Beer and Mustard Bread

My son has wanted to be a chef since he was four years old.  Whether he continues with that career choice remains to be seen, but he does like to be given opportunities to get in the kitchen as often as possible.  He doesn't err towards baking sweet things like I do, but savoury and side dishes.  Today he wanted to make bread.  An ordinary white loaf didn't appeal.  He wanted to make a cheese and onion loaf, but our meagre amount of cheese in the fridge soon put an end to that.

Undeterred, he found a recipe for beer and mustard bread and after getting permission from his father to raid his stock of Boddingtons, he set about making his own loaf.  

His first loaf was quite intricately designed, he says, to be a 'sharing' loaf.  He served it on a wooden bread board with butter on the side with our main meal today and every single bit of it has gone.