Honey Beer Bread at Home

I used two of my regular local things for this bread: 1) Tennessee honey. I didn’t realize how bad store bought honey is until I started buying local honey at the farmer’s market. I could eat this honey by the spoonful (and maybe sometimes I do. There’s no judgement here).

2) Tennessee Beer: Blackstone’s Chaser Pale Ale. We’ve been to Blackstone here in Nashville a few times and truly love it. It’s particularly a go-to of Stephen. I debated putting Guinness in this bread to make it more appropriately themed for St. Patrick’s Day. However, I wanted something a bit lighter. So, Chaser Pale Ale it is.

This bread comes together particularly quickly and involves NO kneading and NO waiting. (I’m a particularly impatient person).

The recipe requires 2 beers: 1 for drinking and 1 for the actual bread. This is important.

First the dry ingredients are sifted together. Don’t skip the sifting!

Then the beer is added. You want to add the whole beer, down to the last drop.

Then the honey is added in.

And it’s stirred up realllll nice until the flour is only combined.

Now the fun part! We’re going to simply pour half of the butter into the pan. No stirring. Simply pour it in the bottom of the pan. It holds up.

Now the bread dough will go on top.

And…….more buttAH simply poured right on the top! I told you this dish was great.

I used a pastry brush to brush the butter around and get it in all of the crevices. It’s baked for about an hour. And then, this deliciousness emerges from the butter scented oven:

It’s kind of hard and crusty and buttery on the outside but sweet and soft on the inside. It’s what magic is made of, I’m telling you.

My go-to way to eat this bread is by spreading MORE butter and honey on the top. I think some kind of jam would be good on it too but I haven’t wanted to try because it’s SO flavor-packed on its own.

So yea, you’re going to want for this bread ASAP. Then you can thank me later.