Looks great! Why do you call it "sweet"?
Sourdough baking
Sourdough baking
The recipe in the book is called that, it's because feeding the starter twice makes it much, like, softer? Flavor-wise
Meaning not sour? I don't have a good sense of what the 2 feedings should do. A two stage rye sponge creates more acidity then a one, but maybe this isn't very similar.
Correct, not sour. The starter barely starts to expand when you mix the final dough
It's strange that it doesn't have sugar in it, like a sweet stiff levain
Yeah, 'sweet' is definitely over the top, but it's hard to convey the specific smell of a young, active, recently fed starter, so I get why he went with it
I've never heard of that levain, but my sourdough experience is almost exclusively regular bread
Not a perfectly distributed crumb, but considering how gassy it was after the bulk ferment ran away, I'm happy with it