malt rhyzomes

[DEMPSEY]

I was down at the malting company of Ireland and managed to get some malt rhyzomes. We could maybe start to grow some and produce our own malted barley.

[DEMPSEY]

here is another picture,

[johnrm]

That just looks like germinated barley

[Ciderhead]

he dries it rolls and smokes it

[Ciderhead]

No doubt there will be a write up by Mr Tub, but it took all my strength to stop Tube and Dempsey stripping and jumping in to the silos to do the breast stroke 

[LordEoin]

I'm confused...
Why not just plant barley?
Doesn't it produce barley in the first season from seed anyway?

edit: a quick googling says that 20' by 20' will give you about 17lbs of barley. source. not sure how reliable that is, but wouldn't it make more sense to just ask a farmer for a few sacks of barley?

[JimmyM]

Ah yeah but - wouldnt it also be great to say you GREW your own beer!!

Imagine it around the table
Guest: "Spuds are nice!"
Me: "Yeah grew them out the back there, along with the carrots the peas n the onions"

Guest: "Fair play... Jaysus that beer is nice!"
Me: "Yeay i grew that too, that yellow area is barley and that beanstalk is hops!!"

Guest: "Thats great... And the burgers, amazing!"
Me: "See the empty stables out there..."

[JimmyM]

TBH - Im still not sure whether someone is pulling my leg or not.

So what? Dempsey gives me a load of "rhizomes" (after he answers my pm of course) and i walk around dropping them and i end up with a field full of barley?
Then I have to contend with the random output i will get when attempting to malt them.

To echo previous posts - what's so special about them? Is there a hen layng golden eggs at the top?
Surely theyre just seeds that can be got anywhere - either way id be interested, but it seems like a lot of work (and space needed) for the output, id have to send them to school down the country - the main thing to take from it, for me, is just the accolade of growing your own beer.

[Damo]

Hmm..

I guess were not as thick as we look!

In all fairness, if you were to get some malt tap roots I'd be up for a few.

Edit:
Sorry Jimmy

[DEMPSEY]

Well you have heard of jack and the beanstalk,his was magic.