Flaked Rye

[MyQul]

Is there any use for flaked rye in brewing? After @gunge 's posts about using corn flakes and barley flakes from holland and barrett I had I look in there today to see what they sold. I noticed they rye flakes as well as a barley flakes

 

[Robin54]

Is there any use for flaked rye in brewing? After @gunge 's posts about using corn flakes and barley flakes from holland and barrett I had I look in there today to see what they sold. I noticed they rye flakes as well as a barley flakes

don't forget that also sell LME in various sizes, and you can get a points card which with their various discounts will often give you a 25% discount:thumb:

 

[Ajhutch]

I did a search and quite a bit came up on the American forums. The short answer seems to be yes. It won't have much/any diastatic power but there seems to be a view that it will give a stronger earthy/spicy rye flavour than rye malt. I've only used rye malt once, in an IPA with mainly dank/resinous hops and I really enjoyed it as an alternative to the juicy fruit IPA style, so I imagine flaked rye would have worked there too.

 

[MyQul]

I did a search and quite a bit came up on the American forums. The short answer seems to be yes. It won't have much/any diastatic power but there seems to be a view that it will give a stronger earthy/spicy rye flavour than rye malt. I've only used rye malt once, in an IPA with mainly dank/resinous hops and I really enjoyed it as an alternative to the juicy fruit IPA style, so I imagine flaked rye would have worked there too.

Thanks for that. I'm not much of an IPA fan but I could probably put it in some sort of pale ale. It would defiantely worth a punt in a 5L stove topper

 

[Ajhutch]

Definitely. I think you'd get a bit of flavour and some body from it so would do well as an experimental alternative in pretty much any malt forward ale


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[Clint]

M....would that be English or American style ipa?

 

[MyQul]

M....would that be English or American style ipa?

Doesnt matter. The level of bitterness in both is too high for me

 

[Gerryjo]

Is there any use for flaked rye in brewing? After @gunge 's posts about using corn flakes and barley flakes from holland and barrett I had I look in there today to see what they sold. I noticed they rye flakes as well as a barley flakes

Hmmmmm interesting as I purchased rye malt a few weeks ago so as to try and clone the Shipyard Rye Pale Ale.May see if our local H&B stock it.

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[Simonh82]

Watch out, if these flaked cereals are sold as breakfast cereals then they could be fortified with iron. At a meeting of my local HB club they discussed brewing with a variety of breakfast cereals and said that they all ended up with a very strong metallic taste to them after fermentation.

They were using the cereals to make up about half of the grist so a smaller quantity may not be as bad but they said that the beers were basically undrinkable.

 

[Gerryjo]

Watch out, if these flaked cereals are sold as breakfast cereals then they could be fortified with iron. At a meeting of my local HB club they discussed brewing with a variety of breakfast cereals and said that they all ended up with a very strong metallic taste to them after fermentation.

They were using the cereals to make up about half of the grist so a smaller quantity may not be as bad but they said that the beers were basically undrinkable.

Were these from Holland and Barrett?

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[MyQul]

Were these from Holland and Barrett?

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I think the H&B cereals are addative free (I was looking at their cornflakes the other day)

 

[Gerryjo]

I think the H&B cereals are addative free (I was looking at their cornflakes the other day)

That's exactly what I thought with them being a health food shop.Needs further investigation me thinks.

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[Gerryjo]

Just had a look on their website and no iron showing up at all.

 

[BeerCat]

Watch out, if these flaked cereals are sold as breakfast cereals then they could be fortified with iron. At a meeting of my local HB club they discussed brewing with a variety of breakfast cereals and said that they all ended up with a very strong metallic taste to them after fermentation.

They were using the cereals to make up about half of the grist so a smaller quantity may not be as bad but they said that the beers were basically undrinkable.

"Possibly not a bio available form of iron".
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[MyQul]

That's exactly what I thought with them being a health food shop.Needs further investigation me thinks.

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Not sure if you have Waitrose in NI but I was in their today getting a free coffee so I had a look to see what sort of cornflakes they do, and the sold addative free corn flakes in there. Try whatever the upmarket supermaket is in NI and I bet they have some hippy cornflakes in there too

 

[Gerryjo]

Not sure if you have Waitrose in NI but I was in their today getting a free coffee so I had a look to see what sort of cornflakes they do, and the sold addative free corn flakes in there. Try whatever the upmarket supermaket is in NI and I bet they have some hippy cornflakes in there too

The hippiest would be M&S foods and it's down the road so shall give it a try.Cheers.

Gerry

 

[Clint]

..what he really means are hipster cornflakes! They are very trendy at £85 for 250g....

 

[MyQul]

@gerryjo I've also discoed rice crispies can be used in brewing. Puffed rice is essentially the same as torrified rice flakes, which do the same thing in a beer as flaked maize. You'll want the stuff from the hippy shop again rather than kellogs

 

[Gerryjo]

@gerryjo I've also discoed rice crispies can be used in brewing. Puffed rice is essentially the same as torrified rice flakes, which do the same thing in a beer as flaked maize. You'll want the stuff from the hippy shop again rather than kellogs

Hi fantastic as the should open the doors to a few test brews.Maybe @Clint can join in with his handbag and highheels......

Gerry

 

[serum]

I've used flaked Rye from a health food shop in a Rye saison and it came out nice. The recipe had 1.5 kilos of malted Rye but I used 500g flaked and 1kg malted.

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