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BamaRooster

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I know there are several threads about beer but I wanted to share this one with everyone. We tried it this weekend and the bread came out with an amazing texture and deep beer flavor, with a slight hop bite at the end.

I started by pouring all of the left over stuff in the bottom of my fermenter into a large glass jar and placed it in the fridge over night. The next morning I poured all the liquid off the top and made a starter.

1/2 cup whole wheat flour
1 tsp sugar
1 cup water
all of the troob (the left over stuff from the ferment-er)

and let that sit over night. Make sure and put this in a half gallon container because it is going to work it's A%$ off. I placed it in a quart mason jar and within 2 hours it was trying to blow the lid off. You can let this sit for days if you would like and then you have a sour dough starter, but I used mine the next day. Here is the rest of the receipe:

1 cup of the starter
3.5 cups bread flour
1 TBS salt
1 TBS honey or corn syrup
1.5 cups water

mix together and cover with clear wrap and let sit out over night. It should more than triple in size and this where the magic happens. Here is what mine looked like. You will have more starter left over for more bread, you can place in the fridge for later use or leave it out to get a sourdough flavor. I just made another batch cuz I have been brewing a batch every week and have plenty of troob in the supply line.

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You then turn out the dough and knead it adding flour until it is not sticky. I actually used my wife's kitchen-aide mixer with a dough hook and let it rip for about 10 minutes slowly adding probably a 1/2 cup of flour. If your kneading by hand it is gonna take some muscles. Place the loaf on a baking sheet that has been covered with corn meal cover with a towel and let it rise a second time until it is double to triple the original size. Bake for 40 minutes on 450 degrees. When I uncovered my bread after the all night rise, there was a distinct beer and alcohol smell that overwhelmed the kitchen.

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Hope somebody tries it, if so let me know what you think.
 
Sounds amazing! I might try this with the tribune from my pumpkin porter. Maybe I'll get a pumpkin beer bread!
 
Just curious as to how much trub you started with. You mentioned you put the starter to sit over night in a quarter mason jar initially. Well I just harvested all the trub from my last batch and it was a full quart mason jar full. I haven't let it sit over night in the fridge yet so maybe I'm also wondering how much liquid I will be taking out of this trub.
 
I think he was saying to put the trub (as much as possible probably) into a large glass, an then to let it sit overnight and separate most of the liquid out. He then made a starter from the separated yeast. That's how I read it anyway.
 
Going to have to give this a shot with the trub from the English brown ale I have fermenting. Wish I had captured the trub (or at least some of it) from the maple brown ale that I kegged a couple of weeks ago.
 
Got two flavors of starter going right now. Pumpkin porter trub and IPA trub. Got the supplies today. Gonna do some baking tomorrow morning and I'll report back with my results and maybe some pictures.
 
Let us know how the IPA based batch comes out. I'll be kegging up my English IPA on Wednesday, which has 1oz each of EKG and Fuggles whole hops in it. I'm thinking that it could be really good as a bread too. :D
 
Now to figure out what to use the trub from a weizenbock for. I wonder if the banana flavor will come through into bread.
 
What a great idea, will have to try this. I bet one from a Barleywine would be interesting.
 
I think he was saying to put the trub (as much as possible probably) into a large glass, an then to let it sit overnight and separate most of the liquid out. He then made a starter from the separated yeast. That's how I read it anyway.

Might seem like a stupid question but I'm not sure what to make the starter from-the trub or the liquid that gets separated?
 
Just a note, 10 min in the mixer is probably overworking the dough.

I've used WLP 300 trub in a batch of bread, and the banana definitely came through, not in an especially pleasant way lol.
 
Just curious as to how much trub you started with. You mentioned you put the starter to sit over night in a quarter mason jar initially. Well I just harvested all the trub from my last batch and it was a full quart mason jar full. I haven't let it sit over night in the fridge yet so maybe I'm also wondering how much liquid I will be taking out of this trub.

Mine was also a full Mason jar, I let it set in the fridge and all the solids settled to the bottom, I poured of the liquid that was on the top and ended up with maybe closer to a third of a quart of solids.
 
Just a note, 10 min in the mixer is probably overworking the dough.

I've used WLP 300 trub in a batch of bread, and the banana definitely came through, not in an especially pleasant way lol.

I found that anything less than 10 minutes of kneading produces a much denser loaf, but hey what ever work s for you is cool by me. I like my bread more in the european style of a hard chew crust and nice big air pockets inside.
 
Anyone ever try making bread using whole grain malt as flour? One time I made a beer bread that replaced the water with beer as usual but I added a touch of caramel and roasted malts finely ground to the dough. It gave it a nice slightly roasty sweetness.
 
Anyone ever try making bread using whole grain malt as flour? One time I made a beer bread that replaced the water with beer as usual but I added a touch of caramel and roasted malts finely ground to the dough. It gave it a nice slightly roasty sweetness.


This is a great idea, I wonder what would happen if you threw a little DME in for good measure? :mug:
 
This is a great idea, I wonder what would happen if you threw a little DME in for good measure? :mug:

Or some reserved grain from the mash tun from that batch. I could do that since I froze some of the post-mash grain from my last brew. Just a matter of saving some of the trub from the fermenter and use it all to make some bread.
 
It makes sense to do this for some spent grain bread. But I won't be making any spent grain bread unless it's from a beer with mostly wheat or rye. I just don't like all of the husks in my bread.
 
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