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Title: beer bread
Post by: christhebrewer on May 25, 2013, 08:38:10 PM
I decided to try this today with the yeast left from an APA.
About 400g strong white flour
8g salt
About 100g yeast cake from white labs 001 left from a hoppy pale ale
30 or 40 ml of the same beer.
30g sunflower oil.
Mix to a wet dough and kneed in the bowl by lifting and stretching for about 4 mins.
Leave to rise for 5 hours at 20c

To my surprise this worked. It rose well and I made it into small loaves and baked at 250 till nice and brown. The bread is really nice with a rich flavour and definate hops flavour. We ate it with a beef and stout casserole.
I will definately do this again.
Title: Re: beer bread
Post by: Dodge on May 26, 2013, 12:15:09 AM
Sounds great! Your making me hungry now ;D
Title: Re: beer bread
Post by: johnrm on May 27, 2013, 09:06:38 PM
For a simple Spent grain bread,  get one of those Odlums Quick breads and lob in a cup of spent grain.
Title: Re: beer bread
Post by: johnrm on May 27, 2013, 09:07:32 PM
Next we'll be having a Bake'n'Brew expo!
Title: Re: beer bread
Post by: Ciderhead on May 27, 2013, 09:12:10 PM
Quote from: johnrm on May 27, 2013, 09:07:32 PM
Next we'll be having a Bake'n'Brew expo!

You can make dog cookies with spent grain, I say that as I have seen the size of your dog!.
Title: Re: beer bread
Post by: johnrm on May 27, 2013, 09:29:24 PM
Our dog needs to reduce, not increase flatulence...  ???
Title: Re: beer bread
Post by: Eoin on May 28, 2013, 09:24:16 AM
Quote from: Tube on May 27, 2013, 08:58:36 PM
Nice recipe Chris!

I think we need a Food forum?

Yeah go for it.

I've recently started buying fresh yeast in the local Polish shop and have been doing bread with it. The difference to dry yeast is huge, I'd not have believed it had I not tried it myself. the flavour and the crumb is better than with dried yeast, it's also a lot faster than the dried stuff.
Title: Re: beer bread
Post by: christhebrewer on May 28, 2013, 10:52:53 PM
I have been getting fresh yeast from the bakery in superquin for a while now. 60c for 100g of yeast, it's one of the few good things that are not over priced in the world!  I think I love making bread almost as much as I love making beer! And you get the result the same day! God, Ted, I love yeast. Right, I'm off to bed.
Title: Re: beer bread
Post by: AdeFlesk on May 30, 2013, 09:27:39 PM
I am going to join  this bread making club too, also go to the polish shop for the fresh yeast, although I found i needed  to  use 1.5 times  what the recipe calls for as  its trip from Poland { a guess of mine}  would not be yeast friendly .
Good idea on starting a food forum, next project of mine is into making some bacon for rashers using a dry cure and smoking it too.  Along with trying  out making sausages from around the world
Title: Re: beer bread
Post by: delzep on May 30, 2013, 10:21:35 PM
More forums? Theres too many already
Title: Re: beer bread
Post by: Partridge9 on May 30, 2013, 10:48:48 PM
Who is adding the food board forum ??  - -Probably best to running it by a few admin before creating a new forum -
Title: Re: beer bread
Post by: johnrm on May 30, 2013, 11:45:55 PM
Will I take it away again?
Title: Re: beer bread
Post by: Metattron on May 30, 2013, 11:47:24 PM
I would +1 a food forum. I love fresh bread, grow fruit and have grown veg, but none this year. Big +1 on a sub forum for smokers and bbqers. A lot of this fits in with the home brewer ethos, and if it grows, it might be worth looking at a new group.
Title: Re: beer bread
Post by: johnrm on May 30, 2013, 11:52:09 PM
If you build it they will come.

I think lumping too much stuff into 'General' sort of makes it sort-of useless.
Title: Re: beer bread
Post by: delzep on May 30, 2013, 11:53:50 PM
I'd be completely against adding more forums. Too much probably turns people away....and I think theres too much as it is to be honest
Title: Re: beer bread
Post by: Eoin on May 31, 2013, 11:24:28 AM
Quote from: AdeFlesk on May 30, 2013, 09:27:39 PM
I am going to join  this bread making club too, also go to the polish shop for the fresh yeast, although I found i needed  to  use 1.5 times  what the recipe calls for as  its trip from Poland { a guess of mine}  would not be yeast friendly .
Good idea on starting a food forum, next project of mine is into making some bacon for rashers using a dry cure and smoking it too.  Along with trying  out making sausages from around the world

I'm finding that about 1/3 of the 100g pack is good for a loaf. It seems to have held up quite well and goes off like a rocket.
Title: Re: beer bread
Post by: Eoin on May 31, 2013, 11:25:10 AM
Quote from: delzep on May 30, 2013, 11:53:50 PM
I'd be completely against adding more forums. Too much probably turns people away....and I think theres too much as it is to be honest

I think that collapsing the forums could work well, because visually the front page is unruly.