As part of my plan to use the food in my kitchen, I’ve been making a lot of beer bread. Why? Because we have a lot of old beer in my house. Neither Hubby nor I drink beer so it just sits on the shelf waiting for someone to visit, which doesn’t help becuase most of my friends don’t drink beer either.
The only way I know to use up beer is to make beer bread. This super simple recipe doesn’t taste anything like beer. It is just delicious. I’ve been using Pabst Blue Ribbon for a long time and am finally down to one can. I have about five other types of beer from Bud to an IPA to Guiness. I’ve been hesitant to try these beers in the recipe because I may not like the flavor. Obviously, Pabst is a low end beer and it works great. How would a more expensive beer make the bread taste?
For fun I decided to use a Corona so I can call it COVID bread. It baked wonderfully and the taste surprised me. The beer flavor (not the alcohol flavor) is mild with the Corona. It just tastes like bread, not beer bread. I like it a lot, but I think I like the Pabst better (for bread, not for drinking.)
I have about fifteen beers to use up. Next time I’ll try an IPA. It will probaby be okay. The one I am concerned about it the Guiness, but it will get it’s turn too. Now that I know other beers make good beer bread I’m ready to experiment, and reduce the amount of beer I take to Montana (hopefully that number will be zero.)
Jennifer’s Beer Bread
- 3 cups flour
- 3 tsp. baking powder
- 3/4 tsp. salt
- 3 tsp sugar
- 12 oz. beer
- Preheat the over to 350 degrees.
- Grease a bread pan.
- Mix the dry ingredients.
- Add the beer and mix until doughy.
- Pour into the bread pan.
- Bake 50 minutes to 1 hour.
My first thought about the Guiness was to make brown bread (like Cheesecake Factory or Black Angus). But it is more involved, which seems to be the antithesis of your simple beer bread recipe…