can you make saw dust into beer?

[Online Brewing Supplies]

You should make a wood-based beer with jarrah sawdust, caramelised carrots and quinoa as the base, beetroot juice added in the boil and caramelised date syrup added in primary.
Ferment it with orval dregs.

Then put it in the case swap!

HOM

 

[Westo]

The mention of Nazi's has just reminded me of Godwin's Law lol

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law

 

[Parks]

In Australia milk waste is recombined with fresh milk in the form of permeate and sold as $1 "milk" in Coles and Woolies.

This hasn't been the case for about 12 months now.

 

[MCHammo]

You should make a wood-based beer with jarrah sawdust, caramelised carrots and quinoa as the base, beetroot juice added in the boil and caramelised date syrup added in primary.
Ferment it with orval dregs.

Then put it in the case swap!


I assume there's no gluten in sawdust? Leave out the Orval dregs and maybe it's something the coeliacs can drink.

 

[micblair]

Not with normal brewing diastases (like those commonly found in malted barley, wheat etc). These enzymes have evolved to deal with alpha 1-4 glycoside bonds, not beta 1-4's found in cellulose.

 

[Mardoo]

In ww2 the Nazi found a way to ferment saw dust to make bread, is there a way to make saw dust into beer?
My friend you think WAY outside the box.

 

[Mardoo]

Yep, there are proprietry processes for cellulose and lignen into ethanol, can't say that it would be beer though. Milk waste is popular in NZ for ethanol recovery.
Apparently milk waste is a major source of the ethanol used in alco-pops according to a friend in the industry.

 

[punkin]

Yes it is the major source of what in most countries would be GNS or grain neutral alcohol, which is just bulk cheap 96% cleanish vodka/neutral. A lot of distilleries use it as it's cheaper than producing it themselves for a lot of products.