beer_master
Well-Known Member
Is it possible to make a beer just out of the unmalted grains and alpha-amylase enzyme,no malt at all...and what would be the taste like
What about sprouted barley?
I realize it's almost malting yourself if you let the grain sprout, then mash it.
I suspect this is how beer was first made intentionally (as opposed to the accidental beer that we got before someone figgered out how to do it on purpose). But I have no proof. And the jury seems to be out on how we ended up with beer in the first place, lo, those thousands of years ago.
I smell an experiment. And the origins of beer fascinate me. I still hold the belief that beer is responsible for agriculture.
I was always under the impression that the germination/cracking of the husk is what created/released the starches. I assumed that the starch present in unmalted grain was negligible.
you can just make it like chicha and mash in your mouth
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