barley for home brewing

[derbyGraham]

Hi
Sorry for trespassing on your land but I wanted to ask a question. In short I am an allotment holder who wants to grow a small amount of barley to turn into beer. I wanted to ask for advise on where I can buy a small amount of grain and what would be the best thing to ask for.

very best regards
Graham

 

[Dry Rot]

Do a search on Yell.com and find your nearest malster, they will probably sell you a bag of malt for not a lot of money. Unless you want to do the job yourself, of course. In that case, search on agricultural merchants where you can probably buy a bag of barley "for your hens".

Here's one:

Bairds Malt - Our Locations page

Bairds Malt - Our Locations page

www.bairds-malt.co.uk

 

[Yale]

Assume it would need to be a malting variety,then it would need to be malted!

An awful lot of faffing around.

By what our local brewer uses id say you need about 100grammes of grain per litre,maybe a bit less.

I can see why you want to do it start to finish however maybe the variables are a little too variable.

 

[derbyGraham]

Him Many thanks for the replies so far. Good advise.
I can see there will be a lot of faffing around with doing it myself. I am mainly interested in the experience rather than the end result. On my plot I have around 12 seyval blanc vines that I use to turn in to wine. Lots of faffing around but fun to turn the grapes into wine.
I once made an apple press which prompted my allotment friend to ask why I didn't just buy one. I replied that in that case I may as well just buy the cider from Tesco.
Life is all about the journey not the destination because after the journey is death.