Get advice on making beer from raw ingredients (malt, hops, water and yeast)
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tubby_shaw
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by tubby_shaw » Tue Mar 13, 2007 1:31 pm
Ok I know that in an ideal world we would brew only using the finest malts but ...............
Some types of beer need that malty flavour thinning out, so...
Which is, in your opinion, the lesser of two evils ?
Flaked rice in the mash
White cane sugar in the copper
I use both at the moment
But now I have a cheap and plentiful supply of flaked rice I will be using it to replace the white sugar that I had used in the past
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oblivious
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by oblivious » Tue Mar 13, 2007 1:37 pm
You can make a fine triple with white sugar
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deadlydes
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by deadlydes » Tue Mar 13, 2007 2:46 pm
i wont vote as i havent used sugar since mashing and have only used rice once but where have you found a cheap source of flaked rice? as i am after some
cheers
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tubby_shaw
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by tubby_shaw » Tue Mar 13, 2007 3:02 pm
Local Tesco Hypermarket.
It's with the ethnic foods, it's made by Fudco and it's called Pawa medium rice flakes and is sold by the kilo for around the £1.30 mark.
If you can't source it there try your local Indian supermarket
It's on special in my local Tesco 3kg for £2.98
Last edited by tubby_shaw on Tue Mar 13, 2007 4:52 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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steve_flack
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by steve_flack » Tue Mar 13, 2007 3:02 pm
Neither are evil...where's my button?
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tubby_shaw
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by tubby_shaw » Tue Mar 13, 2007 3:05 pm
steve_flack wrote:Neither are evil...where's my button?
Unfortunately I missed it out on the first post
When I went back to edit the post and put it in, someone had already voted, so I couldn't change it
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mysterio
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by mysterio » Tue Mar 13, 2007 3:35 pm
I have no problems using either. I will invariably use corn sugar more often though.
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SteveD
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by SteveD » Tue Mar 13, 2007 7:33 pm
tubby_shaw wrote:Local Tesco Hypermarket.
It's with the ethnic foods, it's made by Fudco and it's called Pawa medium rice flakes and is sold by the kilo for around the £1.30 mark.
If you can't source it there try your local Indian supermarket
It's on special in my local Tesco 3kg for £2.98
Aaaarrrrrrrgh! The Budweiser grist! The Budweiser grist! Make it stop! Take it away! It hurts! It hurts! Aaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh!
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tubby_shaw
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by tubby_shaw » Tue Mar 13, 2007 8:03 pm
SteveD wrote:tubby_shaw wrote:Local Tesco Hypermarket.
It's with the ethnic foods, it's made by Fudco and it's called Pawa medium rice flakes and is sold by the kilo for around the £1.30 mark.
If you can't source it there try your local Indian supermarket
It's on special in my local Tesco 3kg for £2.98
Aaaarrrrrrrgh! The Budweiser grist! The Budweiser grist! Make it stop! Take it away! It hurts! It hurts! Aaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh!
I'll put you down as a sugar man Steve
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SteveD
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by SteveD » Tue Mar 13, 2007 8:19 pm
Actually, I tend to be an all malt man, which was why I couldn't respond to the survey. I've not used any sugar in a recipe since 11th Oct 1998 when 681g of Gale's Honey made its way into 'Pansplatter', a recipe of my own devising. Well, no commercail brew would be called that, would it!
I like malt
Still, variety is the spice so they say, and if you like to add adjuncts to get the flavour you want , then that's cool. T'would be a dull place if we all made the same stuff!
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BigEd
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by BigEd » Wed Mar 14, 2007 10:41 pm
There's nothing wrong with a judicious use of an adjunct in the right recipe. Just be sure to keep the quantity at a level where it won't interfere with body and flavor. I have never used rice although I sometimes add a bit of flaked maize to certain brews. I recently used sugar for the first time in many years when making the Bateman's XXXB recipe here at the forum. It worked so well I also used a dose of sugar in a 19th Century IPA recipe.
