Doc's Secret Remedy Chili

8 Servings

1/4 c cooking oil
3 lb beef, boneless sirloin,
1 london broil (or tri-tip)
1 steak, cubed
6 oz bulk pork sausage
1 cn (14 1/2 oz.) beef broth
1 cn (8 oz.) tomato sauce
1 cn (6 oz.) tomato cocktail
1 cn or bottle (12 oz.) beer
11 T chili powder
1 T onion powder
1 t garlic powder
2 t tabasco sauce
1 T cumin, Ground
1 salt, To Taste
Heat oil in Dutch oven over medium heat. Cook beef in oil, stirring occasionally, until beef is brown. Cook sausage in small skillet, stirring frequently, until no longer pink; drain.
Stir pork, 1 cup of the beef broth, the tomato sauce, the tomato cocktail, 3/4 cup of the beer, 6 tablespoons of the chili powder, the onion powder, garlic powder and 1 teaspoon of the pepper sauce into beef.(At this point feel free to drink the remaining 6 oz. of beer. After all, cooking chili is hot work.) Heat to boiling; reduce heat. Simmer uncovered about 1 1/2 hours, adding remaining beef broth for desired consistancy. Cook until beef is fork tender.
Stir in rest of chili powder, pepper sauce and cumin. Simmer uncovered 30 minutes. Salt to taste.