[Sca-cooks] Help please...

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach Stefan li Rous:
>Drakey commented:
>>I'm going to try with bean flour in the next week or so...
>>
>>Tonight I make Mung Bean Wine!!!!!
>Oh my. Please let us know how it turns out and whether it is even drinkable.
>For some reason this reminds me of the Mongols and kumiss and how 
>they must have been real desperate out on those steppes for 
>something alcoholic to drink.

Well, Stefan, by way of perspective, my buddy Master Ateno and I 
worked on a March Beer recipe from Gervase Markham a while back, and 
among the various late-season sweep-out-the-grain-barrel odds and 
ends it contains is a goodly amount of white peas, which you mash 
along with the various other grains. We then won a prize with it at a 
local brewing competition, and nobody died from drinking it.

And yes, this is probably a somewhat dilute form of legume to be 
brewing with, when compared to something called mung bean wine, but 
both peas and mung beans contains starches that can be converted to 
fermentables. In theory, it's plenty doable. You just have to learn 
how.

Of the smells produced in the fermentation process, which, as I 
recall in the case of March Beer were fairly... noticeable... I'm not 
qualified to comment, other than to say that all those proteinaceous 
nitrogen atoms have to go somewhere.

Adamantius

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