Quote Originally Posted by withm View Post
It seems you are supposed to be able to store this dough in the fridge for as long as 10 days to 2 weeks. This is the second time I've gone to start a loaf, only to find the dough with a grayish cast on the top, and a bit of a stale beer odor. I think it was in the fridge for a week, and in an unsealed Tupperware type container. Thinking it's the beginning of a moldy science experiment I've chucked it out. Am I being premature? What do you think?
I find it won't last more than about 8 days tops. I don't like the slimy gray and beer odor...yuk!
My best result is baking two loaves of bread from the basic 6cupflour boule recipe, the same day I mix the dough, without any fridge time at all, baking them in my two cast iron dutch oven pots.
Here are the two loaves I made yesterday, a poppy and a sesame:


SjTiger- that challah is GORGEOUS!!