How to Use Grits or Cornmeal to Make Beer
Use cornmeal or grits to make beer. Cornmeal or grits makes sweet tasting lagers. Corn is also cheaper than malted barley and a good adjunct for light beers. It can be used as your mash from corn flour, corn grits, or cornmeal. You can make beer with cornmeal or grits, but you need to mash it well. This is also know as brewing with a cereal mash. Making beer with cornmeal can give your bear a nice light taste. Don't be intimidated by making the cereal mash. Does this Spark an idea?
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Things You'll Need
- Dry Yeast 1 packet
- Dry Malt Extract 24 ounces
- Carapils Malt 10 ounces
- Malt Extract 64 ounces
- Crystal Malt 10L 6 ounces
- Cornmeal 8 ounces
- Hops 4.7% Alpha 1 ounce
- Corn Sugar for priming 1/2 cup
- Irish moss
Instructions
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Make Corn Meal Beer
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Smash up the crystal malts and carapils. Pour in 1 gallon of water for about 60 minutes. Strain and add the wort to your pot.
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Add about 1 to 1 1/2 gallons of water to the pot. Turn up the heat, and add the malt extract and the dry malt extract to the pot slowly. Stir constantly while pouring in the malt, otherwise it will burn and still to the bottom of the pot. Stir until the wort begins to boil.
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Pour in the cornmeal slowly and stir. Add the hops and boil for 45 minutes. Add Irish moss and boil for another 15 minutes.
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Remove the wort from the heat after 60 minutes and let it cool down. Pour 1 gallon of clean water to the fermenter and add the wort. Keep adding more water to the wort until it makes 4 gallons. Make it soupy, and keep the cornmeal mash thin.
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Put in your yeast at the wort temperature of 98 degrees F.
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Allow the wort to ferment for about a week. Prepare your bottles and make your priming sugar. Bottle your beer. Let the beer age for about two weeks or longer before sampling.
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Tips & Warnings
Boil until the mash breaks down and coats the spoon.
Drink responsibly and enjoy your home-brewed beer.
Be careful not to burn the cornmeal.
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