Berry Beer Bread?

Well a few weeks back I was at a dinner party at a friend’s house. He invited me over and mentioned that he was going to be cooking the dinner. He also asked me to bring my glass baking dish…
I rode my bike over early with the dish because I knew he would have to use it to cook the dinner. Well, I looked at the recipe, discussed it with him a bit (stuffed peppers) and realized that I would be cooking the dinner. He had asked for a bit of “help” with dinner, but in fact he had every intention of using his dinner party to socialize with his guests. This was no surprise to me and I happily made dinner. It turned out really good and I made two separate dishes: one vegetarian, one with beef (this friend and I were vegetarian at the time, for Lent). As we all sat around and chatted, there was an abundance of odd beer around. Immediately I noticed the berry beer and snagged a couple to take home (I cooked dinner! I deserve to snag a few beers from his house, right?). I remembered a post I made months ago about beer bread and wondering if a berry beer would leave the bread with a berry taste. So, I finally have gotten around to testing my wondering with those beers which were in my fridge since then.

The verdict? I’m actually not exactly sure! That’s not helpful, I know, but the bread tastes different…it has a hint of a taste of a different beer being used, but I’m not sure if I could pin-point it as berry. But, the bread is good! And it is a little sweeter, and using honey on the bread really pronounces the flavor.

Ok, I have a question for you. I eat a lot of animal crackers. I got to the bottom of the bag today, and looked in the bottom, and was shocked by the animal cracker carnage! Usually at the bottom of a bag of chips you can find a bunch of crunched up pieces…well at the bottom of an animal cracker bag is a bunch of animal legs! The parts that break off the animal crackers are legs! Does this bother anybody else?! (It’s pretty funny, but very disturbing!)