Dmay said:Anyone read the article in Brew this month about malting your own grains??? and tried it??
Dmay said:Well I just wanted to try it so I could say I did it, way to much work and It would take many batches in my food dryer
I spent a lot of time thinking about this today. What I was thinking is you could heat up some sand to say 120 degrees. Then mix the sand with the sprouted barley. The sand should dry out the barley like it does when preserving flowers. Then if you had the sand barley mix in a closed barrell you could roll it like a rock tumbler to knock the sprout from the grain. then sift the barley from the mix? I applaud you for trying to do what you can. After all they sell real good beer at the brewpubs, but that is not what it's all about!Evan! said:Try it out once and let us know how it goes! I don't have a food dryer, either, so I'm not sure what I'd do if I were to try it.
Thanks for the link. I listened to the pod cast. That was very interesting. I think the sand drying and kilning in a large ss pot(44 qt) over a gas turkey fryer would allow for drying and toasting at the same time. toasting the grains nearer the burner and drying those grains higher in the colume. Something to think about? Thanks!brewman ! said:BasicBrewing.com did an interview with the author of that article and discussed a lot of stuff about malting your own grains.
Here is there radio page:
http://www.basicbrewing.com/radio/
Here is the grain malting mp3 link:
http://media.libsyn.com/media/basicbrewing/bbr03-01-07.mp3
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