Beer Bread with Cheddar

Whenever I spoke of the beer bread in this recipe collection, the immediate response of any listener was always, “Does it have cheese in it?” So for all those lovers of beer and cheese, here it is, and it is rich—like a pound cake. Cheddar cheese, a cheese with lots of tang and often densely colored with annatto, used to be a product of the Midwest dairy states, but quickly became the most popular cheese from the Southwest to New England. Use a young, mild Colby (they are sometimes sold jus