Recipes/Quick Beer Bread

Ingredients

• 1 cup whole wheat flour
• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 1/2 cup old fashioned rolled oats
• 2 tbsp sugar
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1.5 cups light or dark beer (not a stout), cold or at room temperature, not flat

Directions

• Preheat oven to 400 F and grease an 8.5 x 4.5 inch (6 cup) loaf pan
• Whisk flour, oats, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt together thoroughly in a large bowl
• Add the beer
• Fold just until dry ingredients are moistened
• Scrape batter into pan and spread evenly
• Bake until toothpick inserted into center and all the way to bottom comes out clean, 35-40 minutes
• Let cool on the pan rack 10 min before unmolding to cool on the rack

Variations

Beer Cheese and Scallion Bread

• Prepare the quick beer bread as above, and add 1/2 cup finely diced sharp cheddar or aged monterey jack cheese, and 1/4 cup scallions
• Caraway seeds can also be added

Notes

• IPAs will give the bread a nice bitter flavor
• One of my favorite beers to use when making this bread is Founder's All Day IPA

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