Puffing Quinoa

[brendanos]

I am brewing a Biere de Garde on the weekend with 20% toasted flaked quinoa & 5% (hopefully) puffed red quinoa.

Puffed quinoa is really quite expensive ($70/kg) so I'm going to have a crack at puffing some myself using a Coretta-style coffee roasting setup (hot air gun, bread machine, temp probe)

I plan to rinse the quinoa in boiling water and dry them over night. I will then attempt to puff them at around 250C in the bread machine with the hot air gun.

If anyone has puffed grains/anything with air or can offer some advice re: process (moisture?) and temperatures I would very much appreciate it - I can't afford to get it wrong too many times!

 

[brendanos]

As for the rest of the beer - 50 % Ale, 15% Munich & 10% Wheat Malt, Fuggles, Pureed raisins (200g), Saffron (10). Not sure about yeast yet (buying tomorrow) will depend what's available/fresh but hoping for Biere de Garde, French Saison, German Ale or something Belgian.

I will mash the cereals with the wheat at 50C for 15 mins, raise to 80C then add to main mash (at 60C >15 mins) and rest the whole lot at 68C for a while before mashout to 80C. Boiled, strained rice hulls will be added (600g) to the sparge.

 

[Phoney]

Well that's the first I've heard of someone using it in a beer recipe. Doing a quick google check, looks like a few others have as well:

here:

http://www.homebrewtalk.com/f14/anyone-eve...oa-beer-104067/

here:

http://www.tedbrews.com/2008/02/quinoa-lager.html

and here:

http://www.homebrewtalk.com/f164/quinoa-pale-ale-185852/


Good luck!

 

[brendanos]

Thanks, found those. Can't find much on DIY puffing though, especially quinoa.

Has anyone puffed rice, amaranth, millet or anything other than corn?

 

[brendanos]

Brewed this today as per above procedure. I bought puffed quinoa rather than doing it myself. Cereal mash did not turn to glue & the runoff was bright almost instantly (cloudy for a few hundred mls) - probably the quickest ever a recirc has cleared up for me. Assumed an extract of about 80% and efficiency of 80% and was over grav/under volume a little but left a lot of trub in the kette.

Will try to report back with my results once it has fermented/conditioned etc.