Bbrood

Bbrood is a sourdough bakery on the Beethovenstraat in Amsterdam-Zuid, one of eleven Amsterdam shops of a bakery that has been built entirely around desembrood (sourdough) since it opened on the Zeedijk in 2008.

The bread is made from Dutch grain and baked in an oven with a stone floor, and the bakery aims for all its dough to be local sourdough. Their website names no mill or farm for the grain. Bbrood says it is working towards using more biodynamic ingredients and towards a first fully biodynamic shop; it holds no organic or Demeter certificate, and what qualifies it here is the sourdough baking itself.

The Beethovenstraat shop is open Monday to Friday from 7:30 to 17:00, on Saturday from 8:00 to 17:00 and on Sunday from 8:00 to 14:00.

Bbrood also runs bakeries in Uganda, Kenya and Rwanda, where it trains bakers and buys as many ingredients as it can from local farmers.