Obviously joking about the water. But I wanted to try and make a bread using beer instead of water to see how it would turn out.
Basically just used a can of non alcoholic beer instead of water. Wasnt a very accurate recipe, I used a can of beer, hydration was about 65-70%, about 2% salt and some yeast. Left it over night in the fridge and it came out with a very light texture and a light crispy crust.
Very different from my recent sourdough breads and I'm definitely making more of these. Such a great result for very little effort
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Oh, that looks great! I've made bread using non-alcoholic beer before. I need to do that again..
I see you're from Norway too so, Clausthaler Fatøl was the one I used for this. Gonna experiment with some other types.
Seen some pretty awesome guiness breads too.
That looks awesome. What kind of yeast did you use, powder or normal?
Powered yeast (Caputo Dry/Pizza Yeast), I'm guessing about a tbsp. I just eyeballed everything in this recipe so no real clue. If I was to do it again, I probably would've added a little honey to help the yeast along but I always forget to do that.
Looks great as it is.
Honey just adds a a tiny bit of easily digestible sugars for the bacteria to swallow early on. If I had that I would've had more of a yeast effect in the first hour, which would've resulted in more taste developing overnight.
Wouldn't have made a huge difference but, would've made a slight one.
Can it be done with regular beer? I mean, would alcohol ruin yeast?
It could do so, and what I also realized after I made this one is that I probably should've gotten rid of the CO2 as well. People say a flat beer is best for cooking.
So what you could do is give the beer a quick boil for instance, or at least some heat to get rid of CO2 and alcohol.
I would recommend looking at some "Guinness Breads" they explain how to make beers with Guinness which contains alcohol so you can take it from there.
Tbh, I didn't think much of it, I didn't remove CO2 and just used a cheap beer which is non alcoholic sin alcohol is heavily taxed in Norway.
Ok, thanks a lot. I will give it a try. Sounds really good.
Baker's yeast should tolarate alc. content up to 10%.
So, no Belgian beer :-)
How can you run out of water - in Norway?!? I guess you're having mineral water quality out of every tap?
Our municipality does actually win regular awards for water quality...
But as I said in initial post, running out of water was a joke.
Oh, sorry, I missed that.
The bread looks fantastic!
Yeah I'm super happy with it, going to try using beer in pizza dough next.
In German das Beer = das Wasser.
Wow – that looks like it came straight from a Parisian bakery...
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You ran out of water? In Norway?