4 hours ago, ElainaA said:I might have to start buying beer. For those who make this - does the type of beer matter? Since neither my husband or I drink beer the remainder just goes down the sink so I would rather but something cheap. I'm afraid that what I poured down the sink today was not at all cheap.) Now if the recipe asked for wine there would be no problem.....
Gorgeous breads, Elaina!
There is a section in my humble low-end grocery chain store that sells either mixed bottles of more premium beers that you select and load into convenient six-pack cartons in a rack near the beers, or you can buy a single bottle. I never noticed it for years, and if you don't buy beer, you may have one in your own grocery that you've not noticed before.
Someone with more beer and yeast bread experience needs to answer your question about whether the type of beer matters. I know when I do drink beer that some of the hoppier, more bitter ones are to my liking, and I can imagine them giving a lot of flavor to a bread, but that's a matter of personal taste.
I can say this from my experience with King Arthur's Quick Beer Crust Pizza Dough: I just use one of the cheap beers from my husband's ever-present stash. It still makes a great pizza crust. It calls for the beer at room temp, and that makes sense unless you're trying to retard the yeast, so I always take the beer out of the fridge the night before I make the dough.
