Brewing and Baking

Brewing and Baking

This is an article about the correlation between brewing beer and baking bread and their ancient origins. Brewing beer and baking bread are very closely tied and continue into the modern age, with both processes being similar and with the possibility of being symbiotic. Both brewing and baking are processes that require fermentation of grains (brewing uses hops and bread uses wheat), and some places will actually use spent grains from the beer making process in their breads. The ancient Egyptians considered them to be so similar and important that in many tombs there were jars of beer and loaves of bread.

This article dives deep into the similarities between brewing and baking, with similarities being cereal grains and fermentation and differences being the end product and the exact details of the bread/beer making process. In fact, bread was commonly used in the beer making process, by using the yeast and bacteria in the bread to help ferment into beer. This article also dives into the ingredients that go into beer and bread, with the wheat berry being the main example and how the different parts of the berry being used in different ways. This is a very in depth look at the two different processes but a fascinating look behind the curtain of the history of brewing and baking.

Delwen Samuel