Fonio.....interesting article

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It is available from Amazon, marketed as a health food, but presumably would need processing before it could be used in a brew.
 
Just drinking some of this now. From the article and the ingredient list on the can, I believe the fonio is used as an unmalted adjunct, as a replacement (or part replacement) for wheat. The ingredients on the Brooklyn/Brewgooder Fonio Session IPA list the fonio as 4th, behind water, barley, and wheat. It’s a type of millet so might need crushing before adding to a mash.

It’s a nice beer, if you’re into tropical flavours. I’d like to find the hop schedule so as I could see if those flavours are really coming from the fonio or more the hops, but haven’t found it yet.
 
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