Learn how to make the best baked beans with bacon and bourbon! These easy bacon baked beans are an irresistible blend of bold sweet, savory and smoky flavors! Bursting with brown sugar and rich whiskey, and finished with candied bacon, this baked bean recipe is always a hit with a crowd!
This Southern recipe is like a choose-your-own-adventure for BBQ beans! You can make these baked beans with either dried beans or canned beans! Plus, you can make these whiskey beans in the oven, a slow cooker or crockpot, or slow cook them on the stove! Regardless how you make them, it’s the perfect side dish for potlucks, summer picnics, backyard barbecues and outdoor cookouts!

Update: This post was originally published in June 2015. I made a few tweaks to the recipe, along with a few updates the post below to include more information about bacon baked beans! Plus, I added step by step photos and a recipe video to show you how easy these homemade barbecue beans are to make! Hi, friends! I hope you are ready to get your grub on!
Today I am sharing a recipe for the most magical fruit! Because really, no summer gathering is complete without some epic barbecued beans! While canned BBQ beans are cheap and convenient, they just can’t compete with the complex, robust flavor found in this brown sugar baked beans recipe!!

Easy baked beans: recipe overview
This baked beans with bacon recipe is the perfect side dish for any BBQ, pool party, picnic or potluck! And, they are so deliciou...