Areet

[John_Henry]

Areet. Just introducing myself. I just started all grain the other week, and went the whole hog with malting my own barley!, (probably won't bother again) Now on my third brew. Hoping to learn a thing or two off of you chaps. Cheers

 

[adrianmole72]

Hello, and welcome ! :

Stephen

 

[micmacmoc]

blimey! malting! bet that took some complicated research. Well done!

 

[John_Henry]

Cheers chaps. No complicated research, but over did it a bit with 7kg, and struggled to maintain temperature in the chuffing Aga. Good experience though!...

 

[Sean_Mc]

Welcome to the forum JH :

And thanks for all the hard work at LFC :clap:

 

[31bb3]

Welcome to the forum

 

[Dronfieldbrewer]

reeeet ahhh!!

welcome to t'madhouse

 

[John_Henry]

Cheers

 

[mickeyt69]

Alreet JH welcome andwelcome to the darkside

 

[John_Henry]

Cheers for the warm welcome

 

[robsan77]

you'll have a reet time here. : welcome

 

[fran]

welcome and if your head ever feels like its about to explode, dont worry, its just the home brew doing its job :drunk:

 

[adirob]

welcome and nice work.
i like that you went the whole hog with malting your own!

im sure its just a complete ball ache but i would be interested to know how you did it.

Ade O

 

[John_Henry]

welcome and nice work.
i like that you went the whole hog with malting your own!

im sure its just a complete ball ache but i would be interested to know how you did it.

Ade O

Hello Mate,

I got the idea for malting from good old John Seymour and his book on self sufficiency. Whilst it was a ball ache Im thinking of doing another load this week, I swore I wouldn't, but I think Im ready for another pop. One of the problems I had was the amount, I did 7kg, naively thinking Id end up with 7kg of Malt, almost as soon as I'd started I realized the error of my ways. Trying to dry over 7kg of chitted barley at under 60 in an aga is no mean feat. There's quite a lot of links on the web and some vids on youtub. Its really quite easy, and quicker than I thought, but I certainly had some unforeseen obstacles that wont be easily overcome. The main turn off for me was that a sack of Barley costs about £10, and a sack of malted costs about £25, so for the effort Im not sure its worth it. Good fun though. Let me know if you need any help and I'll do my best. Ta