Kal wrote:how hard is it to malt your own barley?
Can buy a 30Kg bag for under 17 bucks here in NSW from horse feed places. If it's just a simple soak in water, let it germinate, then dry it out it would save alot of money!
BackyardBrewer wrote:Unless I'm reading it wrong the corn has to be malted then cracked? It's not just cracked corn kernels is it?
-22kg(50lbs) of dried cracked yellow corn. The kind without any additives or other grains, that you'd buy at a feed store to feed chickens.
MtnMoonshiner wrote:Some final points. The barley and rye are optional but add a fantastic flavor in my opinion...However, you can use just straight corn(I recommend trying just corn eventually and seeing which you like best).
You can use corn malt, or barley malt. It doesn't matter which, but you need to use some kind of malt, because it aids the yeast in breaking down the sugars into alcohol. If you decide to use corn malt, just subtract the amount of barley malt from the total amount of corn. for example, 50lbs of corn total, but if I don't use barley malt I would use 13lbs of malted corn, with 37lbs of unmalted corn for a total of 50lbs. And then add unmalted barley and rye in their prescribed amounts.
WineGlass wrote:MtnMoonshiner wrote:Some final points. The barley and rye are optional but add a fantastic flavor in my opinion...However, you can use just straight corn(I recommend trying just corn eventually and seeing which you like best).
You can use corn malt, or barley malt. It doesn't matter which, but you need to use some kind of malt, because it aids the yeast in breaking down the sugars into alcohol. If you decide to use corn malt, just subtract the amount of barley malt from the total amount of corn. for example, 50lbs of corn total, but if I don't use barley malt I would use 13lbs of malted corn, with 37lbs of unmalted corn for a total of 50lbs. And then add unmalted barley and rye in their prescribed amounts.
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BackyardBrewer wrote:Unless I'm reading it wrong the corn has to be malted then cracked? It's not just cracked corn kernels is it?
halfbaked wrote:It is malt and then crack most def.
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