Irish Brown Bread Recipe with Guinness & Oats | Craft Beering

The most popular Irish brown bread recipe with Guinness stout, oats and buttermilk.Go straight to the Recipe Card orRead on for relevant tips and step-by-step video + pictures (1 min)About This Irish Brown Bread RecipeIrish Brown bread (aka wheaten bread in the North of Ireland) emerged as a way to deal with the country’s softer wheat and is essentially a form of Irish soda bread but made with stone ground whole wheat flour which is what gives it a dark, rustic color.The reference to soft has to do with the fact that Irish grown wheat contains significantly less gluten protein (about 8%) and yeast does not work well to raise it, as opposed to hard wheat such as North American varieties used for all purpose flour which have 12% or more gluten.While soda bread has a slightly sweet taste, with a milder flavor due to the white flour it is baked with, brown bread is on the savory side, with a deep nutty flavor, owing to its use of whole grain wheat flour, oats and black treacle (aka molasse...