Anyone Eating Grains Prior to Brewing?

[Derek1985]

I've taken to visiting the HBS prior to brewing or test mashing and buying small amounts of the grains I plan to brew with and eating them over the course of a week.

Some times I eat them raw as a snack, sometimes with a little milk in the morning like granola.

I like getting to taste the grains prior and on a few occasions I changed some of the malt for the recipe because of it.

Anyone else try this?

 

[joshesmusica]

hell yeah!

minus the whole milk over a week thing...

in fact, when i needed to buy some acidulated malt, my wife bought another kilo to snack on after tasting it in the lhbs!

tasting the grains is a decent way of knowing what you're getting out of the final product.

 

[Teromous]

I don't graze on grains throughout the week or anything but I taste the grains before I start milling, especially if it is a grain that I haven't used or tasted before.

 

[Derek1985]

hell yeah!

minus the whole milk over a week thing...

Ha! I started doing it when I bought some Briess Pilsner and Briess Pale mmalt. It tasted so damn good I started just buying a half pound of each and bringing it to work!

 

[MaxStout]

I like to chomp on a few grains before brewing to see if they taste fresh. This has the added bonus of providing a few extra butt-scratchers for my diet. Fiber!

 

[dryboroughbrewing]

Everytime I brew I taste a little bit of everything just to make sure it all still seems fresh. (plus it's pretty tasty)

 

[1977Brewer]

I've started just giving my son a cup full on brew day, and I'm wondering how much my efficiency suffers due to my millsnacking.

 

[Natdavis777]

I snacked on some Golden Promise earlier...

 

[dpeters]

My wife and I just came back from a walk and we went into a farmers field to sample some of the grains that were about to be harvested. We think it was wheat. I always sample my grain before I grind it but I never thought of eating it as a snack but it might make a good addition to the granola my wife makes.

 

[djonesax]

I did this for the first time in the LHBS last weekend. I was considering a new grain and the guy said, here try it. My first though was damn this is pretty good, and then I tried some others! I had tried it before but only after milling when it was all mixed together.

David

 

[MaxStout]

I found that Special B tastes just like Grape Nuts. But with the price of grain shooting sky-high around here ($2.72/lb. for specialty malts at my LHBS), I'll keep eating Grape Nuts for breakfast.

 

[Psylocide]

I like the darker roasted grains, but yeah... always gotta grab a couple while milling.

 

[joshesmusica]

Seriously you like sour candy but don't want all the sugar? Get you some acidulated malt!