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!
Great site. Love your Honey Beer Bread Recipe and you site. I will try this and will get back to you and let you know how I love it. Awesome Site!!!!!
Made this tonight and loved everything about it….it tasted wonderful, sliced perfectly and came out of the pan clean. I used a Blue Moon beer and it was perfect – just enough to know it was beer bread but not overbearing. Tonight I served it with a steaming bowl of soup but would be great with chili or cut into chunks and served with spinach dip. Thanks for posting!!
I’ve made beer bread off and on for years. Love the yeast bread taste without having to wait for the yeast!!!!
Here is another use for this old stand-by recipe: add a bit more flour (white or whole wheat) and knead into a not so sticky dough. Press into a cake pan and top with pizza sauces and toppings. Bake as usual.
Very good!
I agree with many other’s, a stronger flavored beer adds a more yeasty and flavored taste variety.
Amazing! I add some mature white cheddar cheese, diced red onion and a small bit of garlic and some italian herbs, such a beautiful mix!
Madethis tonight with cinnamon raw honey. TO DIE FOR
I’m in college so I made it with a Bud light and it still turned out really well. Hopefully next time I can snag a more flavorful beer to amp up the flavor, but otherwise I GREAT recipe.
I am wondering if yeast should be added to this beer bread recipe.
Beer has yeast in it. That’s why you make it with beer and not yeast.
Beer does not necessarily have yeast in it. Many beers are filtered and pasteurized before bottling. Only if you are using a bottle conditioned or unfiltered beer would there be yeast. Even then it is a different variety of yeast and I suspect would not have much affect on the leavening of a bread.
No, there’s yeast in the beer… and you can use self rising flour. I make this all the time. Self rising flour works best I think
I made this tonight for the second time! I made it as muffins and it made 10 great big impressive muffins and baked up in about 20-25 minutes. I have found it freezes great! A great go-to recipe! I love that you can use what you have and spice it up different ways! So delicious!!
I made this with Leinenkugel’s Sunset Wheat and added some Italian seasoning and sharp cheddar cheese. I also sprinkled some kosher salt on top before baking. Yum!
I used the Honey Weiss for my sister. She loved it! I also use Magnolia’s Southern Pecan Ale. It gives the bread a nutty flavor.
Why don’t you make your recipes printable?
Unless I learn differently I will not visit this site again!
Ummmm…Ev Ivy…on normal computers, you can copy a recipe and paste it onto a Word or Pages document and print that. But with an attitude like yours, I wouldn’t want you to visit this site again! (I am not affiliated with this blog, but I wish I was so I could’ve deleted her post!)
You know you can copy and paste it into a document program or even into an email draft and then print it…
You can always highlight the recipe and then copy and paste into word. It takes less than a minute. That’s what I usually do when I can’t print a recipe :)
Alternatively, right clicking the page and saving it as an html file works.
You will be able to print these out by using your tool section located in the upper right hand corner of your computer, and you can use your own print from the computer.