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I'm a *******! lol Apparently the barley I bought cannot be germinated. It's a huskless type, I don't know if that's the way it's called in English: little barley? The first batch of grains I tried to malt germinated because most of it was wheat, so I couldn't see the barley in it didn't...

You mean repeat that whole 8h soak-8h dry-2h soak-8h dry cycle or just repeat the 2h soak-8h dry cycle? I hope that wasn't too confusing. Btw, I just put 10 tablespoons of barley in each pot and started each with one of these processes we discussed here. Let's see which one is best.

Are you sure? It looked nasty, and I think it was too liquid to be just starch... Maybe starch mixed with some byproduct of bacteria (lactic acid, probably) in a slightly dehydrated state?

That's awesome, thanks for the feedback! I don't know wether we over-soaked or under-soaked the seeds. I've read some sources that tell to keep the grains soaked until the seeds begin to chit, only changing water and rinsing the grains every 8 hours. I found this somewhere about gluten free...

I threw it out. I decided that it wasn't worth keeping it since most grains were not sprouted anymore, some were adhered to each other and most had that weird white gluey liquid when squeezed, and now the smell was like chaff or hay (I had to travel for the last 4 days and had my mother taking...

So I'm in the 5th day of germination and the bad smell is gone. Now i'm worried about a white gluey substance that's coming out of some grains when you squeeze them. I'm also having a hard time finding whether the acrospyre is at the right length to stop the germination. Help?

I've been thinking, maybe the smell is due to the bacteria fermenting only the sugar in suspension in the water the grains were soaked, and they only contaminated the water (or maybe the outer surface of the grains). Hopefully when I'm done with the drying and roasting process, the smell will go...

Yes, I started malting it Sunday afternoon, removed the residual husks and unusable grains, left it 6 hours covered in water, washed the water away, and have been convering it in water, draining and leaving it 8 more hours since then (with the pot covered). Today (Wednesday morning) I rinsed for...

What if it's sour? Should I discard it? ps: I didn't expressed myself correctly in the first post; the smell resembles more that of vomit... gross

Ok, thank you all for the info. I'm searching harder for brewing stores near me (though I guess I'll have to have it shipped in the end).

well, I've been following this tutorial for 3 days now with barley and wheat grains It's been turning out fine, the grains have been sprouting quickly, tomorrow morning I'll transfer the grains to a clay pot for the germination to be completed. One question though: when I open the pot...

I'm new to the forum, hope I can learn a lot from you guys! :ban: Ok, so I'm going to start brewing beer for the first time. I'll start with a 5L batch of wheat beer (my preference). :cross: I bought some basic equipment over the internet, some wheat and some barley grains, some yeast (bread...