Full Grain Batch #2 Using Horse Grain

Before we even tasted our first beer, we were ready to brew our next batch. The problem was that we had no proper ingredients. So we said "what can we find". We had lots of stuff around the house: I went down a raided the horse grain bin. Southern States Reliance. We added a quart of rolled Oats. We added a bottle of molasses.

So we had enough ingredients for a full grain method. Never mind that the grains weren't malted. That was a minor detail. We then proceeded to bring our 3 gallons of water up to 170 deg F and mashed  for one hour.

Now we had to rinse or sparge so I had to come up with some thing. Behold, Wifey's Broccoli steamer. The perfect makeshift sparging unit.

Wifey's Broccoli Steamer, Rinse & Press

We boiled, fermented, dry hopped, secondary fermented bottled and a week later, taste tested.

Have you ever eaten green grass? Well the beer tasted like beer and it was real silky from the oats but, the after taste on the sides of my tongue was like green grass. I don't know, maybe its the rat poison in the horse grain. Who knows. I can tell you one thing. I am a full grain only brewer now.