experiment , making beer from bread w/o hops

[Arkwright]

Read in an article about how in ancient times bread was made and dryed to store the ingredients to make beer. The bead was soaked in water with bitter herbs . A cloth would be placed over it to keep out dust but let in wild yeast.

Heres what iv done. Toasted 2 slices of bread very dark and kept 2 white.

Add bread to 1 gal container
1 cup sugar
1 cup strong black coffee (add bitterness)
1 packet yeast ( im not trying this with wild yeast)
Sealed with airlock

Any idea if this will be drinkable? Lol

 

[geezerpk]

http://sites.google.com/site/yankeeharp/breadbeer

Never tried this, but it does sound fun for very little investment of time or money. Who knows?

 

[unionrdr]

I read where the early Germans (about the time of the Roman invasions) used half baked barley loaves broken up in a kettle of boiling water with bitter herbs,etc. The let wild yeast get to it,then covered it. The invading Romans,upon trying it,called it "pig swallow".