Whole Wheat Beer Bread

Ingredients: 
  • 11/2 cups Wild Hive wholegrain Hard Red Spring Wheat flour
  • 1/2 cup Wild Hive organic cornmeal
  • 1 cup Wild Hive Soft White Winter Wheat pastry flour
  • 2 to 4 tbsp. brown sugar (depending on your sweetness preference)
  • 12 oz. good, warm beer (stouts, and dark beers give a deeper flavor, and ales, lagers, and paler beers provide a lighter, fluffier, bread)
  • 1 cake yeast, dissolved in warm water

    Whisk together flours, corn meal, and sugar. Add warm beer and mix well. Add dissolved yeast and water mixture. Mix until incorporated (but do not overmix) and let rise in warm area (covered with a clean dish towel)  in
oiled bowl until doubled in size.
    Turn dough out onto floured surface and knead (addind a bit mor flour if necessary) until an elastic dough has been formed. Place in oiled loaf pan and let rise again, about 1 hour.
    Bake in 350 degree F oven about 40 to 50 minutes. 

 

Serving: 
1 loaf