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I bough several kilo's of unmalted barley and am going to malt it myself !
Now has anyone had any experience in using 100 % green malt? I have read here on the site that off-flavours can occor. The way I read this is that it might, but how often does it? And can this be circumvented ?
Anyway, if anybody has some experience with this I would be glas to hear about it !
Now has anyone had any experience in using 100 % green malt? I have read here on the site that off-flavours can occor. The way I read this is that it might, but how often does it? And can this be circumvented ?
Anyway, if anybody has some experience with this I would be glas to hear about it !
green malt (which I define as fresh sprouted grain which had not been dried) doesn't so much cause off flavors as create a distinctive flavor which some may find undesirable.
I happen to like it.
drying and degerming your malt will avoid this completely.
I'd imagine the degerming the wet green malt will also reduce the flavor a bit but it would be an insanely dull task.
I happen to like it.
drying and degerming your malt will avoid this completely.
I'd imagine the degerming the wet green malt will also reduce the flavor a bit but it would be an insanely dull task.
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Before I try a batch, could you perhaps give a small description of the taste I can espect ..... I would imagine it would give a sort of grassy flavour, you know the taste you get when you chew the end of a grass stem (that what the sprouted stem of the malt tastes like anyway).Fourway wrote:green malt (which I define as fresh sprouted grain which had not been dried) doesn't so much cause off flavors as create a distinctive flavor which some may find undesirable.
I happen to like it.
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Re: green malt
I've been thinking of going back to basics with my original recipe using green malt but still haven't really found an adequate method to grist it. Most mills and miners will bind up with it, has anyone used one of them manual wheatgrass juicers as they kind of look like they could work, I see them for sale around here between the $20 to $40 mark
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You can also try roasting steam rolled barley from the feed store, about $20 or less for a 50# sack. I have a thread on it. Works good.
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Re: green malt
My understanding of green malt is malt that has finished curing but hasn't been kilned. So it's dry, but hasn't been subject to the higher temperatures.
When I make malt, I spread it out in the sun to dry for a day. At that point I knock all the dried rootlets off and it's pretty much half cured.
At this point it is pretty dry, but I wouldn't risk putting it through the mill. After a second day in the sun it would probably be good to go.
When I make malt, I spread it out in the sun to dry for a day. At that point I knock all the dried rootlets off and it's pretty much half cured.
At this point it is pretty dry, but I wouldn't risk putting it through the mill. After a second day in the sun it would probably be good to go.
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From what I remember last year when I was looking into it, green malt is un-kilned malt.
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I've always thought of green malt as being grain softened by steeping in water and allowed to germinate but not yet subjected to drying and is full of moisture. That's what our local malt house refers to it. It will have the highest DP as possible as well.
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When I hear green malt, I think of sprouted grain that's fully ish modified and still alive
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Re: green malt
Heres what i used to dothecroweater wrote: ↑Fri Feb 07, 2020 5:12 am I've been thinking of going back to basics with my original recipe using green malt but still haven't really found an adequate method to grist it. Most mills and miners will bind up with it, has anyone used one of them manual wheatgrass juicers as they kind of look like they could work, I see them for sale around here between the $20 to $40 mark
I don'T use it green anymore
Take your bag of malted grain that is still fairly wet
To dry it does not work so good
Then throw the bag in the freezer
Once froze hard procede to grind in corona mill
Only take a small amount at a time so it doesn' t thaw
Once froze it grinds pretty well
With wheat and rye it works real good
Barley has more rootlet that thaw faster
So grinding faster is needed
Just my experience at it
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My Chinese corona mill doesn't like undried malt.
I've even tried freezing wheat and corn, but it still didn't work very good.
If I remember correctly, It did work a little better with unfrozen green rice malt.
I've even tried freezing wheat and corn, but it still didn't work very good.
If I remember correctly, It did work a little better with unfrozen green rice malt.
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Green malt is green still growing malt, it gives a different favour to dried malt. Kiln dried malt like the dark malts are for flavour and generally have DP of sweet jack all.
Previously i grist green malt with a stone but that is a huge amount of work, a meat mincer will bind up and grist mill plates will also gunk up and fail. I do have an antique vegetable mincer that may work but I just thought maybe the wheatgrass juicer would be more efficient, not that I've ever used one.
Previously i grist green malt with a stone but that is a huge amount of work, a meat mincer will bind up and grist mill plates will also gunk up and fail. I do have an antique vegetable mincer that may work but I just thought maybe the wheatgrass juicer would be more efficient, not that I've ever used one.
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Using a wheatgrass juicer might get your "Crocodile Dundee" man card revoked
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Yeah if someone chimes in and says they work well I'd use it but not much chance of it causing me to get into wheatgrass or kale juice
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Yeah if someone chimes in and says they work well I'd use it but not much chance of it causing me to get into wheatgrass or kale juice
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Re: green malt
I tried to use one recently Crow in an attempt to juice Jaboticaba fruit/ berry's for a wash. It didn't end well....but I think I can end up getting it to work with some modification. I have my doubts about one working on grains....even green / wet/ damp grain.
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Okey dokey I reckon you'd be right, I just watched a video "Weston's wheatgrass juicer" and to my thinking if you have it restricted enough to crush the grain it will bind and open it would possibly just push though fairly undamaged. I might have to do a test run on the vegetable mincer and see how own it is
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Get the kids and Suzy on the crank handle , some exercise will be good for them.thecroweater wrote: ↑Sat Feb 08, 2020 1:57 am I might have to do a test run on the vegetable mincer and see how own it is
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I have just made a batch of corn whiskey using green malted maize (corn). I processed 5kg of it through my wife's kitchen blender using the S blade, processing about 0.7kg at a time with enough water to turn it liquid.thecroweater wrote: ↑Fri Feb 07, 2020 5:12 am I've been thinking of going back to basics with my original recipe using green malt but still haven't really found an adequate method to grist it. Most mills and miners will bind up with it, has anyone used one of them manual wheatgrass juicers as they kind of look like they could work, I see them for sale around here between the $20 to $40 mark
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Re: green malt
Got one of them, let us know if it grist enough to mash with.
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Anyone try running green malt through the blue electric mills? They are supposed to be a wet/dry mill.
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Re: green malt
I've heard tell, that a garbage disposable can be used to grind up green malt.
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Re: green malt
I use kitchen rolling pin to smash the green malt, does the job easily.
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I believe a bio electric shredder could be useful for large quantities
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I have it on good authority not to grind green malt in the blue grinders.