Anybody ever...?

Reg · Post by **Reg** » Sun Jan 23, 2005 6:50 pm

Bought direct from the malting house or even...

...tried malting their own barley?

Reg · Post by **Reg** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 2:48 pm

Well, we'll take that as a no then, but if anybody wants to have a go...

Post by **Jim** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 4:19 pm

I came across someone who was trying to malt his own barley, but I can't find the link now. His name was Dave Pickett, he was one of the people I emailed to get links, but the email address was invalid, so I guess he isn't maintaining the site any more.

I think you need to be keen to the point of madness to try this, by the way. Even the breweries don't do their own malting these days.

Reg · Post by **Reg** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 6:27 pm

Well you don't have to be mad to post here, but...

jean-yves · Post by **jean-yves** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 8:56 pm

try malting your own barley REG ?

Yes you must be mad !
( but: "mad" means good in breton

Reg · Post by **Reg** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 9:14 pm

Mad can also be good in english

I understand the theory of letting the grain partially germinate and then stopping the process by drying the barley and that this was traditionally done in dark malting lofts... But it would be a mad, mad dream to try it... :huh:

jean-yves · Post by **jean-yves** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 9:26 pm

ouais!

Reg · Post by **Reg** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 9:31 pm

"Ouais"... C'est breton, comme un Parisien dit "Oui"? :huh:

jean-yves · Post by **jean-yves** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 9:38 pm

ouais is french , in breton it's: ya
but you look to speak good french, isn't it? :rolleyes:

Reg · Post by **Reg** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 9:48 pm

Non!!! J'ai travaille a Paris, brievement, il y a trois ans... Mais c'etait de temps a autre en deplacement d'affaires... (and I has to look up the phrase for "on and off", (de temps a autre) in a dictionary...))

jean-yves · Post by **jean-yves** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 9:54 pm

My sister has a restaurent in Paris near Cergy-pontoise, a very big one about 500 meals a day! :huh:

Reg · Post by **Reg** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 9:58 pm

I mostly took Eurostar to Gare du Nord then a taxi to the embassy district where my "client" was... (I had a franchisee for my business there)...

But the food in Paris was very good...the "paysanne" cooking, (their words not mine!

), was delicious...

jean-yves · Post by **jean-yves** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 10:12 pm

if you like meat I can suggest you to try an "Hippopotamus"

Reg · Post by **Reg** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 10:23 pm

:blink: :huh:

Reg · Post by **Reg** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 10:25 pm

Now I've had some very nice escargots in garlic and parsley on a baby tomato with a little puff pastry top that were "to die for". (This is an english idiom for something that's so good you must eat it)... But we are talking the African river horse here???

:blink: :ph34r:

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