Try using beer with your roast. Combine a can of beer..with a few swigs for the cook..with a package of dry onion soup mix and 1T brown sugar. Put peeled potatoes in the bottom of the crock pot, then the roast and then pour the beer/soup mix over the top. Cook on low 6-7 hours. Remove roast and potatoes, raise the heat to high and thicken the juices with 2T of flour mixed with a little cold beer..stir cook until gravy is thickened.
LOVE that idea—beer is great, since that’s usually on hand in our house! :)
I’ve used Beefy Onion soup mix for when I do a pot roast on the stovetop in my Dutch oven.... but have recently wanted to reduce the high sodium which is contained in those dry soup packets....hence the use of a number of different spices instead.
I’m going to have to try out your gravy idea....my family loves gravy, and your technique sounds awesome. Thank you!