How to achieve a crust/crumb texture like this?

Toast

I bought this amazingly delicious bread from a bakery in my hometown

It was dense but it felt light and with a great crispy crust and plenty of grains.

I wonder how they achieve such texture of the crust and crumb.

Any ideas?

 

 

Also what size are they? It's hard to to tell if they're a few inches or a few feet long. :) Great photos btw. Any more details would be useful. Maybe the name of the loaf? Name of the bakery?

not too far from here that made a bread that looked similar and he called it Danish Rye.  It was very good and I use to go one or two Thursday mornings a month to buy one, if you went in the afternoon you only had a 50/50 chance that he would have any left by Friday you would have to wait for next week.

Gerhard

All the information I have from the bread I got is that it has 50% whole wheat and 50% dark wheat
and I can see sesame seeds, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds and flax as topping.

After obsessive search in google I think I found something similar to that bread

In this recipe of "cape seed bread"
http://amsterdamflavours.com/cape-seed-bread/

I found it hard to believe this is a 1 hour bread

 

 

what distinction are you making between whole wheat and dark wheat? I don't understand what you mean by dark wheat? I would have thought those terms mean the same thing.. whole grain/berry ground flour.. ??

Bet it is tasty.   30 g of yeast is a pack half - quite a bit.  I think I would make this as a poolsh with a pinch of yeast as a preferment or a SD with a YW kicker.

By dark wheat flour, I mean a darker flour, probably a low extraction flour taken near the bran i.e the darker part of the wheat grain. 

I guess it doesn't really matters for the bread itself, although low extraction flours tend to have less protein  

I only mentioned it because in the bakery's menu they said "50% dark wheat flour & 50% whole wheat"

I used to make a whole wheat sourdough that you literally had to pour into the tin, it looked much like these; with a greased tin