The bottle contains Lines' recipe for Alaska Fire Bread, which includes dehydrated jalapeno peppers.

The can Lines used last Tuesday was a room-temperature Coors, although he said other beers would do the trick.

"The only thing that doesn't work is dark beer," he said. "It makes it look like fudge."

Lines first thought of using beer to bake bread when trying to get all the ingredients into a 22-ounce bottle, which he now sells wholesale to stores on the lower Kenai Peninsula and elsewhere. The only thing he couldn't figure out was how to get yeast, which either needs to be sealed or refrigerated, in the bottle.

"It's not a dry ingredient," Lines remembered as he combined the beer and bread mix in a bread pan. "Well, what else has yeast in it? Beer!"

Working in his Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation-approved kitchen on the Sterling Highway, Lines said the thought to sell his bread mix in beer bottles came before his idea to add the yeast in beer form.

"The alcohol cooks off at 172 degrees, so the alcohol's long gone by the time the bread bakes," he said.

Lines, a resident of Happy Valley, began making bread four years ago. He is secretive about releasing the exact recipe, although the list of ingredients is included on the packaging.

"So many people said, 'You ought to be selling this stuff,'" he said.

Lines remodeled the spare room behind his girlfriend's hair salon. He brought in two ovens, sinks and counter space and turned it into a kitchen that earned the approval of DEC.

Lines was a carpet installer for 30 years until he quit more than a year ago. He has since trademarked his bread, and last month began packaging it with instructions and selling it wholesale.

The bread can be found in 15 stores on the lower Kenai Peninsula including Black Water Bend Espresso, the Fish Connection, Homer Brewery and the Anchor River Inn. Anyone interested in getting the bread can contact Lines at 235-8901.

The bread has started catching on as a souvenir item, and Lines is looking for an assistant to help him bottle his new product.

"It's a unique loaf of bread," he said.

It comes in two different levels of heat — medium and hot.