Ingredients

• 4 cups beer (not dark)
• 1/4 cup Bavarian mustard
• 2 tablespoons ketchup
• 4 large onions
• 12 uncooked bratwursts
• 6 hard rolls, halved and well buttered
• sliced dill pickles
• Bavarian mustard

Instructions

1. In a large deep heavy skillet stir together beer, mustard, and ketchup.
2. Cut 1 onion into thick slices and add to beer mixture.
3. Bring beer mixture to a boil and in it simmer bratwursts, uncovered, turning occasionally, 20 minutes.
4. Prepare gill.
5. Remove bratwursts from beer mixture, discarding beer mixture. Cut remaining 3 onions into thick slices, keeping slices intact.
6. Grill bratwursts with onion slices on an oiled rack set 5 to 6 inches over glowing coals, turning onions once, until bratwursts are cooked through and golden brown and onions are cooked through, about 5 minutes.
7. Put a pair of "brats," cut in half lengthwise and stacked, on each roll.
8. Top brats with grilled onion, pickles, and mustard.