Homemade Beer Bread

Fall is just around the corner...personally, I'm really sad to see summer go, but on the bright side, my favorite kind of beer is now available (yum, Oktoberfest....so delicious). In the spirit of good fall beers and continuing with my homemade series, I tried out this quick and easy recipe for beer bread. This is a great recipe to accompany with some warm fall soups.

Ingredients
3 cups flour (sifted)
3 teaspoons baking powder (omit if using Self-Rising flour)
1 teaspoon salt (omit if using Self-Rising flour)
1/4 cup sugar
1 can of beer (12 oz)
1/2 cup melted butter (you can use 1/4 cup if you prefer)

Directions
1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees
2. Mix dry ingredients and beer together. If you don't have a sifter for the flour, don't just pack it into the measuring cup (otherwise you're get really hard bread). Instead, spoon the flour into the measuring cup, so that the flour is less compacted.

3. Mix half of the melted butter into the dough.
4. Pour dough into a greased loaf pan. Then pour the rest of the butter over the top of the dough.

5. Bake 1 hour (I baked mine for 40 minutes since I used 2 small loaf pans). I recommend placing a sheet pan on the shelf below your loaf pan because some of the butter will probably spill over the edge.
6. After baking, immediately remove from pan and cool for at least 15 minutes.

Enjoy the hearty bread with a light beer taste :)

Credit for this recipe goes to Food.com