Using beer yeast in bread making.

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Yeah i know mate. If they closed half the shops in this city would be empty. My local used to give me free booze, good people. Obviously i don't buy beer anymore though. :)

My Mrs does the kneading, i do the No Knead. I actually prefer is as its lighter consistency to the stuff she makes.
Do you think the Yeast cake from a Stout is suitable or an IPA? Don't really want hoppy bread.
 
The minds boggles and there's no suitable "Smilie" for what I think!

I sorted that for you.

The mind boggles at the stupidity of some people, the racist attack on the shop is bad enough but the dumb **** wouldn't have even thought there may be people living above it.
 
Yeah i know mate. If they closed half the shops in this city would be empty. My local used to give me free booze, good people. Obviously i don't buy beer anymore though. :)

My Mrs does the kneading, i do the No Knead. I actually prefer is as its lighter consistency to the stuff she makes.
Do you think the Yeast cake from a Stout is suitable or an IPA? Don't really want hoppy bread.

I don't see how the yeast would carry significant flavours from the beer to the bread.

Bear in mind that I scraped the trub off the bottom of the FV after the beer had been syphoned off then:

o fermented it with some sugar,

o removed anything that didn't look like yeast (bits of hops etc),

o divided it into two portions and then watered that down to make the 2 x 300mls that I needed for the bread.

I will definitely put my money where my mouth is on this one as I am currently cold crashing the Wilco Pilsner with Chillies.

When the new MKs arrive (hopefully by Wednesday) I will transfer the Pilsner into the barrels and use some of the yeast from the brew to bake a couple more loaves.

I'm not worried if the bread tastes of chillies if I'm wrong so it's worth the experiment.

I'll keep you posted on progress. :thumb: :thumb:
 
Okay, the MKs arrived today so I syphoned off the Wilco Pilsner with Chillies and rescued some of the trub.

Half of the trub has been put away in the fridge for later and I used the other half to make a Banana Loaf (Morrisons had some almost black bananas at a giveaway price) and a Sun Dried Tomato Loaf (Lidl had some Tunisian dried tomatoes at £1.59 a packet).

I couldn't detect any significant chilli taste in the beer or the trub so I was pretty sure that the finished loaves would be free of any chilli taste ...:thumb:

... and for once I was right! :whistle:
 
I'm interested in usi g my trib as yeast on my next brew but how long would the trub stay good in the fridge?
 
My wife just made a bread machine loaf of Spelt bread wherein I asked her to use an expired packet of Fermentis K-97 yeast in place of bread yeast, and it came out mainstream normal. Nothing unusual or special about it. Just quite good.
 
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