Delicious and Easy Guinness Bread Recipe (2024)

FAQs

How do you make Guinness taste better? ›

Add some bubbles. If you want to pretend to be upper-class as well as Irish this Paddy's Day, get adding some champagne to the black stuff. This brilliant mix is known as a Black Velvet!

*If you don't have access to KA's whole meal Irish-style flour, you can substitute Whole wheat pastry flour. It will be finer, and the loaf a be a bit moister, but it is an adequate substitute.

Beer is grain, yeast and water—it's liquid bread! —so it really compliments a loaf, and as a replacement for water, it adds something special to the most humble bake. It couldn't be simpler to try this out: just get your normal loaf recipe and change out beer for water, 1:1.

Use a plain, ultra light beer like Miller Light. (If you live in Wisconsin and want an upgrade, try New Glarus Spotted Cow.) Go Seasonal. Try making beer bread with pumpkin ale, a nutty brown winter ale, or even a hard cider.

Guinness: Newly Minted

A combination of stout beer and white crème de menthe, the two ingredients pair really well together to create a warm chocolatey character. The trick here is to use lots of ice and serve with a sprig of mint.

Guinness is a hearty beer with notes of coffee and dark chocolate. It pairs well with soda bread, a staple in Ireland. Clavin said a classic cheese board is a good snack pairing, with strawberry preserves and sharp Irish cheddar, Gouda, Asiago or Pecorino Romano cheeses to contrast the sweetness of the beer.

Irish wholemeal flour is milled from lower protein soft winter wheat and contains less of the strength-forming elasticity found in all-purpose flour, bread flour, and other wheat flours (which are made with higher protein hard winter wheat).

Amaranth is an ancient grain that can be ground finely for a light, gluten free flour. Similar to buckwheat, amaranth is also a pseudocereal. It has a super nutty, earthy flavor that's tasty in cakes, scones, and breads. Because of it's ultra fine texture, substitute it for about 25% of the wheat flour in your recipe.

Strong flour is also commonly known as bread flour, and contains more gluten than the other types of flour. The gluten in the flour gives dough elasticity and allows it to rise with a good structure. Strong flour is best used for yeasted bakes and enriched doughs.

Using milk instead of water in your yeasted bread is an easy way to add a touch of sweetness, making it ideal for challah, dinner rolls, cinnamon rolls, and hot dog buns. Milk sugars not only add a hint of sweetness but also result in a softer, more uniform crumb and ensure a nicely browned crust.

What happens if you use milk instead of water to make bread? ›

You will need a bit more milk than the amount of water required (because of the milk solids). The dough will be softer, the crumb less open. You will have to bake it at lower temperatures than a lean bread. In other words, your bread will be more like a sandwich bread.

When you add beer to your bread mix, the beer's yeast content reacts with the baking powder and starches in the flour, causing the dough to rise and start to leaven. When you add the beer, you might notice the dough bubble and foam—that's the yeast working its magic!

At the bar, Guinness should be poured into a glass tilted at 45 degrees until it's three-quarters full. Then your barkeep should let it sit for two minutes to settle before topping it off with the quintessential creamy white head. At home, let the can chill for at least three hours.

I think it's too sweet. Since I want the Guinness's flavor but not the bitterness, a few drops of Blackcurrant Syrup or Crème de Cassis works just fine for me. Girls like to drink it this way because it's sweeter.

Generally, light-body and low-alcohol beers (e.g., mass-market lagers, German pilsners and wheat beers) are best served cold, while full-body and high-alcohol beers are best served warmer (e.g., IPAs, Belgian ales and, in the case of Guinness, stouts).