mcbethenstein

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Any one try these? Sprouted quinoa. It's not cheap. This bag is $6.99 for only 12 oz. My local health food store has some in the bulk bins. 1#/$6.69 ouch! Would it basically be malted, or does it need to be sprouted further. If malting is a major PITA I might consider this, but only if I'm in a time crunch.

dorklord

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I actually bought a package of the exact same thing, but I haven't done anything with it yet. To be honest, I thought it looked about the same as my quinoa after a couple hours soaking (which I was told wasn't sprouted yet).

But, it may well be worth a shot...

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How about this? Right now I'm attempting to malt 8.5 lbs of buckwheat and about 2 lbs of millet. I skipped the quinoa... Couldn't find it cheap enough. If all works out well I want to roast 1- 1.5 lbs to a chocolate/black malt. So given that here is my recipe draft:

Vanilla Milk Chocolate Oatmeal Stout (Working title)

7.5 lbs buckwheat malt
1.5 lbs millet malt
1 lb chocolate buckwheat malt
0.5 lb black millet malt
1 lbs. GF rolled oats
1 tsp amylase enzymes to mash
1 oz. US Kent Goldings hop pellets
1 lb lactose
1/4 tsp supermoss
1 tsp DAP
1 pkt. Nottingham yeast
Cocoa powder
2-3 vanilla beans halved
gelatin if needed to help clear

Multi-step mash (pouring off enzyme water early & adding back later) process was described on another page.
Not sure if I need a 60 or 90 min boil.
Cocoa powder and vanilla beans in secondary.

What do you think? Am I missing anything? Anything seem off? I'm thinking of trying to find amylase enzyme powder to increase my mash efficiency.

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I did something similar to this with buckwheat, millet and bobs red mill GF oats. I used more millet and 1 pound of oats. Final product seemed oily from the oats. I would not use oats as more than 10 percent of the grain bill. Even then maybe toasting to dry them out?

mcbethenstein

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Were the oats whole, rolled, quick cooking, or steel cut? I got the GF quick cooking (oatmeal like) oats. They look really dry. I could Imagine the steel cut or whole oats might be oily.

How did you like it? What was your impression of the taste?

dorklord

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I used Bob's Red Mill rolled oats for my oatmeal stout. I think steel cut or whole would need to be cooked before mashing.

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I love having 2 LHBS available. What one lacks the other has! I got 1.5 oz of amylase enzyme for $1.95. Love brew and grow. Love northern brewer. Buckwheat is looking great. And it appears even my millet is looking like it wants to sprout! I'll post pics as soon as I upload them. Im revising my recipe too. Will use 1 tsp amylase enzymes as part of the multi-step mash, Cutting oats down to 1 lb (from 2lbs) Switching to EKG hops (from willamette) and adding DAP at end of the boil.
You don't think it's too much do you? I read on one thread on here somewhere that with barley you can do the minimum and get a pretty good beer but with GF you need to pull out all the stops before you get something great.

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When do I kiln the buckwheat? after about 30 hours this is what I have. the roots are about 1/2 to equal length to the groat. I started the millet last night, and am just starting to see rootlets bumping their way out, but not in huge quanitity yet.

mcbethenstein

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Oops, I forgot about the d2 syrup. If it looks too light going into the boil or the gravity is not high enough I'll add it.

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Your buckwheat looks great! I would dry it now.
I also used bob reds mill rolled oats for my stout. The oat flavor did come through, I just had the oily problem.