Serve this richly flavoured bread with a ploughman’s lunch of chutney ... For the topping, mix the ale with the rye flour and a pinch of sugar to form a thick batter. Tip the dough out onto ...

Look for a grey colour and close texture to the crumb; usually the darker the grey the more rye flour the bread contains. The colour is difficult to reproduce with additives, so dough with a low ...

Some bakers also add malt or molasses to amplify the flavor ... Pumpernickel is a type of rye bread. Bread labeled simply as “rye bread” is made from either light or dark rye flour.

Old Potrero from Hotaling, originally Anchor Distilling, is a rye whiskey that I first learned about through a local bartender over a decade ago but truly fell in love with years later. One of my ...