Magic hat (a brewery from my homestate) made a cucumber beer, and it was the lost horrible thing I've ever drank.
Pasta, I make what I call spaghetti wheat beer, I use about 30 - 40% thin spaghetti, or angel hair pasta in the mash. Try it, you'll be surprised! Pasta is 100% wheat, and makes a pretty tasty adjunct IME, cook the hell out of the pasta before mashing, and add all of the pasta water as well to the mash. Typically I strike low, then the addition of 4 lbs of hot pasta will bring up the mash temp considerably, then add heat to hit the low 150's.
i used graham crackers in a beer. Couldn't taste them at all but they gave me head retention like I've never seen before. Sounded like rice crispy's when the bubbles would pop was kinda funny.![]()
Your spaghetti wheat beer sounds interesting, may have to play with that this summer. Is the flavor profile similar to a regular wheat?
Lol that's awesome! I'd love to get some Graham cracker flavor into a beer though, do you think you'd just need more? Or how would we go about it?
possibly I used 2 sleeves out of a box of 3 I believe. so I guess maybe a box or box and half for starters if I was to try to brew it again. My tobrew list is pretty backlogged currently however. But I just crushed them and threw them in the mash. So maybe a flameout edition of powdered Graham crackers? i'd start with at least 2-3 boxes. like I said I used 2/3 a box when I did mine and I believe that was only a 2.5gallon batch and like I said I really didn't taste them at all.
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or I just saw graham cracker extract on a quick google search, which would probably be a quicker easier way.
What style was it? I've been thinking about a Graham cracker Porter when I get around to brew something not Belgian.
I haven't done it yet, but I'm researching the use of potatoes in a beer. During WWII potatoes were used in place of corn due to shortages. As I understand it the add no flavor, just some additional fermentables.
https://www.homebrewersassociation.org/recipe/beer-of-the-week-potato-vacation-beer/Following Link said:Named after a traditional, week-long break from school and work for potato harvesting in Germany, Potato Vacation Beer, or Kartoffelferienbier, is a funky ale that lives outside the realm of classic styles.
Made a lemongrass and peach ipa. Ended up keeping it as my regular summer brew.
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I should brew it and sell it at Phish shows and call it, "Hippy Breath."
Recipe? That sounds fantastic!
So I whipped this up with a slight (actually major come to think of it) change in that I used some sweet potatoes and T58 that I had on hand for some reason. Also a little lighter on the colour on account of a Vienna malt being used, I had forgotten to pick up the munich. A little disappointing, this is like a slightly spiced adjunct lager. A little more body, but that's about it. No doubt that's from the T58.https://www.homebrewersassociation.org/recipe/beer-of-the-week-potato-vacation-beer/
Come to think of it, I have a bag of potatoes that just hasn't been getting eaten fast enough. This might be an ideal way to get rid of them in a productive fashion.
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