I mixed the flour, oats, sugar, baking soda, baking powder and salt in a large bowl. In another bowl, I whisked together the stout beer, buttermilk, ¼ cup melted butter and 3 tablespoons molasses.

Bread and beer have had a long-standing, compatible relationship for millenia. In fact, historians have been debating which came first for decades. It's a culinary chicken-and-egg question: One wouldn ...