Magic hat (a brewery from my homestate) made a cucumber beer, and it was the lost horrible thing I've ever drank.
Pasta, I make what I call spaghetti wheat beer, I use about 30 - 40% thin spaghetti, or angel hair pasta in the mash. Try it, you'll be surprised! Pasta is 100% wheat, and makes a pretty tasty adjunct IME, cook the hell out of the pasta before mashing, and add all of the pasta water as well to the mash. Typically I strike low, then the addition of 4 lbs of hot pasta will bring up the mash temp considerably, then add heat to hit the low 150's.
i used graham crackers in a beer. Couldn't taste them at all but they gave me head retention like I've never seen before. Sounded like rice crispy's when the bubbles would pop was kinda funny.
Your spaghetti wheat beer sounds interesting, may have to play with that this summer. Is the flavor profile similar to a regular wheat?
Lol that's awesome! I'd love to get some Graham cracker flavor into a beer though, do you think you'd just need more? Or how would we go about it?
possibly I used 2 sleeves out of a box of 3 I believe. so I guess maybe a box or box and half for starters if I was to try to brew it again. My tobrew list is pretty backlogged currently however. But I just crushed them and threw them in the mash. So maybe a flameout edition of powdered Graham crackers? i'd start with at least 2-3 boxes. like I said I used 2/3 a box when I did mine and I believe that was only a 2.5gallon batch and like I said I really didn't taste them at all.
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or I just saw graham cracker extract on a quick google search, which would probably be a quicker easier way.
What style was it? I've been thinking about a Graham cracker Porter when I get around to brew something not Belgian.
I haven't done it yet, but I'm researching the use of potatoes in a beer. During WWII potatoes were used in place of corn due to shortages. As I understand it the add no flavor, just some additional fermentables.
https://www.homebrewersassociation.org/recipe/beer-of-the-week-potato-vacation-beer/Following Link said:Named after a traditional, week-long break from school and work for potato harvesting in Germany, Potato Vacation Beer, or Kartoffelferienbier, is a funky ale that lives outside the realm of classic styles.
Made a lemongrass and peach ipa. Ended up keeping it as my regular summer brew.
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I should brew it and sell it at Phish shows and call it, "Hippy Breath."
Recipe? That sounds fantastic!
So I whipped this up with a slight (actually major come to think of it) change in that I used some sweet potatoes and T58 that I had on hand for some reason. Also a little lighter on the colour on account of a Vienna malt being used, I had forgotten to pick up the munich. A little disappointing, this is like a slightly spiced adjunct lager. A little more body, but that's about it. No doubt that's from the T58.https://www.homebrewersassociation.org/recipe/beer-of-the-week-potato-vacation-beer/
Come to think of it, I have a bag of potatoes that just hasn't been getting eaten fast enough. This might be an ideal way to get rid of them in a productive fashion.
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