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Which do you do for a braggot? A steep or a mash? The malt I am going to use (1.5 kilos) is not going to produce very much sugar, but the honey I add (1.5 kilos) should make up for it (this is a 2.5 gallon batch). I am more inclined to get the taste from the malt than to get the sugars...

Somebody mentioned to me that I could steep the malt instead of mashing it, and add honey to make a braggot. Does anybody know how to do this? Could this recipe work? -steep malted barley (1.5 kilos) in about 4 liters of water, cooking at 68ºC for 25 minutes in a grain bag using a thermomix...

You can get malt around here, but it is unidentified and ground. That's the main reason why I can't get a malt extract, I'd have to order it from Barcelona and that would take weeks. Sweet potato is a source for beta-amylase. And ginger sweet potatoes with brown sugar is a real dish, so I...

Crap, apparently I need beta-amylaze as well.... anybody know any natural sources for beta amylaze?

Hmm, it may be too difficult to get that around here. I have read that ginger has ample amounts of alpha-amylaze. There's no doubt that the ginger will mess with the flavors, but on the other hand I do like x-mas brews. I just have no idea how much I would have to add for 1.5 kilos of ground malt.

I have ground malt that I bought from natural foods shop that seems somewhat toasted, and have no way of knowing what kind of malt it is. It is probably a denatured malt, but suppose I wanted to use this malt to make a mash, could I add an enzyme (such as alpha galactosidase, which you can get...

Well it just seems that some of the other forum members don't understand that we are trying to make a malt mash instead of using malt extract. It's impossible to get malt extract around here (southern Spain), there aren't any homebrew stores because homebrew is not a thing they generally do in...

After some tweaking, and comparing to other similar recipes, I am considering doing an 10 liter batch (2.5 gallons) of something like: -make a mash of malted barley (1 kilo) and yellow corn (250 grams, flaked and boiled already) in about 2 liters of water, cooking at 65ºC for an hour. -move...

The recipe I posted had malted barley (though I only cited barley), sugar, water, hops, and yeast. What are you talking about

Actually I have ground malt. I assumed that the recipe required malted barley, which would mean making a mash (which seems to be the first part of the recipe, though the times are off). If I only had the barley, in grain, I would have to germinate it first.

Actually I am currently living in Spain, so I have to make do with what I can find at health and natural food stores. Though I will look at the kits and see if I can fix this situation a little.

And as far as I can tell, the only major difference in ingredients between this recipe and other simple ones is that the others use malt extract instead of grain barley (which would need to be germinated and mashed before the process begins). As for the technique, the technique in the original...

If I wrote in this forum it is because I had doubts about the recipe. It was the simplest recipe we found, and having no experience in making beer we couldn't possibly know that it wasn't right. There are other beer recipes and obviously I had googled them before, but you have to agree that...

If I wrote in this forum it is because I had doubts about the recipe. It was the simplest recipe we found, and having no experience in making beer we couldn't possibly know that it wasn't right. There are other beer recipes and obviously I had googled them before, but you have to agree that...

Any improvements on this?

This was the response I got from a different forum: In a stainless steel pot, soak 250 grams of yellow corn and 500 grams of barley in 10 liters of water (good spring water quality) for four hours. Merely soaking it will do you little good, it would need to be mashed at 150 degrees...

Yooper: thanks for the advice. I'll look into it. Golddiggie: I was under the impression that this was the "Beginners Beer Brewing Forum," and while I do understand that there are certain guidelines you have to follow to make a beer, I do not believe that you have to study and memorize a series...

What we wanted to try was a simple recipe. So telling me that "it's wrong, try again" doesn't tell me what is wrong with the ingredients, the quantities, the times, or the techniques. It is simply being unhelpful, while at the same time telling me to look somewhere else for a start. Might as...

If the recipe is so wrong then, how would you make it better?

This is very helpful.