Brero White Bread Flour is better suited for sourdoughs and long ferments.
A high protein White Bread Flour with a protein level of 13.3-13.7 % and absorption rate atupto 70% is probably the best White Bread Flour on the market for sourdough baking .
It’s a sad fact that most white bread flour milled in Australia are milled to suit the “fast dough” process. You really can’t blame Millers, since this is probably still over 98% of their market. It’s a shame however, for us sourdough bakers.
An initiative on our part is the introduction of “Brero” White Bread Flour. Different white bread flours were routinely tested and evaluated before we decided to use it as “Brero” Flours.
When producing true sourdoughs, the long fermentation cycle requires the white bread flour to have certain characteristics to suit this process. The ideal specs for a suitable white bread flour requires parameters such as protein level, falling value, ash level, starch damage and enzymatic activity to fall in a fairly specific range to make it ideally suitable for sourdough baking.
Even Flours that, on paper, appear to have (closer to) the desired specifications frequently have (wide) variations between batches.
American Flours are routinely blended at the Mill with Diastatic Malt. This is not the case in Australia. Hence US sourced sourdough recipes/formulas may not work quite as well with Australian Flours. Adding Diastatic Malt may fix some of these problems.
PACKED IN 1 KG BAGS
Ingredients: Wheat Flours, Thiamine, Folic Acid.
micleahug (verified owner) –
Brero White Bread Flour is absolutely wonderful. It made an absolutely delicious loaf of sourdough – probably the best I have ever made. Give this a try you will not be disappointed.