Wheat beer

[Estrider03]

Alright ladies and gents, since it is now harvest time I have available to me some raw wheat. I would like to make a beer from this but am at a bit of a loss trying to figure out how to do it. I have played with recipes online and can't seem to find one that will accommodate my thoughts. Please let me know if you have tried this or have a recipe anything would help!

 

[TopherM]

You can't just use raw wheat right off the stalk. You have to malt the wheat first so that there are starches available for the enzymes to turn to sugars. I've never attempted malting myself, so I'm not sure if it's difficult or not:

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[unionrdr]

After it sprouts those two lil hairs,you have to roast it in an oven. Someone on here had a thread about temps & times. Idk off the top of my head. Seems to me they had to get rid of those lil hair root things sticking out of the kernals as well?...

 

[stpug]

You could always cereal mash the raw wheat and then do a saccrafication rest with some 6-row malt for the conversion enzymes. You'd need about 1 lb 6-row per 3 lbs raw wheat for proper conversion. Cereal mashing is just the process of breaking down and opening up the starches in the wheat so that the conversion enzymes can get easy access to them. It's done on a stove where the milled wheat and water are brought to a couple temperature rests and finally to a boil for many minutes (30-60min) until you reach a gooey consistency, at which point it's added to a main mash with 6-row for full conversion. It takes more time than a simple single step mash but is not too hard by any means.

Or like unionrdr said you can malt it and dry it, and then use it outright without any base malt.

 

[unionrdr]

Try searching for the thread about malting. That should give some ideas on how to procede.