags...pour 1 1/2 cups of beer mixture into each bag. Seal bags and refrigerate 4 hours or up to overnight.

2. prepare grill for direct grilling over medium heat. remove pork chops from marinade: discard marinate. Place pork chops on hot grill....cover and cook 13-15 minutes or until internal temp reaches 140 degrees, turning once halfway through cooking. Transfer pork chops to server platter and let stand for 5 minutes...the internal temp will rise to 145 degrees