Beer Bread-No Yeast No Knead Dairy-free Egg-free Quick Bread

I have been on a baking spree baking cakes and cupcakes and the Geek finally rebelled saying that my baking was going to give him diabetes. So I decided to turn to baking bread and have been thumbing thorough some cook books including 'Baking with Julia' and trying to decide between the 'Healthy bread in 5 mins a day' method or the 'No Knead Bread'  by Lahney. But most of these so called simple recipes still seemed to require a bit of commitment of time and tools I didn't have, until I found this easy, almost absurdly simple and too-good-to-be-true recipe for Beer Bread.
Immediately bells began to ring and I ran to George the grocer's little store and asked him for one single bottle of ale- "To make bread" I explained while he looked at me puzzled.


With the world cup quarter finals tomorrow-what could be a better snack for the football obsessed than beer bread? This is one easy and tasty bread that has the flavor of the beer and requires no yeast, no raising, kneading and all that mess.
I added some garlic powder and oregano for some extra yuminess. The crust is crispy and the insides soft and springy as all good bread should be. Still can't get over how easy this is- Just mix, pour, bake!Can all be done in just one dish too


3 cups flour (sifted- make sure to sift else bread will be hard)3 teaspoons baking powder (omit if using Self-Rising Flour)1 teaspoon salt (omit if using Self-Rising Flour)1/4 cup sugar1 (12 ounce) can beer 9 recommend using either stout like Guinness or ale )1/4 cup melted butter or olive oil ( I used oil olive)I also added 1 tsp garlic powder and 1 tsp oregano-optionalMethod
Preheat oven to 375 degrees.Mix dry ingredients and beer.Pour into a greased loaf pan.Pour melted butter/olive oil over mixture.Bake for 1 hour or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Remove from pan and cool for at least 15 minutes. If you don't remove it and keep the bread in the pan the bottom may get soggy.