So, a lot of good information, but no real answers to your question. I've had good experience with this one. The only way anyone can tell it from the real thing is that it's a lot fresher. Even in Texas commercial Negra always tastes slightly past the sell-by date, if you split hairs. Still...
Yes, "flaked" is a flakey marketing term for gelatinized most often. Instead of doing it the way we would, which would leave them with a gooey mess to sell, rollers can be used to create heat from pressure without having to get it wet. That's why rolled oats and flaked oats mean the same...
So, there's really no way to do it simply- I'm sorry; that keg and all is *never* going to be simple at least in terms of the ordinary language meaning of that word- once the yeast is dead. Carbonation drops are just sugar and something has to be alive to ferment it. Got it.
OK. Here was my...