Spent Grain Bread

Posted: January 24, 2012 | Author: | Filed under: Recipes | Tags: | Leave a comment »

What do you do with the grain used in your home brew? What? You throw it out? You’re doing it wrong. Keep it and make some spent grain bread the next day. It is easy and great tasting. A perfect food compliment to one of your home brews!

We’ve tried it once at home and we got some great tasting bread. Has a bit of a nice mellowed bitter taste from the grain. We used Crystal malt that was steeped for 45 minutes in an extract recipe.

[Note: We actually forgot the sugar and it still worked]

Ingredients

3 cups spent grain (wet)
1.5 cups warm water
1 package of dry yeast (1 tblsp)
1/3 cups sugar
3 to 5 cups flour
Dash salt (optional)

Instructions

  • Mix sugar and water and add in yeast. This is a starter for the yeast. Leave for an hour. (You should get some krausen)
  • Put spent grain in a large bowl with salt. Mix in starter (yeast/water).

  • Keep adding flour until the dough is smooth and no longer sticky.

  • Place dough in large bowl, cover with a clean towel, and let rise until dough is doubled.

  • Punch down dough and split into two loaves and place in on a cookie sheet with a thin layer of corn meal under the loaf.

  • Allow loaves to double in size, bake at 375°F in oven for 30-40 minutes until brown.