can i brew beer and bake bread in the same house?

i’d be brewing and baking outside the house, in basically the same place.  uncovered area.  is this ok?  i heard you can’t bake and brew in the same place due to the different types of yeasts.

thanks in advance.

I do it inside all the time, and it always works.  Not sure why this could ever be an issue unless you’re sprinkling baker’s yeast in your beer.

Yes you can - no worries.

In fact… People take yeast cakes after fermentation and make bread with them. I hear Belgian yeasts make great bread.

There is a guy in our club who brews in this garage and has a small comercial bakery in the room just inside.  He has been doing this for a long long time.  His beers and his bread are both excellent.

I’ve baked bread and brewed in the same area, on the same day, with no problems.
Cheers!

I do both in my kitchen. I’m just careful to keep my sourdough starters away from my pure yeast starters and beers.

Its kind of become a tradition for us on brew day. We use some of the spent grain from the mash and use a bit of cooled wort to wake up the bread yeast. It’s like making your beer and eating it too! Go for it!

thanks to all for dispellng the myth i’ve heard circulated for quite some time!

now to find a good bread book!

suggestions?

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Anything that starts with “New Complete” must be good :slight_smile:

Bernard Clayton used to live in Hilo too.  :wink:

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this one.  He has a few others, and they’re all good.

Agreed, Reinhart is the man when it comes to baking.

His bread recipes can’t be touched by anyone else.  Although, King Arthur Flour’s cookbook is the Bible of baking other things…