stone ground corn meal in beer recipe?

[backphish]

I just watched the third episode of Brew Dogs and they included stone ground corn meal in the beer they made for that episode (making the most "American" beer they could, they went with a colonial era inspired recipe that had pilsner case malt, coffee malt, molasses and corn meal added to the mash). I'm interested in giving it a try because of the unique flavors they mentioned that corn meal could bring to the beer as the process of stone grinding the corn slightly roasted the meal.

Has anyone out there used stone ground corn meal before?

would you just substitute the corn meal for flaked corn in the same amount by % in the recipe? Flaked corn adds sugars but usually not flavor unless you really overdo it.

flaked corn is usually no more than 10-15% of the total grain bill in most recipes I've seen.

thoughts anyone?

 

[Cposten]

Know this is a bit late but ive used stone ground in a couple beers. Most recently an american lager for the up coming golf season. I do swap out the flaked for it. Its definately a different flavor but nothing real crazy. Biggest difference ive noticed between the 2 is that A: stone ground is much cheaper than flaked from a HBS. And, 3 or 4 or whatever number were on: the cornmeal is quite small so be prepared to vorlof a sh!t load and hope your wort chiller can cool quick enough to have the particles that get through settle out.

Id say give it a try. Its what homebrewin is all about.

P.s. the lager has a strong corn taste to it but used 2lbs for the whole batch. Damn god so far and the lagering just started yesterday.

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