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Sure that is cheating. Major grocery, no specialty asian or other grocers. Now if your store has an ethnic section like mine does then your ok to use it.

Tenchiro. Official Rules Post Needed I think

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If you can find malta goya at your grocery store (usually with the other mexican soda pop) a lot of people use that for yeast starters. (I didn't believe it til I googled it awhile back.)



Hmmm...rather than using it for a starter, I wonder if it could be used as a liguid base extract...Maybe boosted with bakers malt extract (like what was shown on the other thread) and maybe some treacle or Lyle's golden syrup....

Hmmm...maybe I will be in on this...(another use for the gathering dust Mr Beer Keg).

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Good idea revvy. I was just looking for that post about that.

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If I recall from my reading last winter, it is lightly hopped...

I'll try to dig up the info....

I wonder how much it would take to boil it into a reduction? I never tried it, but I fugure if it's like soda pop it might already be pretty watery...

By the way...I don't know if anyone realizes it but the kind of "Malt" in malted milk or ovaltine is not the same as a malted barley.

From How to brew...

Brewer's malt is not Malted Milk Balls, Malted Milk Shakes, nor is it malt extract. In those cases, malt refers to the use of maltose - the sugar. The malts that brewers talk about are the specific types of malted barley that are processed to yield a wide range of fermentable maltose sugars. These include Lager Malts, Pale Malts, Vienna Malts, Munich Malts, Toasted, Roasted and Chocolate Malts.....

Not that it wouldn't be worth trying ovaltine or malted milk balls, it may be nice as a chololate porter or stout base...

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Here's the info right from Goya Foods.

Some info from the wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malta_(soft_drink)

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Yeah I realized that but I dont know that everyone else has.
I would bet that Goya malta has a gravity like 1.012 maybe a little lighter then that. That would be a hell of a reduction to have to make to get that into a range that would actually produce some alcohol

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I've seen different specific gravities of Malta Goya on different brewing websites...

THis one says;

Now I've read elsewhere that it is 1.040...I think the discrepency in gravities is perhaps becasue people don't decant it and let the bubbles die away before they take a reading...

What I can't find anywhere is what the IBU's are...Goya says it is hopped... Probably like 1 or 2 ibus..

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Wheaties and whole corn meal mash!!! Sounds like fun-

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Really? That heavy of a gravity wow! even at 1.040 you could possibly just use that although that would completely defeat the purpose of this little experiment.

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