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Recipe: Brussels Beer Project Babylone

This “bread IPA,” with a profile like a big, bitter British ESB, gets extra character and body from the addition of crusty, unsold loaves from Brussels supermarkets—promoting a less wasteful economy while suggesting new avenues for flavor experimentation.

Joe Stange 3 years ago

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Brussels Beer Project brews its Babylone from unsold bread—and later, its spent grains go to make more bread. Photo: Courtesy Brussels Beer Project.

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Babylone is partly inspired by the ancient tradition of using bread to produce beer. However, Brussels Beer Project also brews it to help reduce food waste and support the creation of a circular, participative economy.

Brewing it since 2015, the brewery works with local Delhaize supermarkets to source unsold bread. The bread goes to a Brussels nonprofit called Groot Eiland, which employs people from disadvantaged backgrounds, who then process it into dried crumbs. It then goes to the Anders brewery near Hasselt, Belgium, where Brussels Beer Project currently contract-brews the Babylone brand.

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