My favorite honey beer bread recipe is ultra-easy to make with just 6 ingredients (no yeast required) and tastes so buttery and delicious!
Looking for an easy homemade bread recipe that doesn’t require a packet of yeast?
This honey beer bread recipe is here for you. ♡
If you have never made beer bread before, I’m telling you, bread-baking doesn’t get any easier than this! Simply stir 5 basic ingredients together (flour, baking powder, salt, beer and honey), brush melted butter on top of the batter, and bake until golden. Then — voila! — in less than an hour, the most delicious, buttery, cozy and comforting beer bread will yours to enjoy in no time.
It can be served up with just about any kind of meal, although we’re especially partial to dipping it in soups and stews at our house. It can also be easily frozen and saved for later, if you would like. And it’s also easy to customize with various herbs or a handful of shredded cheese, if you would like.
I have probably made this recipe hundreds of times, and thousands of our readers have made and loved it too. So if you haven’t yet given it a try, I say it’s time! ♡
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Honey Beer Bread Ingredients:
All you need are 6 simple ingredients to make this honey beer bread recipe:
- All-purpose flour: This recipe is total comfort food for me, so I have only ever made it with all-purpose flour.
- Baking powder: To help the bread rise.
- Salt: I used fine sea salt.
- Honey: Which balances out the savory flavors here with the perfect hint of sweetness.
- Beer: I typically use an IPA, but just about any kind of favorite beer will work in this recipe!
- Butter: Which we will use to grease the pan and brush on top of the bread to give it some extra-delicious buttery flavor.
How To Make Beer Bread:
Alright, here are the basic steps for how to make beer bread — it couldn’t be easier!
- Make the batter. Super simple! Just stir together the dry ingredients in a mixing bowl, then stir in the beer and honey until combined.
- Add the butter. Pour about half of the melted butter into a 9×5-inch bread pan, and brush it all around to grease the inside of the pan. Add the batter and spread it out in an even layer. Then brush the remaining melted butter evenly on top of the batter.
- Bake. Bake for 40 to 50 minutes, until a toothpick or knife inserted in the middle comes out clean. Remove and transfer the pan to a wire baking rack and let the bread cool for at least 10 minutes.
- Serve. Slice with a bread knife, serve warm and enjoy!
(Detailed recipe instructions and ingredient amounts included in the full recipe below.)
Possible Beer Bread Variations:
Want to customize this beer bread recipe? Feel free to…
- Add herbs: Stir some fresh or dried herbs into the batter. (I especially love adding in some fresh or dried rosemary.)
- Add garlic: Feel free to also mince a clove or two of garlic and add it to the batter to make garlic beer bread.
- Add cheese: Add in a cup or so of shredded cheese to make cheesy beer bread.
More Easy Bread Recipes:
Looking for more easy bread recipes to bake? Here are a few of my faves!
- 1-Hour Soft and Buttery Dinner Rolls
- Rosemary Focaccia Bread
- Healthy Banana Bread
- Catalan Tomato Bread
Honey Beer Bread
Equipment
Ingredients
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon fine sea salt
- 1/4 cup honey*
- 1 bottle (12 ounces) beer
- 1/4 cup butter, melted
Instructions
- Preheat oven. Heat oven to 350°F.
- Make the batter. In a large mixing bowl, stir together the flour, baking powder and salt until combined. Slowly pour the beer and honey into the flour mixture, and stir until combined.
- Add the butter. Pour half of the melted butter into the bottom of a 9x5-inch bread pan, and brush it around to grease the inside of the pan. Add the batter and spread it out in an even layer. Then brush the remaining melted butter evenly on top of the batter.
- Bake. Bake for 40 to 50 minutes, until a toothpick or knife inserted in the middle comes out clean. Remove and transfer the pan to a wire baking rack and let the bread cool for at least 10 minutes.
- Serve. Slice with a bread knife, serve warm and enjoy!
Notes
Did you make this?Let me know how it turned out in the comments below!
Is there anything one could substitute for the beer? For teetotalers and alcoholics. Sounds (and looks) like a fabulously easy bread.
@Debbie, you could do this with coke, sprite, ginger ale, and have the same results with no alcohol. It would be sweeter and would require less to no sweetener depending on how sweet you like it and what you choose to use. Great recipe Ali!
@Debbie,
I’ve been trying to find proper beer substitutes; I think you can use any carbonated beverage? I think it’s all about the carbonation but I could be wrong.
The only thing I could come up with was club soda or carbonated mineral water, but like I said, I think ANY carbonated beverage would suffice as a beer substitute.
Happy baking!
*READ THIS IF YOU ARE ALSO A COMPLETELY INEXPERIENCED BREAD-MAKER:)* I just made this, and had to post :) ! I’ve recently moved to Berlin with my brother, and we are living not so much on a shoe-string budget – as on one half of a split end :) But since I’m looking for work and he’s working, and it’s Friday, and Thanksgiving (we are British, but of American extraction) and our very generous landlord is coming back to share the flat tonight, I thought I’d make this, because not only is it comforting food for the Berlin winter – but it’s incredibly cheap! Anyhow, the flat doesn’t contain anything like a loaf pan, so I figured I’d replace it with a larger, ceramic casserole pan, and up the recipe by half to be sure to not have too much of a flat bread. Right? Wrong. In case anyone out there is as inexperienced as me in these things, then know that the recipe as stated (with pan dimensions) allows room for the rising of the bread and subsequent rising of the butter level. As it was, I went off to clean the bathroom (I’m vying for sister of the year, it seems) and came back to a kitchen full of smoke, which was pouring out of the oven, since the butter had overflowed, was burning on the base of said oven, and dripping copiously onto the floor. On the suggestion of my father (over the phone), I put a second (casserole) dish under the first to catch the rest of the overflow, but it basically smoked throughout baking. This meant that the top of the loaf was rather more burnt than it should have been, because it didn’t have the SPF of the butter :) but the happy conclusion to this all, with my fondest compliments to our hostess and talented composer of this recipe, is that despite all this, the loaf tastes divine, and is a cheap, homely, rustically elegant treat, which I will be serving to our landlord topped with crispy sliced apple and a cold glass of beer. Cheers! xxx
This recipe is simple and amazing !!!! The smell in the house is just divine as it bakes. I’ve made it a few times; doesn’t matter what kind of beer as it always turns out great.
A keeper for sure !!!!!
Can you substiture White whole wheat flour?
This is a great recipe for beer bread, so much flavor. I am ditching my old recipe, which had more B. powder & salt, less flavor.
I made this with Sam Adam’s Octoberfest and it was awesome! I don’t have loaf pans so I used a dutch oven and it still turned out great. Thanks for the recipe and tutorial.
The next day, when you have half a loaf of this fabulous beer bread leftover, apply butter to both sides of a slice. Now, pop this under the broiler until lightly crisped. Turn it over, sprinkle with grated cheddar cheese, pop back under he broiler till the cheese is all golden and bubbly. Cheese bread never tasted so good!
can you substitute whole wheat flour? maybe go with the doubled butter?
Absolutely fantastic! I was looking for a beer bread recipe this morning and decided to try this one. The Boulevard Brewing beer cap is what sold me–I used to live in KC and loved the Boulevard Unfiltered Wheat Beer. I’m glad I chose this recipe. It is absolutely fantastic! The first loaf disappeared quickly and I’m making a second loaf right now. Am going to try with cheese this time.
That bread looks so good! I love recipes that incorporate unique ingredients, and I’ve never seen bread made with beer before. Thanks!