Raglan Road Guinness Dipping Sauce

Raglan Road Guinness Dipping sauce can be found at the Raglan Road located in Downtown Disney. This sauce goes perfectly with Irish soda bread.

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Best Irish Soda Bread Dipping Sauce

One of the best parts of eating at the Raglan Road is enjoying homemade Irish soda bread with their well-known Guinness dipping sauce.

The Guinness dipping sauce is a reduction of Guinness sweetened with sugar. This delicious sauce takes no time at all to prepare.

Guinness Dipping Sauce Ingredients

Here’s a list of what you need for this stout beer dipping sauce:

• Guinness Draught Beer
• Brown sugar
• Extra light olive oil

What Makes Guinness so Full of Flavor

Even if you’re not Irish, you must be familiar with the Irish dry stout called Guinness. Guinness stout is an offshoot of the porter style of beer that was originally made in London in the early 18th century.

Guinness has a very distinctive burnt flavor that comes from the use of roasted unmalted barley. The wonderfully enticing thick creamy head of Guinness results from the beer being mixed with nitrogen when being poured.

How to Make Guinness Dipping Sauce

1. Combine the Guinness and brown sugar in a medium-sized saucepan over low heat.
2. Simmer the mixture for about an hour. It should reduce by half or more. Do not walk away while this is cooking. The mixture will bubble up and you need to stir it from time to time so it does not bubble out of the pan and onto the stove.
3. Let the sauce cool to room temperature. 
4. Stir together equal amounts of Guinness reduction and olive oil.
5. Serve the sauce with Irish Soda Bread.

Reduce the Sauce Carefully

It’s important to reduce the Guinness/sugar mixture carefully. It needs to be simmered on low for about an hour – this will reduce it by at least half.

The more reduction, the more tang you will get. You don’t need to stand over the pot for a whole hour, but you do need to pay attention and give it a stir every now and then.

Get the Raglan Road cookbook to make more recipes from the restaurant.

More Irish Recipes to Make

Here are a couple of Irish stew recipes that also use Guinness and another copycat Raglan Road recipe.

• Irish Bread Pudding
• Instant Pot Irish Stew
• Irish Coddle

Favorite Dipping Sauces

• Campfire Sauce
• Chick Fil A Sauce
• Cocktail Sauce
• Creamy Jalapeno Sauce
• Garlic Butter Sauce
• Raising Cane’s Sauce
• Sweet and Sour Sauce
• Thai Peanut Sauce
• Tiger Sauce
• Yum Yum Sauce

Check out more of my easy dipping sauce recipes and the best copycat restaurant recipes here on CopyKat!

Raglan Road Guinness Dipping Sauce

Raglan Road's Guinness Dipping sauce is legendary. Serve with homemade Irish soda bread. 

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Course: Breads, Sauces

Cuisine: Irish

Keyword: Guinness, Guinness Dipping Sauce, Irish Soda Bread

Prep Time: 10 minutes minutes

Cook Time: 10 minutes minutes

Total Time: 20 minutes minutes

Servings: 12

Calories: 129kcal

Author: Stephanie Manley

Ingredients

Guinness Dipping Sauce

• 1 3/4 cups Guinness Draught Beer
• 1 2/3 cups brown sugar
• 1 cup extra light olive oil

Irish Soda Bread

• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1 teaspoon kosher salt
• 2 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1/4 cup cold unsalted butter cut into small pieces
• 1 1/2 cups buttermilk
• 1 tablespoon milk

Instructions

Guinness Dipping Sauce Directions

• Combine the Guinness and brown sugar in a medium-sized saucepan over low heat.
• Simmer the mixture for approximately an hour. The mixture will reduce by at half if not more. The more this reduces the better, as you will end up with a tangy sauce.
• Do not walk away while this is cooking, it will bubble up while cooking, and you need to stir it from time to time so it does not bubble over the stove.
• Let the sauce cool to room temperature before serving.
• When you are ready to serve the sauce, combine equal amounts of the Guinness reduction and olive oil. Do not use extra virgin olive oil because the flavor will not be right. Use extra light olive oil.
• Serve the sauce with Irish Soda Bread.

Irish Soda Bread Directions

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• In a large bowl, mix together flour, sugar, baking soda, and salt.
• Using a pastry blender, cut the butter into the flour mixture until the butter is well dispersed and you have a crumbly mixture.
• Add buttermilk and stir until just moistened.
• Knead the dough for 1 minute on a floured surface.
• Shape the dough into a ball and place it into a greased 1 1/2 quart casserole dish.
• Use a sharp knife to cut an X across the top.
• Brush the top with milk.
• Bake at 350 degrees for about 45 minutes and tented with foil for the last 15 minutes.
• Remove the bread from the baking dish and place it on a wire rack to cool.

Notes

This is not Raglan Road’s Irish soda bread. This is an Irish soda bread that I like to make. I couldn’t get past the delicious dipping sauce to even begin to focus on their bread!

Nutrition

Calories: 129kcal | Carbohydrates: 31g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 1g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 1g | Sodium: 9mg | Potassium: 41mg | Sugar: 30g | Calcium: 25mg | Iron: 1mg