Brewing with hay??
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Now that's a good one...Maybe clover hay or the like. Adding that to a light pale ale may do the trick. Maybe just make sure it's free of bugs & dirt & boil it separately. Then add that to the BK.
Well,you could try steeping a couple of pounds in maybe 1 gallon of water at 155F for 30 minutes or so. Strain that into the brew kettle with some extra light plain DME & perhaps Willamette & Kent Golding hops.
mikeysab
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Oh boy, I smell another "Geez, I was just kidding, you idiots took me seriously", after 3 pages.
What would one expect to get out of the hay? Better eyesight, like a rabbit? Better sex drive perhaps? You want to smell better? What advantage is there to adding hay to beer?
What would one expect to get out of the hay? Better eyesight, like a rabbit? Better sex drive perhaps? You want to smell better? What advantage is there to adding hay to beer?
Hay is usually made from clover or alfalfa (the plant,not the kid). If they were blooming at the time,the dried flowers would add another dimension. Not to be confused with straw,hay is still greenish,but dried whole plant material. Straw is the stalks of wheat after the grains have been removed.
So you may get something like cilantro with a bit of sweetness.
So you may get something like cilantro with a bit of sweetness.
dzlater
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Of all the off the wall stuff people want to add to beer that I've read on here. This is really close to tops.
mikeysab
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indiegrlx said:
If you don't like it, you could always set it out for the farm animals.
Bradinator
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Have you read the meat beer thread yet?
davefleck
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Sounds like an easy way to add tannins
mikeysab
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Probably make a hayzy beer
I'm guessing you missed the blood thread and the placenta beer.
gratus fermentatio
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Ever made a "hay tea"? It's a pretty grassy taste, I think it'll add that "grassiness" to your brew. Some hops can be pretty grassy, I had a beer once that was so grassy, it tasted exactly like lawn clippings smell; BLECH!!!
Some people actually like that grassy taste I guess, more for them. I think you should be OK by just tossing it into the boil, even if there are a few bugs in it, the boil will kill them & any bacteria that might be along for the ride. If you're using dry hay, you'll lose a bit of wort volume due to the hay soaking it up. You could also just make a hay tea & add that to your wort.
Regards, GF.
When they said that the beer should be straw colored, they didn't really mean....
cheezydemon3
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*giggle* dry "hop" *giggle*
As for odd ingredients in beer Papazian's The Complete Joy of Homebrewing 3 page 96: "Cock Ale"... a parboiled rooster that's been crushed, a half gallon of white wine, 3 lbs of raisins, and mace; that's quite a recipe.
dzlater
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Thankfully, yes I did miss them.
Personally I am not much of an experimenter. I just want to brew a tasty beer to drink.
But what ever makes you happy.
mikeysab
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How bout the one with the girls "house yeast"?
The girls house yeast usually comes from us,all things being equal. Sometimes they're not. Just goes to prove that head cheese doesn't go with everything.
gnarlyhopper
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Ah!!!
I am attracted to the noise of ridicule and laughter!
Hay is from the grass family, right? So is corn; and in America there were those who used green corn stalks to brew beer; a web search will turn up at least a recipe or two. There's fermentable sugars in them grass family. That's why we use barley, wheat, oats, corn...I imagine that corn stalks do not give the most pleasant homebrew experience, but it used to be done quite regularly in this country.
I would think that since the corn stalk recipes were preserved, they weren't a complete failure, or the recipe s would have been tossed.
Fresh corn stalks smell of sweetness when crushed, not unlike fresh hay or straw. Our forefathers probably noticed this characteristic as well, and, like us, decided to experiment.
Do a search for corn stalk beer and derive a recipe from that. You can make a brew and use the straw to add flavor.
I am curious as to the result of your efforts. Please keep us posted!
I am attracted to the noise of ridicule and laughter!
Hay is from the grass family, right? So is corn; and in America there were those who used green corn stalks to brew beer; a web search will turn up at least a recipe or two. There's fermentable sugars in them grass family. That's why we use barley, wheat, oats, corn...I imagine that corn stalks do not give the most pleasant homebrew experience, but it used to be done quite regularly in this country.
I would think that since the corn stalk recipes were preserved, they weren't a complete failure, or the recipe s would have been tossed.
Fresh corn stalks smell of sweetness when crushed, not unlike fresh hay or straw. Our forefathers probably noticed this characteristic as well, and, like us, decided to experiment.
Do a search for corn stalk beer and derive a recipe from that. You can make a brew and use the straw to add flavor.
I am curious as to the result of your efforts. Please keep us posted!
cheezydemon3
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAnd......
You killed it Gnarlyhopper. I am not a poster, but an official of the "Thread Killa" board.
Count it!
You killed it Gnarlyhopper. I am not a poster, but an official of the "Thread Killa" board.
Count it!
mikeysab
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You just resurrected it though
edb23
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hey there, old thread but an idea. When Chicha is brewed the beer is filtered through hay or straw. Why not bring the water to a boil. turn the heat off, and the fermentables, and then strain the whole thing through some hay into the boil kettle.
cheezydemon3
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Nope it is dead....WTF?????
edb23 has an actually relevant thought.....
edb23 has an actually relevant thought.....
I noticed some of you are confusing hay with straw. They are not the same. Straw is made from dried grain stalks after the grain is harvested. Hay is made from clover,alfalfa,etc specifically for live stock feed. And it's green,where straw is a light golden/tan sort of color.
cheezydemon3
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...hay....isn't....straw????????
Dear God......My world is crumbling.....
Dear God......My world is crumbling.....
I had a beer that tasted the same way, purely like grass, it was disgusting. I believe it was this one:
Rev.
Montanaandy
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Why stop at hay. Go for the entire equine experience and add wet manure (aka wet hops) and dry manure. You can "dry manure" the finished product for added flavor and aroma. My God, a new style has been created...
mikeysab
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I think you're being fecesious
Montanaandy
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For The Win...
yeah people often look at me funny when they say hay and I correct them. Fun fact. during the civil war some people didn't know the difference between their right and left so the soliders used to tie a piece of hay to one boot and a piece of straw to another boot to know how to march.
But I was thinking of using the hay in the mash to aid in the filter bed. kinda like rice hulls.
slightly off topic but i cant give much advice on how hay would be in beer but i can try to clarify what is hay and what is not
there are actually 2 general broad categories of hay one is grass hay (like coastal, bermuda grass) and the second is legume hay (like alfalfa, peanut)
the legume hay is what has been talked about more here it has a sweeter smell to it than grass hay does
there is yalls ag lesson for the day, week, month, or year (pick one)
there are actually 2 general broad categories of hay one is grass hay (like coastal, bermuda grass) and the second is legume hay (like alfalfa, peanut)
the legume hay is what has been talked about more here it has a sweeter smell to it than grass hay does
there is yalls ag lesson for the day, week, month, or year (pick one)
Yeah,legume hay,clover hay,etc is sweeter. I just figured they'd be better for how the op intends to use them.
TAPPOOL
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I baled a lot of hay and straw when I was a kid. Straw was always baled from oat stalks. The hay that I baled was mainly from alfalfa fields.
PS...I didn't want to get into this discussion because I couldn't believe what I was reading. Can't you guys find something better then hay to brew with. Come on, that's getting out there a bit IMHO.
PS...I didn't want to get into this discussion because I couldn't believe what I was reading. Can't you guys find something better then hay to brew with. Come on, that's getting out there a bit IMHO.
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