Mekx Brood

Mekx Brood is a bakery with shops in Bennekom and Doorwerth that calls itself a baguette specialist; the bread for both shops is baked in Doorwerth.

The bakers keep their sourdough starters (desem) going every day: a spelt starter for a 100 per cent spelt wholemeal loaf, and a wheat starter, made with mill-ground wheat, for the other sourdough breads, the croissants and the baguettes. The dough rises for between 18 and 24 hours in dedicated proving rooms. Their speciality is Bennekoms Bierbrood, a sourdough rye loaf for which the rye is first cooked in dark beer. The shops also sell everyday wholemeal and multigrain bread, biscuits, cake and pastries, plus regional products. Whether the sourdough loaves also contain added baker's yeast isn't stated, and neither is the mill or where the grain is grown.

The Bennekom shop on the Dorpsstraat is open Tuesday to Thursday from 8:00 to 15:00 and on Friday and Saturday from 8:00 to 17:00, and bread can also be ordered through the webshop.

The rye in the beer bread comes from Bennekom, and so does the beer it is cooked in.