Recent content by teresalgl

How do you know? Have you tried it? And at this point in the process, we would want wort, not beer.

Maybe a raw sour beer would be the way to go.

It does seem to say that DMS is created by heating -- hmmm, I guess the only real way to find out if you'd get any off-flavors is to try it.

Enzymes are catalysts. They only speed up what would naturally occur. The starches would break down into sugars eventually. Probably would take a day or 2 though. Could campden be used to sanatize? And I'm not sure about the DMS. It may be possible to add a reagent and get it to crash...

I should add that I also wish people were more well informed about the effects of their food choices. But that is difficult to attain and abstract.

I think you may lose the majority of the starch by washing the grains in acid? Especially after rinsing it too? I don't think an enzyme is required -- should be able to just soak the grains for an extended period of time. Also, don't the alpha acids in the hops need to be isomerized to...

Perhaps a vacuum evaporator would be useful.

Wouldn't that rule out a decent amount of tropical food then? I'm sure it gets warmer than that just sitting on the vine.

But I don't know what to do about converting the alpha acids in the hops to get the bitterness....

I don't necessarily think you need to heat grain to malt it. Maybe it is common practice, but isn't malting just getting it wet and letting it grow for a few days? There is probably other methods to stopping the growing process -- perhaps freezing?

Oh right -- well then soak unmalted grain, it should still extract the sugars, might take a little longer though.

I think you could soak malted grain in RT water for a few days, but you might want to use campden to keep away the nasties.

I honestly think it is silly that people get all weird about categories like this. Life is not that cut and dry. It's not like you are a vegan or you're not, at least in most cases. For me, "vegan" is just a word for me to discribe what I choose to eat the majority of the time. People tend...

My beer for the last day of the Mayan calender:

Thanks, I was thinking about fuggles too. Wit is really just the grain bill, and I want the hop to accentuate the flavor of the wild rice.