eelpout

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I think i'd rather puke from drinking beer, not making beer

Randar

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Yeah, funniest thing was he was all bent outta shape about brewing it the traditional way and chewing it. Then he gets down there and nobody chews their own raw corn anymore. The only exampkle he found was the last lady who chewed the germinated corn (much easier to do than the "fresh" corn) and then he comes back and does it differently, LOL!

I wonder if the employees wanted to kill ole Sam when they actually saw the episode and found out nobody in Peru chewed it themselves anymore?

DeepSouthGal

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I was thinking the same thing. Now I am new to the wide world of brewing but I thought that germinating the corn sounded an awful lot like the malting process for barley. Humm maybe a good thing, Sam? I love the looks on their faces at the end when he suggests doing another batch.

Revvy

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On the broadcast I thought, Sonora Pickard's germinated Chicha looked like Hoegaarden, it was even served in giant Hoegaarden glasses. It had that cloudy lemon yellow look about it. Didn't look un appetizing in the least.

Since they were collected spit samples and testing it for ALpha amalaze, couldn't they just have made a huge, *ahem* "Gob Starter" then ran the corn and the AA starter through a mill to mush and crush the corn and then let it ferment out on it's own, skipping the actually chewing of the 40 pounds of corn? It still would have been made with human saliva, but just not chewed and spit.....

I may be tempted to try making a spitliess version of it someday. Just using beeno or a commercial Alpha Amalaze product to do the work of the spitting.

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fergy89406

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Resurrecting a dead post?? You betcha!!

I'm in the mindset of actually trying to brew up a batch of Chicha this year.... but definitely not in the traditional way. I figure germinate the kernels, or get some corn, grind it to grits.... make a porridge, throw in some Amalyse enzyme... the needed spices.. and booya!

Out of curiosity, how did everyone's Chicha experiments turn out?

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Homercidal

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Shoot. I thought this was going to be a thread with pictures of female brewers.

Bummer.

fergy89406

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LOL that would be "Chica", Homer!

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Yo no comprendo espanol...