First: beer, into the beer is mainly to make the beef can be very good soft rotten flavor, beer contains a lot of yeast and gas, and its boiling point is relatively low, in the stewed beef into the beer beer inside the yeast can be very good to soften the beef inside the fiber, so that the beef in the stew is relatively easy to be soft rotten flavor, we put when a catty of beef to put 200ml of beerDried hawthorn, dried hawthorn is essential in beef stew, because hawthorn contains more hawthorn acid, which can improve the activity of proteolytic enzymes, so it can be very good disintegration of beef inside the fat and protein, so that the beef will be very easy to soften, when a catty of beef to put 3-5 pieces of dried hawthorn can be.