I think you may be breaking new ground here.
The variety we've been using is a proprietary variety developed in Thailand for use in Australia that produces large white grains. It's still undergoing crop and analysis tests and not yet commercially available. Queensland University of Technology...
I've not seen any evidence of anyone malting sweet sorghum seeds to make a traditional beer out of it, but it would be great to see someone with some malting experience take this one on.
Roughly 1% of the total population of western society is coeliac so there is a potentially huge market...
Sweet sorghum syrup can be used to make the best gluten-free beer you have ever tasted -- in fact, you'd never know it's gluten-free and is one of my favourite home-brews I've ever made. It's brewed as an ale from the syrup, not the grain, and has a sort of fresh "lemony" flavour with loads of...