Bamboo Beer

[5mooth0perator]

Sorry to bump an old thread, but my neibors have an escaped bamboo grove. The young spring shoots which we preserve and stir fry, the key is they have to be heated to denature certain toxins, which is only specialists like pandas eat the stuff. The older culms I use for projects. For some of my projects, I have heat treated the bamboo, to stabilize the materials, I do this by baking or direct flame on the bayou burner. I have noticed that during the baking the bamboo smells really good almost like nag champs incense. Anyway, I got to thinking about it and well bamboo and sugar cane not too different. Maybe next spring, I'll try a bamboo brew. I think I would use a young culms that are relatively soft, kind of like germinated grains. Maybe roast some.

 

[5mooth0perator]

An analysis of sugar content in bamboo shoots:
http://hortsci.ashspublications.org/content/44/7/1941.full

A discussion of sugar/ethanol extraction:
https://books.google.com/books?id=l...AQgfMAM#v=onepage&q=bamboo culm sugar&f=false

 

[bucketnative]

The question is where does one get bamboo leaf extract?

Isn't that a fancy way of saying panda poop?