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To: Red Badger
"Did early Southwestern Indians ferment corn and make beer?"

If they did, I'd like to see that recipe. It's really hard to make beer from corn. You can make whiskey from corn, but beer is made from mainly barley.

10 posted on 12/04/2007 12:44:03 PM PST by Nathan Zachary
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To: Nathan Zachary
If they did, I'd like to see that recipe. It's really hard to make beer from corn. You can make whiskey from corn, but beer is made from mainly barley.

They may be calling any undistilled alcoholic beverage "beer."

Chicha, the Inca beverage made out of corn is an example.

It wouldn't pass the German legal standard for beer, but it's sometimes called a "corn beer".

Kvass, the undistilled Russian beverage made out of fermented rye bread may be another example.

29 posted on 12/04/2007 1:22:12 PM PST by x
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To: Nathan Zachary

“You can make whiskey from corn”

The enzymes necessary to change starch to sugar are not found in corn. The corn mash must be combined with malted barley in order for all of it to be converted from starch to sugar. There’s no such thing as whiskey made entirely from corn.


48 posted on 12/05/2007 12:56:23 PM PST by toddlintown (Five bullets and Lennon goes down. Yet not one hit Yoko. Discuss..)
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To: Nathan Zachary

Ever have corn wine?


50 posted on 12/05/2007 1:03:58 PM PST by Safetgiver (So simple, even a Muslim can do it.)
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