Bread From Yesat Scum?

[jarrad]

Has anyone made bread using the sediments at the bottom of a fermenter after brewing? I assume that a pretty high proportion of this is yeast. Since it's already faily active, would it just be a matter of mixing it into the other ingredients, then letting it prove etc. as you would with normal bread?

Could taste bloody weird though.

 

[pint of lager]

Never made bread from beer yeast, but a friend said that 05 is great for bread.

Don't try to go the other way and use bread yeast for beer. The results are supposed to be very ordinary.

 

[ausdb]

Hopefully Asher will chip in here but I am pretty sure he has made bread with yeast before, I think he said it worked well but it took a lot longer to rise than using normal bread yeast. If you are harvesting out of the fermenter make sure you get the nice creamy yeast and not too much trub.

 

[mikelinz]

look for beer bread or sourdough bread in google loads of options

 

[bonj]

Chris White from Whitelabs reckons that beer yeast is fine for bread, it just isn't optimised for quick rising like bread yeast, so needs a little longer to rise. Beer yeast is carefully selected for traits that are useful in brewing, but have no effect in bread. I'd say go for it. It's a plentiful supply of nice fresh yeast. Add some beer to the bread, and make it really special!

 

[jarrad]

How much of the sloppy stuff at the bottom would you say is equivalent to a packet of dried yeast? I've used a spare packet of dry brewing yeast before and it worked really well.