Easy 5 Ingredient Beer Bread

This beer bread is so easy to make— no rising and kneading— because there is no yeast! Just mix these five ingredients and bake! It had never been easier to make delicious homemade bread.

Growing up, I remember and making homemade yeast bread and having to kneed it, let it rise for an hour, kneed it some more, let it rise for another hour… then finally getting to bake it. It was a terribly long process, although, one that was worth it! Because that warm, homemade bread with butter and homemade jam (click here for delicious homemade strawberry jam and peach jam recipes) is just so good!

Now, it is so easy to make homemade bread, with no kneading or rising—just mix and bake!

Beer Bread Ingredients

• 3 cups flour
• ½ cup sugar
• ¼ cup melted butter
• 2 tsp. baking powder (you will no need this if using self-rising flour)
• 1 tsp. salt
• 1 bottle/can beer

Instructions to make Beer Bread

• Mix all ingredients together.
• Bake at 350 degrees for 45-50 minutes.

I actually found this to be a useful recipe a few months ago. As you will remember, when knowledge of the pandemic became more widespread and many of us across the country were on lockdowns (by state or local authorities), it was actually pretty hard to find many of the basics at the grocery store… you remember, right? No toilet paper, no meat, no milk… and no bread. Of course, there were many other things missing from the shelves too, but it sort of became essential to figure out a substitute for buying a loaf of bread at the store.

Easy Beer Bread

Yield: 1 loaf

Prep Time: 10 minutes 5 seconds

Cook Time: 30 minutes

Total Time: 40 minutes 5 seconds

No kneed, no rise... quick and easy beer bread!

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Ingredients

• 3 cups flour
• ½ cup sugar
• ¼ cup melted butter
• 2 tsp. baking powder
• 1 tsp. salt
• 1 bottle/can beer

Instructions

1. Mix all ingredients together
2. Bake at 350 degrees for 45-50 minutes.

This bread bakes up nicely. It can be sliced and just eaten as a side dish with a meal, or used to make sandwiches. Although, I would say that it is a bit “heavier” than a loaf of bread that you buy at the store, so you would want to cut the slices pretty thin if using two pieces to make a sandwich.

And you know that goes perfectly with homemade beer bread? A great bowl of soup! You might also want to try my Quick and Easy Broccoli Noodle Cheese Soup

or my Copycat recipe for Panera’s Broccoli Cheese Soup!