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I boiled the grain. However, I wasn't attempting to make a "beer" in the normal sense. I was hoping to extract a barley flavor from the pearl barley and not convert starches. This is more of a barley wine. I used 10lbs brown sugar as the fuel. As I said, it was an experiment to just see what...

I used 2lbs of pearl barley. Turned into a big sticky mess in my pot and I couldn't stir enough to keep it from burning at the bottom. It was an experiment to see what kind of barley wine like drink I could make with just stuff from the kitchen. I removed all the blackened barley from it...

I recently tried making a barley wine / weird beer but the problem is I burnt a bit of the whole grain barley on the bottom of the pot. I tried to remove as much as I could but now after bottling their is a profound burnt, smokey flavor. In fact, the burnt flavor is a bit gross. Any...

Has anyone fermented anything using Indian Sarsaparilla? The stuff smells sooo good. Or, has anyone made an alcoholic root beer? If so, could you share recipes and ideas? Last year I made fermented a brown sugar wash with some indian sarsaparilla and anise using a wine yeast. There is no...

The taste is hard to describe. It definitely has a vague sarsparilla / root beer-esque element. It's a sipper that gives you a nice warmth in your chest. I wasn't familiar with the taste of anise before and I think perhaps there is a strong anise flavor here, kind of medicinal. I'm attracted...

Sorry, new here. Didn't realize posting it on different forums would link together like this, thought I'd cover my bases. Yeah, seaweed was a bad descriptor. Just at a loss of words. I've never seen lees do that before and the strange thing was that my wash seemed clear of sediments before...

Hi, So I thought I'd get creative and make up a fermented drink out of the blue. Unfortunately I did not keep notes so I do not remember the exact ingredients or amounts but it was something like this: Brown sugar. Anise. Sarsparilla root. water strained from steeping in oats. I...

Hi, So I thought I'd get creative and make up a fermented drink out of the blue. Unfortunately I did not keep notes so I do not remember the exact ingredients or amounts but it was something like this: Brown sugar. Anise. Sarsparilla root. water strained from steeping in oats. I...

Hi, So I thought I'd get creative and make up a fermented drink out of the blue. Unfortunately I did not keep notes so I do not remember the exact ingredients or amounts but it was something like this: Brown sugar. Anise. Sarsparilla root. water strained from steeping in oats. I...