Are you looking for a delicious and quick beer and bread recipe? Great: you are in the right place! Let’s cook a delicious, quick and easy bread, made with Italian Bock beer and Italian honey.

Warm hints of caramel and biscuit. Soft texture, intense flavor, rich honey aftertaste.

No, this is not another boring beer tasting. This post is a recipe of delicious homemade bread, made with beer.

If you like the sweet taste of honey, a pretty strong malty, nutty, biscuit taste, you will fell in love with a soft and warm slice of this Bock beer and honey bread.

Ready? Let’s bake!

Total time: about 4 hours

Ingredients: (for a 750 gr/ 27 oz bun)

Bock beer- 330 ml/ 12 oz
Warm water- 280 ml/ 10 oz
Extra virgin olive oil- 30 gr/ 1 oz
Honey- 15 gr/ 0,5 oz (if you prefer a softer honey aroma, rearrange: half honey, and half sugar). I choose chestnut honey of a local beekeeper. #supportlocal!
Salt- 15 gr/ 0,5 oz
0 Wheat flour- 300 gr/ 10,5 oz
Wholegrain flour- 180 gr/ 6,30 oz
Yeast- 20 gr/ 0,7 oz
Poppy seeds, soft toasted sesame seeds (if you want, you can add other types of healthy seeds!)- 30 gr/ 1 oz

Steps:

Boil the Bock beer for about 5 minutes (the alcohol will evaporate).
In a big bowl add the warm water to the warm beer.
Add the ingredients exactly as in the order you read above, in the Ingredients list (it’s pretty easy, nah?)
Knead.
The dough must then be left to rise in the bowl for a minimum of one hour. Cover the bowl with a clean cotton mop and place it in a warm place.
Knead the dough.
Put the dough in an oven pan and cover it with the mop.
Let it leave for about 1 hour (you can repeat leaving and kneading for 5 times if you want a more digestible, soft bun. It’s better for 4 hours to be sure to have a soft consistency and a good palatability).
Preheat the oven at 220°C.
Baked to 220°C for 20 minutes, then reduces to 200°C for 30/40 minutes. As always, take a look at the bun! Different ovens work differently, so watch the bread crust colour: when you see a golden-brown crust, the Bock beer & honey bread is ready!
Enjoy!

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The Italian Craft Beer- Bock Beer & Honey Bread

The Italian Craft Beer- Bock Beer & Honey Bread

#OneandOnly : David Bowie