Easy Beer Bread

Beer bread is an easy rustic recipe with great flavor perfect for many uses. Two versions of the recipe allow delicious results either way you make it!

Course Side Dish

Cuisine American

Prep Time 10

Cook Time 50

Total Time 1 20

Servings slices

Calories 188kcal

Author Toni Dash

Ingredients

Classic Beer Bread

3 cups Self Rising Flour
1/4 cup Granulated Sugar
12 ounce bottle or can Beer regular or gluten-free, room temperature
Unsalted Butter for greasing the loaf pan

Enhanced Beer Bread

1 packet packet Active Yeast
12 ounce bottle/can Beer regular or gluten-free, room temperature
3 cups all purpose flour All Purpose Flour (regular or gluten-free measure-for-measure flour blend)
1 tablespoon plus 1 ½ teaspoons Baking Powder
1 ½ teaspoons Kosher Salt
¼ cup Granulated Sugar
2 Eggs , room temperature, lightly beaten
2 tablespoons Unsalted Butter , melted (plus extra for greasing loaf pan)

Instructions

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Grease a 9 inch loaf pan with butter.

Classic Beer Bread

In a mixing bowl combine the flour and sugar. Pour in the beer and stir to fully combine.
Spoon the batter into the prepared loaf pan. Follow instructions for baking below.

Enhanced Beer Bread

In a small bowl combine the yeast and ¼ cup of the beer. Stir together and set aside.
Sift together flour, baking powder, salt and sugar into a large mixing bowl.
Stir the eggs followed by the yeast mixture and remaining beer. Combine fully by hand stirring with a mixing spoon. Spoon into the prepared loaf pan.
Drizzle with the melted butter.

Baking for Either Type of Beer Bread

Bake for 45-50 minutes until the bread has risen, the top is lightly browned and cracking slightly (refer to photo of whole loaf for an example).
Remove from oven, turn out of the pan onto a cooling rack. Allow to cool at least 15 minutes before cutting.

Notes

Classic Beer Bread

This is the original recipe mentioned in the blog post. It's a basic recipe and requires Self Rising Flour.

For gluten-free bakers: To my knowledge there is not a commercially available gluten-free self rising flour. You can make your own self-rising blend or make the Enhanced Beer Bread recipe which uses regular flour, either regular or gluten-free.

Enhanced Beer Bread

This version is an evolution of the first Basic Beer Bread. It's softer and rises a bit differently due to adding yeast. Because it uses regular flour (NOT self rising flour) the yeast is needed to help the bread rise.

This version can use either regular all purpose flour or a gluten-free measure-for-measure flour blend.

Recipe Notes:

The batter will be sticky. If using a silicon spoon to spoon batter into the prepared loaf pan, it can be sprayed with non-stick spray to more easily get it into the pan.

What Beer to Use. Any beer can be used for this recipe. The flavor of the beer will affect the flavor of the bread so use that as a guide when making a beer selection. Regular or gluten-free beer can be used. The beer should be room temperature.

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