Beer Bread Recipe with Semolina, Rosemary and Cheese

Though is sounds odd, beer bread combines the flavor of a yeasted kneaded dough (the yeast coming from the bread) with quick batter bread like Irish Soda Bread. Once baked, you won’t taste the beer. Most beer bread is made with all-purpose flour, but if you go to the extra effort to get some specialty flours, specifically bread flour and semolina flour, you’ll be rewarded with a quick bread that is dinner party worthy. The bread flour gives the loaf of bread a nice dense chew not unlike a hearty homemade white sandwich bread while the semolina gives a slice crunch and helping to brown and crisp the crusty. You can find both flours at most grocery stores but if you can’t, you can use all-purpose in place of the bread four and cornmeal in place of the semolina. It won’t be exactly the same but it’ll still be darn good.