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! ♡
Honey Beer Bread Recipe | 1-Minute Video
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!
You’re a genuis !! Love it
Do you think this would work in a bread machine?
Recipe looks like it is baked in a bread/loaf pan but the directions call for a 9 x 13 pan. Please clarify for me. Thanks. Look great and quick to make a little extra special to a meal.
Oh yikes — major typo! Thank you so much for catching that. It should be a 9×5-inch bread/loaf pan. Thank you! :)
Our family is obsessed with this recipe!
Thanks for creating the honey version for beer bread! It’s delicious. I modified this to make it a little more nutritious by blending a little home made oat flour and chia seeds into the dough. If you like them both, you will find that the bread tastes even yummier! Could you post nutritional information for the basic ingredients in your recipe… from calories to carbs to fiber. Thanks again for the honey variety of everyone’s favorite beer bread, Ali!
Can you use self rising flour?
I’m making it with self-rising right now… I’ll let you know how it turns out. I suspect I shouldn’t have used self-rising with all the baking powder, but we’ll see!
I used self rising, came out great.
I was incredibly excited about trying this recipe. Then I made it, and it was not what I expected. I followed the recipe, I used an ale for my beer, and my bread did not bake all the way, even after being in the oven for over an hour. It looks just the the pictures posted here, but eating raw bread dough was not enjoyable. I’ll try again using a different type of beer and see if my results are better.
If it to dry do I add more beer normally q can is 12oz
Thanks for a bright spot in a strange timeframe for our country. Delicious ?
Love this recipe. I have used it several times and each time tweak it a bit. This last time I sifted the flour and used 3 cups of the sifted; it produced a lighter loaf. What is your opinion about sifting/not sifting? Also is butter in the recipe unsalted/salted or doesn’t matter? I forgot to put in the salt this time (at home a little addled during the coronavirus situation) so result was a little bland but sprinkling a tiny bit of salt on top with butter solved the problem. Thanks for a great recipe!
I have been a fan of beer bread for a while, and this one is the best one I’ve tried. What I think sets it apart is the honey, because it add a moisture to what could be an otherwise crumbly bread. The fact that it’s easy to slice and toast is testament to it’s great texture. I love to bake, and often make regular yeast bread, but this bread is great if you are in a hurry or short on ingredients, or if your yeast has up and died!