Root Beer Baked Beans

• 2 slices Bacon -- diced
• 1 small Onion -- diced
• 36 ounces Baked beans (canned)
• 1/2 cup Root beer (not diet)
• 1/4 cup Barbecue sauce
• 1/2 teaspoon Dry mustard
• drop Hot pepper sauce, to taste
• Freshly ground black pepper -to taste

Cook bacon with onion in saucepan until bacon is brown and crisp. Add remaining ingredients. Heat to a boil; reduce heat and simmer, stir ring often, until slightly thickened, about 20 mins.
Prep time: 5 mins. Cooking time: 25 mins.

Source: Hagerstown Herald-Mail; Hagerstown, MD