When you fry your brats, after they are done, you put them in a kettle of hot beer and serve them from there.
Then, you put them on a hard roll hamburger bun (two at a time) load them up and down them. With a beer.
East central Wisconsin had the best. I lived about two miles from Johnsonville for several years. Went to many a wedding dance at Laacks hall there and on Sunday after church we would stop in and have a few beers and listen to the elders talk German-low German.
My first wife and I had our wedding reception at Laacks hall. The Reinhardt Geadke band was the band we had.
I’ve cooked them in beer on the grill, with chopped up onions and sauerkraut.
Even done em in Guinness. Not German, but good.