Sourdough Beer Bread (Schwarzbierbrot)
Sourdough Beer Bread (Schwarzbierbrot)

Hello everybody, it is me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, sourdough beer bread (schwarzbierbrot). It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Great recipe for Sourdough Beer Bread (Schwarzbierbrot). This is a German-style hearty loaf. The combination of sourdough and dark beer/ale will give you a beautiful, rustic bread with a darker, crisp crust and wonderful aroma.

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To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook sourdough beer bread (schwarzbierbrot) using 16 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Sourdough Beer Bread (Schwarzbierbrot):
  1. Take SOURDOUGH PRE-DOUGH:
  2. Make ready 120 g Rye flour
  3. Make ready 110 ml water (slightly less than 1/2 cup)
  4. Get 1 Tbsp sourdough starter/mother (12 g)
  5. Prepare POOLISH PRE-DOUGH:
  6. Take 110 g whole wheat or whole grain spelt flour
  7. Get 110 ml water (slightly less than 1/2 cup)
  8. Make ready 2 pinches active dry yeast
  9. Get MAIN DOUGH:
  10. Make ready 1 batch each Finished sourdough + poolish from above
  11. Make ready 270 g bread flour
  12. Prepare 115 g dark beer or brown ale (1/2 cup)
  13. Make ready 2 g active dry yeast (1/2 tsp)
  14. Prepare 10 g kosher salt (2 tsp)
  15. Get 10 g honey, optional (2 tsp)
  16. Take 1 handful each flaxseed and sunflower seeds (optional)

Shape into a boule by tucking the edges under itself, then gently rotating the dough on the surface to form a taught outer layer of dough.(Here's a quick video of how to shape a boule.)For an oval-shaped loaf, roll the boule seam-side-down, between the pads of your hands and the counter to elongate. Sourdough Beer Bread combines the deep, rich taste of beer with sourdough for a bread that you'll want to enjoy over and over again! Over the last year I've had pretty good success making sourdough bread. I've tried making sourdough bread from regular milk kefir (which was really very good), as well as homemade greek yogurt.

Instructions to make Sourdough Beer Bread (Schwarzbierbrot):
  1. In separate bowls, mix together the ingredients for the Sourdough Pre-dough and the Poolish Pre-dough. Cover each bowl with plastic and let it at room temp for about 20 hours.
  2. After 20 hours the Sourdough Pre-dough should be a little frothy and bigger. The Poolish Pre-dough will be bubbly and bigger.
  3. In a large bowl, mix together the two pre-doughs and the rest of the ingredients (except for flaxseed and sunflower seeds) until it comes together into a sticky lumpy dough.
  4. Remove the dough onto a well-floured cutting board and knead with the palm of your hands: push the dough down with your hand, fold in over itself and push down again, rotating as you go.
  5. Knead for 15-17 minutes. The dough will become more elastic and smooth. If it sticks a lot to the surface or your hands while kneading, dust with a little more flour and scrape up the dough from the surface to incorporate back in.
  6. If mixing in flaxseed/sunflower seeds, gradually knead them into the dough after the 15 minutes of kneading.
  7. Form into a ball and return to the bowl. Cover with plastic and let rise for 2 hours at room temp (the the dough over itself after 1 hour and return to bowl).
  8. After 2 hours of rising, remove the dough, turn upside down and fold the sides up to form into a ball again (this helps make sure the exposed part of the dough's skin gets moistened again. Let sit for 20 minutes covered with wrap.
  9. Form the round dough into a long, cylindrical loaf. Place it fold-side down on parchment paper and let rise for another 30 minutes.
  10. Meanwhile preheat oven to 480°F/250°C. Place a shallow pan at the bottom rack which we'll use to create steam later. (prepare some boiling water for this too)
  11. When ready to bake, cut a 1 cm deep slit down the center of the bread. (I sprinkled the top of my bread with flaxseed, but I don't recommend this because it got too dark during baking).
  12. Place the loaf on the center rack on a baking sheet and pour boiling water into the pan below it. Bake for 10 minutes, then carefully remove the tray of steaming water. Turn oven down to 430°F/220°C and bake for 30-35 minutes until the crust is dark and crisp.
  13. Remove from oven and let cool on a rack for about 1 hour.
  14. Slice and enjoy with butter, cheese, or your favorite accompaniments with bread :)

For instance, a rye sourdough starter may make an interesting bread with a hoppy IPA beer. Have fun with this recipe and experiment to your heart's content. The recipe is designed to create two medium-sized loaves and you can freeze one either after the first rise or once it has been baked. I was inspired to make this bread from childhood visits to the Suffolk coast and to Southwold, the home of Adnams Ale, who make a lovely dark beer called Broadside. And thus was born the experimentation that resulted in this recipe for Sourdough Beer Bread.

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