Hi Jean, what a curious case you've shared with us here! We'd love to troubleshoot further, but we need a bit more information about your ingredients, method, and recipe. It sounds like perhaps the flour-yeast-beer mixture wasn't mixed quite enough before being left to rise. While kneading the dough isn't usually required in recipes like this, all of the ingredients should be fully combined. It's possible that there was a pocket of flour and beer that didn't get fully mixed in the day before. We hope you'll consider giving our friendly Baker's Hotline a call at 855-371-BAKE(2253) so we can gather some additional details and figure out what may have caused these results. We hope that despite some of the trouble you had, the final results were still delicious! Kye@KAF
September 6, 2018 at 1:19pm
In reply to I have just gotten up at 5 am to prepare my Almost No-Knead bre… by Jean Colson (not verified)