Rich Sourdough Beer Loaf

Have you seen my Walnut & Beer Sourdough Bread that I made with leftover beer the other day?

This mini loaf has the same idea. Made with leftover beer, but this time I added eggs and butter to make it super rich. ;D

Ingredients:

Starter 125g

Very strong flour 250g

Egg 2 + Beer =165g

Honey 30g

Butter 30g

Salt 4g

It is like brioche. It's buttery and has slight sweetness. And on top of that, there are depth and body that (I think) come from the beer.

Beautiful crumb!

Toasted is even better!

(I like my toast to be well-done...;D)

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Walnut & Beer Sourdough Bread

I had a half can of beer leftover from the other day, so I decided to use it for my bread instead of water.

I've made Sourdough Beer Bread before with leftover beer, and this one is the same as that but with roasted walnuts. A lot of them... I love breads with nuts, so as I was doing the stretch and fold, I kept adding the walnuts.

See! Every slice has so much walnuts! I love it!

The beer added a good flavour to the loaf and really worked well with the walnuts too. The crust had a good tough texture and the crumb was nice and chewy. 

I don't know much about science but I think the beer did some good job to this loaf!

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Sourdough Beer Bread

I normally use water or milk for making bread, but I tried something a bit different this time,... Beer...

I used leftover opened beer I found in the fridge that was a pale lager. I love a kitchen experiment... and I got a bit excited as I was pouring the beer, I ended up making very high hydration dough, 94%!

I have to admit that this super wet dough was very difficult to handle, and not only that my hand slipped when I was transferring the dough on to the tray (Opps, maybe because I had a bottle of beer or two...!). But anyway, as the bread was in the oven, I could already smell the rich flavour coming from the beer... ;d

The result was... good, very good indeed! The crust was nice and hard, the crumb had good bubbles and moreish flavour. It was so good that we had half the bread for breakfast and the rest for lunch. ;D

I can see myself making this Beer Bread whenever we have leftover beer now. ;)

We made some sandwiches with the Beer Bread too.

Tuna mayo & Cheese.

Yum yum :)