Cooler weather means apples, pumpkin (beer), and football. To celebrate the first cold front of the year – high of only 91! – we picked up our first bottles of pumpkin ale, earmarking one of the bottles for pumpkin bread.
Pumpkin beer bread.
Dogfish Head Punkin Ale is one of the better pumpkins I’ve had. The Punkin Ale alone has good spice levels but I added just a bit more of the complimenting “pumpkin pie” spices to enhance the pumpkin flavor in the bread.
This bread is all fall. It’s great eaten warm, with a pat of butter. Or honey cinnamon butter. Or butter and a drizzle of honey. Or… you get the picture.
Pumpkin Ale Beer Bread
Beer bread gets a fall makeover with your favorite pumpkin ale.
Ingredients
- 12 oz pumpkin beer
- 3 cups flour
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1 Tbsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 stick butter, melted and divided
- 3/4 cup canned pumpkin
- 1 Tbsp molasses
- 1/4 tsp cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp nutmeg
- 1/8 tsp ginger
- 1/8 tsp cloves
- 1/8 tsp allspice
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 and lightly grease a 9x5-inch loaf pan.
- Pour the pumpkin beer into a sauce pan and whisk vigorously for 1-2 minutes to flatten the beer.
- Heat over medium until boiling, whisking occasionally to help keep the foaming down.
- Reduce by half, to 3/4 cup (about 15 minutes) and set aside to cool slightly.
- In a large mixing bowl, whisk together the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt; set aside.
- In a smaller bowl, whisk together the beer, 2 Tbsp melted butter, canned pumpkin, molasses, and ground spices.
- Add the pumpkin mixture to the dry ingredients, mixing with a spoon until no dry ingredients are left (if your canned pumpkin is very thick, you might need to add 2-4 Tbsp milk to help get things mixed together).
- Pour half of the remaining melted butter into the baking dish.
- Spoon the batter into the baking dish and drizzle the remaining melted butter over top.
- Bake 45-55 minutes, until the top is golden brown and a knife inserted into the center comes out clean.
- Leftovers should be tightly wrapped in saran, best served warm.
Notes
Yields: 1 loaf, ~12 slices
Estimated time: 1 hour 30 minutes