What's killing your bread? — Brenner Bakery
Hollis Brenner at his kitchen table in Rhinebeck, NY

I can tell you what's killing your bread.

Four questions. Forty-two years of baking. — Hollis

No email. Just answers.

Question 1 of 4

Do you mostly buy bread or bake it yourself?

Question 2 of 4

How fast does your bread go bad?

Question 3 of 4

Where do you keep your bread?

Question 4 of 4

Last one — what do you really want?

Looking at your answers...

Based on your answers — here's what's happening:

Bread shouldn't go bad this fast. After 42 years, I know why it does.

The bag is the problem.

Plastic traps moisture.

Brenner Bakery cotton bread bag

Here's the fix

The Brenner Bread Bag.

Cotton, lined with beeswax. Keeps your bread fresh for a week — no mold by Wednesday, no brick by Friday, still crispy on day five. The way bread bags were made before plastic.

Hand-finished by Hollis at his kitchen table in Rhinebeck, NY.

Sale ends today.

When this batch is sewn, that's the last of them.

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92% sold — only 18 bags left in this batch
Send Me a Bag →

90-day money back. Free returns. — Hollis

What you stop throwing out

$250

a year, in most houses — that's the stale and moldy bread that ends up in the bin.

The bag pays for itself by the second month. The cotton lasts years.

My grandmother stored bread in cotton, the way her mother did. — Cathy
Brenner Bakery bread bag with sourdough loaves — 100% organic cotton outer, beeswax lining
Prevents mold and sogginess
Keeps bread fresh 5–7 days
Plastic-free, beeswax-coated cotton
Made by a real baker in Rhinebeck, NY

What others have said

90-day money back. If it doesn't keep your bread fresh, send it back. I'll refund every cent. — Hollis
When they're gone, they're gone. — Cathy