Ancient beer

[Zambi]

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240412-the-ancient-sustainable-beer-recipe-made-using-bread

Who's going to brew it?

(I posted before reading, there is actually no recipe, but I do not know how to move a post)

 

[SabreSteve]

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240412-the-ancient-sustainable-beer-recipe-made-using-bread

Who's going to brew it?

(I posted before reading, there is actually no recipe, but I do not know how to move a post)

I imagine you would just kinda mash the scraps of bread?

Could probably experiment with doing something single hop with like US-05 and see how it comes out. The only issue I dose
Foresee for homebrewing is you probably need a boatload of old bread to get enough sugars from it. Maybe you could work out something with a bakery to take the stuff they'd just throw out?

 

[Anon E Moose]

I think in my readings I came across a beer that's still brewed somewhere in north Africa (I think) that they bake bread to make.

To the recipe part though (spoiler 1/3):
https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/circular-examples/brewing-beer-from-surplus-bread

 

[Zambi]

I won't be brewing it.
it will have a big carbon footprint in my case as I will need to bake bread first
I bake sourdough bread and freeze. No left overs
The odd time I buy and don't eat all, I'll dry the sliced and turn into breadcrumbs

 

[Donoroto]

I would imagine that any enzymes the bread might have had were denatured in baking. So no conversion from starch to sugars, nothing much for the yeasties to eat.

Ok for ancient Sumarians, but we have better now.

 

[Sandy Feet]

Maybe a couple of years ago, someone had brought an ancient Egyptian style into a brewery that I frequent. I think he was using figs for some of the sugars, but I didn't find out the rest of the grain bill. I will say the beer was damn good, but he was also using modern yeast.

 

[Ward Chillington]

Yeah.....no.