Let's Make Bacon Baked Beans in the Smoker!

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"Comfort food to the max!" ~ Dana

Beans, bacon, brown sugar, BBQ sauce, onions, and jalapenos!

DIRECTIONS: 1. Preheat your smoker to 225 degrees F with medium smoke.

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2. Cook chopped bacon in a cast iron skillet on the stove over medium heat.

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3. Drain bacon, and keep 1 tablespoon of bacon drippings in the pan.

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4. Cook the onion, jalapeno and garlic in the bacon drippings until tender.

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5. Add the beans, ketchup, brown sugar, beer, molasses, BBQ sauce and seasonings.

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6. Put the skillet on the rack over indirect heat in the smoker.

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7. Smoke until beans are hot and bubbling, about 2 1/2 hours. Stir beans every 30 minutes.

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8. Top with reserved bacon, serve and ENJOY!

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