beer Brewers Bread

RocketMan · Nov 14, 2012

I haven't made the move to All Grain Brewing yet but I have been doing partial mashes and extract with Speciality Grains. Monday I brewed my Christmas Beer for this year and had a bit of Crystal 40L and some Chocolate Malt that I had used. In the past I always just pitched the used grains into the trash or spread them around the garden. Now I had seen several articles where brewers were using their spent grains to make bread and decided to give it a shot and just see what all the hoopla was about. Well, I'll tell ya what it's about, it's about some of the best tasting breads made with some of the freshest grains. Here's some shots and below is the recipe I used.

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Brewers Bread

3 cups of spent grains right out of the mash / steep
1 1/4 Cups Warm Water
1/4 Cup Sugar
4 to 5 Cups of Flour
1 tsp Salt
1 Egg
1/4 Cup Milk
2 Packet's Dry Yeast or 5 tsp bulk Active Dry Yeast

Mix the yeast, water and sugar in a bowl and allow teh yeast to activate for about 30 minutes.

Add the Yeast starter, salt, egg, spent grains, and milk in a stand mixer and slowly add flour. The original recipe calls for white flour. I used 2 cups King Arthur Whole Wheat and 3 Cups King Arthur Bread Flour.

Kneed till the dough is smooth and silky

Place into a oiled bowl and coat the dough. cover with a damp towel and place in a warm spot for 40 minutes or till the dough has doubled. Punch down the dough and allow it to rise again.

Form the dough into 2 loaves and set aside to proof then into a 375 degree F oven for 35 minutes.

Allow to cool and then enjoy with some butter and a Mug of the beer you brewed with them.

Cheers Y'all
RM

queequeg152 · Nov 14, 2012

neat.
but how do i make brewers cup cakes

birdfather · Nov 14, 2012

dude. that is awesome. just another reason why brewing beer kicks so much ass.

RocketMan · Nov 14, 2012

queequeg152 said:
neat.
but how do i make brewers cup cakes

making the cupcake is the easy part. It's making the Barley Wine icing that's the hard part

HigherThisHeat · Nov 30, 2012

That is pretty frickin cool. How does that malted barley bread taste anyway?

RocketMan · Nov 30, 2012

Didn't that Brewers Best kit come with some speciality grains? You should try it. It kind of does the same to the bread as it does to the beer. I used Crystal 40L and Chocolate Malt so it gave the bread some Carmel and Chocolate notes and but what it did to the smell of the bread was awesome. We chowed down on a whole loaf right out of the oven. It also adds a chewyness to the texture of the bread and makes it kind of a heaver bread, you know you eaten something.

HigherThisHeat · Nov 30, 2012

Yeah I have only used extract with specialty grains. I think I wanna be makin some brewers bread next time.

queequeg152 · Nov 30, 2012

i actually did this with some left over grain from an india brown ale extract kit.
it was my first time baking bread ever. i forgot to add the salt tho and it tasted kinda disappointing. was kinda cool tho... makeing the starter... then adding a bunch of flour and grain to it and watching it rise to like 3x its size in like 2 hours. it split in a spiral pattern tho, im thinking i needed to slice it length ways so it could expand width wise.

PepTalk · Dec 2, 2012

Sweet, been wanting to try this for a while. I usually give my spent grain to the chickens but have a new interest, sourdough breads. I may incorporate in to a future recipe.
Reuse and recycle is my motto!