Comment on using regular agricultural barley for making malt
nope@sopuli.xyz 1 week agothanks for the info, i really appreciate it. i think i’ll read up on barley in general and get more information. i may be able to find out what specific strain he has growing. i didn’t even think about mold/ergot.
it’s not really about the money, it’s really about making a beer with what you have (of course i don’t have hops, but that could be arranged maybe next year i guess). and a beer made from his barley would be a great gift for him i guess.
yes, i know i’ll have to malt the barley first, i watched a video about that from Adam Ragusea on yt.
ikidd@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Well, let me know if you have any questions about barley and I’ll see if I can help. I have 30,000 bushels of it sitting in bins behind the house right now.
nope@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
Sure, thanks! Thats a lot of barley :))
leds@feddit.dk 6 days ago
Do you use any automatic sorting to get rid of the bed kernels? I’m wondering if industrial high speed image detection sorting machines is something you can DIY
ikidd@lemmy.world 6 days ago
I used a compressed air blowgun, the venturi style, and some screens I use to clean grain for grading and measuring. It seemed with some practice I could get it to mostly blow the light, unfilled, and mildewed kernels out, and the ergot tended to gather at the bottom. But the black ones are easy enough to see and pick out. You can screen the rest out after malting because they won’t have a cotyledon and will fall through larger screens along with other ungerminated seeds.
leds@feddit.dk 5 days ago
I’d love a tabletob machine learning sorter, manually sort a bunch and tell it which are bad and which are good and then let it sort the rest.