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Title: Using Polenta as a substitute for flaked corn
Post by: lordstilton on January 13, 2014, 11:16:45 AM
Anyone have any experience of this? I've read a few articles now saying grits is a good substitute if you do a cereal mash.
Title: Re: Using Polenta as a substitute for flaked corn
Post by: DEMPSEY on January 13, 2014, 11:23:54 AM
What are you using it for,a Mexican style beer no :)
Title: Re: Using Polenta as a substitute for flaked corn
Post by: lordstilton on January 13, 2014, 11:47:49 AM
Yes Dempsey...A few of the lads I work with got a taste for DOS XX when they were in the states and can't get it here...Thought I'd try and replicate it
Title: Re: Using Polenta as a substitute for flaked corn
Post by: irish_goat on January 13, 2014, 12:00:15 PM
Quote from: lordstilton on January 13, 2014, 11:47:49 AM
Yes Dempsey...A few of the lads I work with got a taste for DOS XX when they were in the states and can't get it here...Thought I'd try and replicate it

You can get Dos XX in Cortina's Mexican in Dundrum, I've never seen it anywhere else here but someone must be importing it.
Title: Re: Using Polenta as a substitute for flaked corn
Post by: lordstilton on January 13, 2014, 12:01:34 PM
Thanks Irish_goat...they found a supervalu in wexford doing it too and they did a run...I'm interested in seeing if I can replicate it myself
Title: Re: Using Polenta as a substitute for flaked corn
Post by: TheSumOfAllBeers on January 13, 2014, 01:08:35 PM
Can you not get flaked corn?

I have used supermarket corn products, like ground corn meal, and I think you have to be a bit careful with it. I had a lot of starch haze (which may have come from the *rice* I used with the corn). I got advice that the corn should be heated seperately or treated seperately to the mash before being added in.

You might also want to be ruthless about checking for starch conversion.

I am curious about making corn beers. Mostly it gets a bad rap (cheap adjunct in commercial swill, or as an off-aroma).

I would like to taste an example of it done well. Mexican food is a regular feature of our hosting, and adding a good corn based beer to the mix would be really cool.
Title: Re: Using Polenta as a substitute for flaked corn
Post by: DEMPSEY on January 13, 2014, 02:11:32 PM
We are talking about flaked Maize i.e. corn flakes are we not or is there some other type :-\
Title: Re: Using Polenta as a substitute for flaked corn
Post by: lordstilton on January 13, 2014, 03:06:33 PM
Didn't Bren Murphy use corn flakes in his Harp clone?? Don't know how that one panned out in the end