In honor of my pending trip out of country I am posting a favorite recipe of mine… not necessarily because I like to drink a lot or like alcoholic beverages… because I don’t drink (normally), but because my paternal grandmother’s favorite alcoholic beverage was a can of Heineken. I remember the few times I went to the old country and I would see a case of Heineken beer tucked underneath a massive cabinet.

So the last time I went to visit I made a point of baking a loaf of beer bread using a can of Heineken and she ended up sharing the loaf with the family around her.

Originally when I started baking beer bread I did is using the “Tastefully Simple” Beer Bread mix. In addition to the mix you only need:

12 oz. beverage (beer, soda or carbonated juice)
3 Tbsp. butter (optional)

As is my norm when creating / working on recipes, instead of butter I chose to use vegetable oil.

The result was good, but a bit of a cheat… especially since it was a pre-made mix and those are rarely healthy. So eventually I scoured the internet for a recipe that I could bake out of scratch and came across quite a few:
– Food.com
– AllRecipes.com
– FoodNetwork.com
– My Baking Addiction Blog

In the end I decided to try the recipe from My Baking Addiction…
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