I’ve been making this bread for a while now, I can’t remember where the recipe came from but it recently won me some beer from Bristol Beer Factory so thought I had better post it on here. There is also an excellent recipe by the hair bikers for Newcastle Brown Ale and cheese bread on the bbc site
Great with just about everything.
Ingredients:
- 3x7g sachets of dried yeast
- 30g of honey
- 600ml (ish) of your favorite beer at room temperature or even slightly warm.
- 1kg of stong white flour
- pinch of salt
method
- Disolve the honey and yeast in the beer, cover and set aside until a nice thick foam has formed on the top
- Then in a massive bowl or on large surface make a pile of the flour and then mix in the beer mixture a bit at a time and mix until you have a dough.
- Knead for 5-10 min unti l the dough is smooth.
- Place in a bowl and cover with oiled cling film or a warm damp tea towel, place the bowl in a warm place for an hour or two until the dough has doubled in size. The longer you leave it the lighter your bread will be
- Then knock out all of the air in the dough by re kneading for 2mins
- Now to shape the bread….as you will see below i seperated mine into 6 balls then placed in a round (greased) cake tin with 4 round the edge and 1 in the middle, but you can do it how you want.
- Leave to prove for another hour or two (until its doubled in size), again the longer you leave it the lighter your bread will be
- Carefuly put in a preheated 220 degree c oven for 20/25 mins until golden or the base sounds hollow when tapped.
- Allow to cool slightly then tuck in.
It makes brilliant toast for with pate, or the most amazing sandwiches when used with Cider cooked gammon
Looks good! Can’t beat the smell of fresh bread baking in the over.
A good idea for brewers which I’ve had great success with, instead of yeast, beer and honey take some beer from your brew half way though the fermentation.
Nice recipe. On the odd ocassion i get bottle conditioned beer(usually coniston bluebird)I use the residual yeast in bread, and find it still rises well if slower.
Beer bread also goes perfectly with good smoked salmon with either butter or cream cheese. it goes down really well at parties.