Easy Beer Bread (2024)

This Beer Bread Recipe is super easy to make with only 6 ingredients and a crispy buttery crust when it’s done baking. Great on its own with a slab of butter or dipped into soup or chili!

Easy Beer Bread Recipe

Offer me a cold beer and I will immediately decline. Offer me a slice of this beer bread and I will beg you for the entire loaf! The combination of beer, brown sugar, and butter just creates a trifecta of deliciousness that cannot be denied.

What is Beer Bread?

Beer bread is really just any bread that includes beer as an ingredient in the dough. From there, it can vary quite a bit, depending on the type of beer used and the other ingredients, transforming the mixture into a whole loaf or individual rolls.

Since all beer contains yeast, beer bread recipes don’t require additional yeast, nor do they require kneading or a lengthy rise time. The combination of yeast in the beer and sugar is what helps it rise, and an additional leavening agent (like baking powder) keeps it from being too dense.

What Does Beer Bread Taste Like?

Beer Bread will take on the flavor of whatever beer you use, but it’s also buttery, and a little sweet and tangy. It’s really good!

Ingredients Needed

You only need 6 simple ingredients to make this recipe for beer bread.
(Scroll below to the printable recipe card for details and measurements.)

• All-purpose flour – It should be spooned, leveled, and sifted.
• Brown sugar – This adds a subtle sweetness and balances out the beer flavor.
• Baking powder – Gives the bread lift.
• Kosher salt – For flavor.
• Beer – It should be room temperature. See note below for type of beer to use.
• Unsalted butter – If you use salted butter, consider cutting back on the additional salt added.

What Beer is Best for Beer Bread?

You can use any type of beer. If this is your first time making this bread, I recommend trying it with the type of beer you enjoy drinking. After that, play around with different varieties.

Dark style lagers, like Samuel Adams, have notes of caramel and roasted malts, which will give you a strong, but smooth flavor. Whereas Miller Lite or Bud Light will deliver the mildest beer flavor. You can even have fun using seasonal brews like pumpkin ale and hard cider.

How to Make Beer Bread

This recipe comes together in 5 easy steps. You simply whisk the dry ingredients, stir in the beer, transfer to a greased loaf pan, drizzle with butter, and bake! To make this recipe, scroll down to the printable recipe card for details and measurements, and don’t miss the video below.

Recipe Tips

• Sift the flour: Spoon the flour into the measuring cup and level it off with the back of a butter knife, then sift the flour. This will result in a lighter, fluffier crumb.
• Use room temperature beer: This helps the bread rise and creates a better texture than cold beer.
• Don’t over-mix: After adding the beer to the dry ingredients, mix enough until just incorporated and nothing more. Overworking the dough will create a very dense loaf.

Watch it Being Made

Proper Storage

• Enjoy fresh. This bread is best enjoyed the same day it’s baked – fresh from the oven with a slab of butter! As the days go on, the bread will lose some of the beer flavor and also seems to settle and get heavier, but it’s still very delicious.
• Storing leftovers. Anything not eaten should be cooled completely to room temperature, wrapped tightly in foil and placed in a plastic bag, then stored at room temperature for 1 additional day.
• Freeze. After a day, you should freeze it (storing in the fridge dries it out) for up to 1 month. Thaw on the counter overnight and let it come to room temperature. If you want to re-warm it, remove it from the plastic bag and place it in the oven at 300 degrees for about 20 minutes.

More Easy Bread Recipes:

• Irish Soda Bread
• Homemade White Bread
• Dutch Oven Bread
• Focaccia Bread
• Easy Bagel Recipe

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