Preferment Stout Bread

Irish Stout Bread Recipe

Cook Time: 10 Minutes

What you need

Preferment

  • 90g Stout
  • 80g Water
  • 7g Yeast
  • 210g Odlums Strong flour

Bread

  • 500g Odlums Strong flour
  • 15g Yeast
  • 290g of Stout
  • 15g of salt

Recipe Steps

  1. Mix the preferment in a bowl, cover and leave for 12 hours in the fridge covered.
  2. On the day you bake the bread. Add the flour, yeast, Guinness, Salt and preferment.
  3. Mix in a bread mixer on medium-high for 8 mins. Alternatively, you can knead by hand for 10minutes.
  4. Clingfilm and rest for 40-45mins to ferment.
  5. Shape into 80g balls and place on a lined tray.
  6. Cover with oil spray and clingfilm and prove for 10mins.
  7. Bake at 250oC for 10minutes with a tray of water underneath. Bake for a further 5mins at 210oC
    Enjoy.

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