Beers, Brats, Battlestar Galactica

It'd been a while since I'd had brats, and while I was at the store picking up the ingredients for the next recipe and saw a pack of cheddar and beer brats I'd decided to go ahead and pick it up, along with some stuff to go with it.

Ingredients:

1 Package of Tailgate Cheddar and Beer Brats

1 Yellow Onion

1 Orange Pepper
3 12oz Cans of Beer
1 Package of Brat Buns
Mustard
Relish

Instructions:

Brown the brats in a pan

Slice the onion

Add the brats and half of the onion to the slowcooker

Cook on low for 4-6 hours, or 2-4 on high

Slice the pepper

Pan fry the pepper and remaining onion

Add the mustard and relish to the bun

Add brat to the bun

Top with slowcooker onions and pepper and onion mix

This turned out fairly well, but beer brats usually work out fairly well.  There were a couple of things that I could have done better though.  I didn't really notice the cheese in the brats, but that might have just been due to the manner of cooking not being conducive to cheddar brats, or that there was just too much other stuff going on.  I probably didn't need the pepper and onion mix in addition to the beer onions.  Speaking of those, I forgot the first rule of slowcookers when making these.  I put the onions on top of the brats instead of below, so they didn't wind up fully cooked and were still a bit on the hard side.  I probably could have made do with only two cans of beer, which would have left another to be disposed of by other means.