Malting Amaranth and Sorghum

[Lufah]

Anyone ever done it? I have a book that tells how to, but seeing if anyone has any experiance. I plan on harvesting the rest in the next few days and then letting it dry for a couple weeks while I'm on vacation. I'll try malting sometime after I get home.

Amaranth




Sorghum




Travis

[jaydub]

Any luck with the Amaranth? You've piqued my curiousity about the grain. I'd think malting it successfully would be quite a challenge. How about using it unmalted in a mash? I suppose you'll need to crack it though - they're pretty small seeds, will a standard grain mill do the trick?

[Lufah]

I don't know yet. I haven't had time to try it. I should be able to get to it in the next couple of weeks. I'll let you know how it goes.

Travis

[Lufah]

I got started with a small test batch for the sorghum. It's 1.5oz of grain. I will let it soak for 18 hours then drain and rinse with cool water every 8 hours. Hopefully it will sprout in two or three days.





Travis

[jaydub]

Is there a procedure you're following for this, or are you winging it?

[Lufah]

I'm going on (not so good) instructions from this book.



Sorghum is going good. I'll try to get pics up in a little while.

Travis

[Lufah]

Sorry it took me so long with the pictures. It's day 9 of rinsing the grain. It took a lot longer to get germination than the book said it would. I think that is because I harvested the sorghum to early. I've got about 50% of them sprounting right now and I will try kilning them in a day or so.




Travis