Bread

[splinky]

you are making me miss bread

[StephanieL]

On 3/29/2024 at 12:56 PM, StephanieL said:

A woman who used to run a brewery with her husband outside of Boston until the pandemic put them out of business is now based in the Bay Area and running classes on how to make bread using brewers' spent grains.  N and I went to a class at Almanac Brewery in Alameda a couple of days ago and had a lot of fun.  I made chocolate-cherry and she made rosemary & sea salt.  You first tour the brewery and learn about the breadmaking process, and then make the dough, which gets its first rise in the car on the way home and at home while you're getting your oven and such set up.  Then you knead the dough, give it its 2nd rise, and bake it in a Dutch oven.  The breads are huge, but they came out quite well.  We took more spent grains home and froze them for later use (they go moldy very quickly, so you have to freeze them right away).

Grainbakers Breadmaking Classes at California Breweries

I finally got around to making the first of the loaves with the frozen spent grain.  It's a little wonky looking, and I think some of our yeast is out of date, but it rose fine and it smells great.  We'll see what it taste like.