Crazy/stupid/against god etc.

[RachmaelBenApplebaum]

So, I know there's some stuff floating around these boards about doing a 100% oat malt brew. Now, I don't have malted oats, and forgive me for this, but I was thinking of groats, gelatinizing them, and then hitting them with amylase enzyme to convert it, sparge, boil, hop lightly, and ferment it. I imagine it would come out the color of dishwater/milk and be strangely slimy with some alcohol content. Say a 2-gallon batch wouldn't be so bad, and if it's palatable there's enough to share Sick? Crazy? Pointless? All of the above? Throw in minute rice? Sweet potatoes? Carrots? Brown sugar? Berries/fruits(bananas?)? Tamari at bottling?

Internet! Do your job!

 

[sptaylor70]

Have you tried a half-and-half malted barley and oats/groats brew? Might let you test the waters, so to speak, before fully committing to the heresy.

 

[RachmaelBenApplebaum]

I've thrown oats into a mash, and they do gret and all, but I wanna whip up something you dare people to drink and maybe they'll like it. I'f you're gonna push the envelope, sh** or get off the pot!

 

[badlee]

Nothing could be more in the true spirit of homebrew.
This from a bloke who has brewed with 100% home malted corn AND even brewed with nothing but Korean roasted barley.
I think you should add summer berries of some sort with a stick or two of cinnamon.

 

[Beernik]

Mmmm.... Fermented porridge. I am symontaneously intrigued and grossed out.

 

[frazier]

Mmmm.... Fermented porridge.

Well, that's pretty much what beer is!

 

[Beernik]

It's what beer was 5000 years ago. It's not what beer is today.

 

[RachmaelBenApplebaum]

Beer 5000 years ago is fine, gonna man up and down some ancient brew! I think in my down time I'm gonna make some fermented porridge, with pictures! Gimme like 2 days! I also have a 1/2 gallon batch of partigyle that I just exposed to air and it started fermenting after about 4 days that actually smells acceptable. So berries and cinnamon, maybe brown sugar, some vanilla extract, and bread yeast/us-05, wild ambient yeast in the air of my house that seems to be a top fermenting mutant of some variety. Also thinking Belle Saison would be a nice touch if fermented hot to push the esters. You guys/gals/albino shapeshifting lizard B****es are an inspiration!

 

[tsl346]

Go for it. You might not try to call it beer but what's life without a little experimentation.

 

[badlee]

you make sure and tell us if it was on the drinkable side or not

 

[RachmaelBenApplebaum]

I'll get into it tomorrow, gonna dump some stuff and start off on my base for a sherry mead so I'll hit this up too, recipe, pics & all. MY WILL BE DONE!