Home Brew Bread Beer Mark 2

Home brew Bread Beer Second Attempt.

  If you look at previous posts, my first attempt suffered from a stuck mash.   A couple of people pointed me in the direction of Kvass.  Kvass is a Russian/Eastern  European beer made by adding boiling water to bread, letting it soak for a while, wild yeast then ferment it to a 2% beer like drink.   This got me think that if I could extract the starch and breadiness out of the bread separately from the mash, this could solve the stuck mash problem.   I could then use this starchy water as my mash water, add it to the grains, and then let the science do its witch craft and convert the starch to the sugars that the yeast could make into beer.   Remember the Brewer makes wort, yeast makes beer.  

Procedure

• The night before brew day.
• I found some reduced and almost out of date bread in the local shop.
• The night before brew day I toasted the bread while I brought 16l of water to the boil.
• I then added the toasted bread 1445g to the boiled water, turned the heat off and stirred every time I happened to walk past.  
• I used beer smith app to formulate a recipe.  I had already decided to brew a Belgium, and had some Belgium yeast on a stir plate creating a starter.
• I was drinking a Roachford 10 at the time so the recipe I loosely based the recipie on that.  The grains used were also part based on a few grains I had left over from previous brews.  I'm more interested in creating a style rather than a clone.

Brew day.

• The bread had almost broken down to a mush.  
• The water was a creamy, off yellow colour.
• I tested with iodine, and in the most un-surprising  iodine test in history, the test turned black.
• I got as much water out of the bread as I could.  If you had more time and patience than I, you could undoubtedly get more water out of the bread.  I lost about 4 l of water to the bread.  I added 4l of normal water to the bread water.
• The rest of the brew day went as normal.  
• The Og ended up at 1.073 and the target was 1.075.  I've got the bread yield in beer smith set at 60% compared to 79% of Pilsner

I only used the two whole grain loaves	Toast
Toast goes into a brew bag	After a couple of stirs the bread starts to break down
Lift the brew bag out of the starchy/bread water.	Cause of the previous stuck mash??
The most un-surprising iodine test result of all time :)	Using the bread water as mash water
Brew then proceeds as normal	Og not far off target
Bread Beer recipe Mark 2	Bread Beer recipe Mark 2
Market research	Yeast getting ready to create magic

 

24 hours in. Definitely something in there that the yeast is liking.

  r

 

 

 

How to explain the difference in kit, partial mash, and full mashbrewing using a pizza

We home brewers face a problem when trying to explain the different methods of home brewing to our non home brewing friends.   ........"Kit, partial mash, and full mash", you say.  "What's the difference" they say..

The challenge is to get the message across without the recipients eyes glazing over.  If we can achieve this we have a shot at the holy grail of convince them that they should have a go themselves and make a brew.

 I have a plan that seems to work.. "think of a pizza...I say...

A kit beer. You go to the store, buy a frozen pizza, put it in the oven.   You get something that does the job.  It's pizza, it fills the hole, and you get the toppings that the makers thinks you want.

A partial mash. You got to the store, buy your frozen pizza, cheese and tomato it is.  While you are there, you get a little pepperoni, a chilli, and fresh basil. When you get home you have a customised pizza.

Full mash. You start with some to tomatoes, a bag of flour, and some yeast, and anything else you want.   After some work, some practise, some sweat,  you have exactly what you are looking for.  The beer you have been waiting all your life for.....well at least the satisfaction of creating the magic with your own hands...  

Beer kits are like frozen pizza, a little extra money and the quality goes up.  A little extra money and some good beer can be made from a kit.   Some partial mashes can be exceptional, just like a semi-self created  pizza.  

 With a full mash you can use a cooler box and a big pot, or create a micro brewery in the garage.  Just like some people will build a log fired pizza oven in their back garden. The most important thing to remember is make the pizza you want to eat with the equipment you have.  If you live in a one bedroom flat with a small oven, then make the best frozen pizza you can.  If money is no object and your garden is the size of Wembley stadium then build your wood fired pizza oven.  

The Beer Out of Bread Recipe

The Bear Out of Bread Recipe.  The special B was replaced by CaraAroma,  the yeast was a Dry Abbay yeast 11.5 gram packet.  Yeast starter was made the day before.