I need Yeast advice for Stuck Barleywine

[BeaverBarber]

Sounds interesting. The two definitely seem related. How do you make beer bread?

Replace some or all of the water with beer. For an added bonus, whip up a batch of malt butter to spread on top.

Depends on the bread. That won't work in a lot of artisan recipes. This recipe was derived & bastardized from something I found ages ago. It makes a dough that doesn't look like it'll bake at all & the time/temp seemed way off... but it cranks out some delicious bread. Especially when you use an overly sweet beer. If you have a 5 gallon batch that underattenuates, bottle it up & wait for Halloween. The neighbors/family will clear it out in bread-form before the Christmas lights come down - and all that baking keeps the furnace off & the house smelling wonderful. You can holiday it up with a pinch of your favorite holiday spice blend. Malt butter would go with this really well. So far, my favorite was a super malty Irish Red that froze up around 1.020 or so.

3c flour
4.5t baking powder
1.5t salt
1/3c packed brown sugar
12oz beer

Preheat oven to 370 (I live in the mountains, drop temp for lower altitude. ~350 @ sealevel).
Completely mix dry ingredients in large bowl. Slowly add beer to make thick, sticky dough.
Scrape into oiled 9x5 bread pan (this dough will not shape like traditional bread dough)
Bake for 50-60 min.

Man, that sounds like a great idea. I'll definitely be whipping up some of that in the Fall. Thanks.

[spiderwrangler]

Depends on the bread. That won't work in a lot of artisan recipes.

It does for mine, generally. Flour, salt, yeast and water are the base of my artisan loaves. Other flours, grains, nuts, seeds or fruits optional. Let it rock and rise over night and bake in a dutch oven.



This one does not have beer in it.

[BeaverBarber]

...and bake in a dutch oven.

I didn't know you could really cook with one of those.

[spiderwrangler]

...and bake in a dutch oven.

I didn't know you could really cook with one of those.

All kinds of stuff. It's great. Mine is the fancy type, not the hunk of cast iron you bury in a fire type.

[mike____]

+1 to spiderwranglers dutch oven bread baking (and cooking in them in general).
It works great.

[Ozwald]

...and bake in a dutch oven.

I didn't know you could really cook with one of those.

All kinds of stuff. It's great. Mine is the fancy type, not the hunk of cast iron you bury in a fire type.

I think it was being assumed that it was the stick your wife's head under the covers type of dutch oven. Those will bury you in fire as well though.

[BrewerBC]

Just an update.
Made a 1 Liter starter(1.035) with WLP007, and pitched it at high krausen.
Had the beer warmed up to 70 deg.
one day later i have some good activity going on in the fermenter

Oh ya...If this dosen't work I will definetly try out the beer bread recipe. Thanks OZ

[BeaverBarber]

Please keep us updated. I'd love to know how much more fermentation you get out of this batch. Right now I'm praying for beer and expecting bread. But seriously, if it does come way down, it would be interesting to know how you did it because that's unusual.