Using Polenta as a substitute for flaked corn

[lordstilton]

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.

[DEMPSEY]

What are you using it for,a Mexican style beer no

[lordstilton]

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

[irish_goat]

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.

[lordstilton]

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

[TheSumOfAllBeers]

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.

[DEMPSEY]

We are talking about flaked Maize i.e. corn flakes are we not or is there some other type

[lordstilton]

Didn't Bren Murphy use corn flakes in his Harp clone?? Don't know how that one panned out in the end