Cassava Beer

[LuukGx]

Hey guys & gals!

I live & brew in the Caribbean and cassava (here called yucca) is a omnipresent but underutilized crop. I was wondering if anyone has done research into transforming it into a delicious beer? I know SabMiller has Impala beer..

 

[Stuffjoy]

Hey guys & gals!

I live & brew in the Caribbean and cassava (here called yucca) is a omnipresent but underutilized crop. I was wondering if anyone has done research into transforming it into a delicious beer? I know SabMiller has Impala beer..

Greetings, I am also in the Caribbean (Jamaica), and interested in using cassava as my fermentable sugar. Did you manage to come up with a suitable brew?

 

[day_trippr]

From a brief look around there are numerous challenges to using cassava in a high yield fashion, but between pre-cooking and the use of multiple enzymes it apparently verges on practical...

Cheers!

 

[LuukGx]

Greetings, I am also in the Caribbean (Jamaica), and interested in using cassava as my fermentable sugar. Did you manage to come up with a suitable brew?

Haven't gotten to it yet honestly, but based on the little research I did you can make a decent conversion between grinding it fine, cooking it and either split the base between the cassava and malts or using amylase enzymes to kickstart the ferment. Any other cool local ingredients you've used?