Delicious and Easy Guinness Bread Recipe (2024)

FAQs

How to make Guinness taste better? ›

Add some bubbles. If you want to pretend to be upper-class as well as Irish this Paddy's Day, get adding some champagne to the black stuff. This brilliant mix is known as a Black Velvet!

“One bottle of beer equals the kilojoule value of approximately seven slices of bread. Now if you drank a whole six-pack of beers, you would have polished off just over two loaves of bread.”

Whisk up the beer a little to get rid of some of the carbonation. Make your dough but use lukewarm beer instead of water. Follow the same instructions on the bucket to turn your dough into a into Beer Bread dough.

Does the alcohol burn off when you bake Guinness bread? It's a common misconception that all the alcohol in food evaporates or cooks off during the baking or boiling process. In reality, some amount of alcohol can remain in the food, depending on cooking time, temperature, and the amount of alcohol used in the recipe.

Since I want the Guinness's flavor but not the bitterness, a few drops of Blackcurrant Syrup or Crème de Cassis works just fine for me. Girls like to drink it this way because it's sweeter. But guess what, some guys drinking it this way too. Try it for yourself and see what you think.

Ranging from 4.1% to 4.3% ABV (alcohol by volume, if you're wondering), Guinness has a lower alcohol content than many of the other beers and ales at the bar. It also contains around 125 calories, which again is fewer than many other beers are packing in.

Some “split the G”, meaning they drink until the top of the Guinness bisects the letter G on the logo on the side of the glass. Others reckon the right way is to drink until your line is between the top of the G and the bottom of the harp. Either way, approach with caution as each challenge requires a pretty hefty sip.

Guinness is created using four key ingredients – roasted barley, malted barley, hops, yeast and water and doesn't contain caffeine.

It adds nutritional value to baked goods. Mainly protein, calcium, and vitamin B12 which are all necessary for a heathy diet. But we don't only look for the nutritional benefits when using milk in our bread dough. The fat and lactose in milk help with tenderizing the crumb of the bread making it softer and sweeter.

Lighter beers, such as lagers, ales and pilsners, will give your bread a lighter color, and mild taste that just about everyone loves. Darker beers like stouts and porters make a darker-colored loaf and have a stronger beer flavor. Hoppy beers like IPAs will give your bread a more bitter taste.

Why does my homemade bread taste like beer? ›

If your bread has a sour, yeasty flavour and smells of alcohol then you have either used too much yeast.or you may have use stale yeast or creamed fresh yeast with sugar.

Guinness 0.0 boasts the same beautifully smooth taste, perfectly balanced flavour, and unique dark colour of Guinness, just without the alcohol.

The Guinness widget is a tiny, plastic ball inside beer cans. During canning, pressurized nitrogen is added to the brew, which trickles into a hole in the widget. Once opened, the widget's nitrogenated beer squirts into the rest of the beer giving it a velvety texture.

Guinness, vodka, co*ke and coffee liquor make this a fun take on both the traditional Black Russian but also co*ke-based drinks overall and the espresso martinis that are having a moment now. Pour the vodka, coffee liqueur and cola into an ice-filled co*cktail glass. Top it off with Guinness and get ready to celebrate.

Some believe it's all about the classic 45-degree angle, pouring into a glass in one go before leaving to settle. However, others believe the magic lies in the hard pour, also known as “the flip”. Using a clean can, flip the can upside down into the glass lifting out slowly as the liquid rises to meet it.

Temperature - Best Served Cold

The correct temperature keeps the gas inside of the beer at its proper balance. This is important in maintaining the perfect Guinness taste experience. Beer that is too warm will foam due to overexcited CO2. Beer that is too cold won't allow ideal head formation and retention.