Thank you DuClaw Brewing for sponsoring this post and sending me the DuClaw Mysterium. All opinions and the bread recipe are my own.
Welcome to the January edition of “Cooking with Beer”! Each month DuClaw Brewing sends me a beer and a friend and I create a recipe. It’s a fun time to think outside the box and try a new beer and new food. This month’s beer is “Mysterium”, a Belgian Spiced Ale.
Each month when I get my beer from DuClaw, my friend and I brainstorm ideas for the recipe. This beer sounded a little challenging since it’s spiced with chamomile, cardamom, and grains of paradise. Confession: before I had this beer, I didn’t even know what grains of paradise were. Turns out that they are a seed that you can grind like you would peppercorns. They taste a bit of black pepper and cardamom.
When we tasted the beer, the lovely Belgian yeast flavor combined with the subtle flavors of the spices just screamed “bread.” So bread it was!
All I can say about this bread is “WOW!” In fact, I’m hoarding my last two bottles of the beer, not to drink, but to make two more loaves of bread. I liked it so much, I only gave Beer Geek one slice. Apparently sharing is not my strongest suit. The added grains of paradise give the bread a zing that’s quite unique. If you don’t like a pepper zing (like really strong black pepper, not hot like hot peppers), use extra black pepper and cardamom instead of the grains of paradise.
DuClaw Mysterium Grains of Paradise Bread
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Disclaimer: DuClaw Brewing sent me beer to cook with and compensated me for this post. Recipe, photos, and opinions are my own.
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Ooooh! Yummy! I love beer and carbs – Yes! I love bread so much!
Bread is my favorite food. Love the stuff!
Oh, I love a good quick bread recipe. What are grains of paradise and where do you get them?
They are similar to peppercorns and we found them at My Organic Market.
I do love beer bread!! I bet with all those spices, this would be a good one.
It was a great combination. I’m sure you could find a beer near you that would work with it too.
This looks delicious!
It was!
That bread looks amazing! I pinned this and now as soon as I find this beer I’m going to try it. We are huge pepper lovers in our house!
I think you could make it with any Belgian style ale and add in extra spices and it would still be good.
I had not heard of grains of paradise either but sounds like I need to check it out. Bet that bread smells amazing
It did. And I ate it with nothing on it – that’s how good it was.
The bread looks delicious! I’ve never cooked with beer! Thanks for sharing!
It was tasty! I’ve got lots of easy cooking with beer recipes on the blog.
I’m a breadaholic…so this looks awesome! I have seen lots of beer breads but have never tried to make any of them. Thanks for the great recipe!
Yeah, I’m totally addicted to bread. This was really good and quite easy to make.
I have never heard of grains of paradise… always love to see what you are cooking up with your new beer!
I hadn’t either. They really did add a unique taste though.
Well, I know who would love this — my hubby! He enjoys craft beer, and he’s a baker! 😀
Ooh, have him make it and let me know what he thinks!
This looks good! The only time I’ve cooked with beer is with Lobster!
You should try out some of my other cooking with beer recipes. Most of them are pretty simple and tasty.
What an interesting way to incorporate DuClaw! I’ve never tried that!
It was really good!
That sounds like a really nice twist on the classic beer bread. I don’t think I’ve seen that brand around here.
This looks delicious and the way you described it, I wish I had a slice right now! I’ve never cooked with beer, I never would have thought of using it in a bread!
Beer and carbs – sounds like a great combo to me!
Yay! I am not a beer drinker but this sounds like something everyone would like! YUM!
This beer sounds great! i love cardamom & the chamomile sounds very interesting in a beer, Bread recipe looks fantastic too…Pinned!