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[Big Nake]

Read about it here.

[ANUSTART]

This isnt that rotted swollen corn that was on that please don't eat that website, is it? NY Slimes makes me log in to read.

[DaBearSox]

Looks like he bit off more than he could chew.....ZING

[Big Nake]

This isnt that rotted swollen corn that was on that please don't eat that website, is it? NY Slimes makes me log in to read.

Does it really make you log in? My wife sent me this story and I didn't have to log in to read it. Basically, long ago the Peruvians made beer by chewing the corn instead of mashing it. The enzymes in saliva convert the starches to sugars and DFH is doing this. They got this purple corn from Peru and they have a bunch of people chewing the corn and spitting it back out. Sound good?

[chadm75]

What about adding this as an adjunct to the MLPA?! Ken, back to the drawing board with that recipe...

[Big Nake]

What about adding this as an adjunct to the MLPA?! Ken, back to the drawing board with that recipe...

Chad, I'll start chewing corn immediately and I'll report back with my findings.

[shmgeggie]

This isnt that rotted swollen corn that was on that please don't eat that website, is it? NY Slimes makes me log in to read.

You're thinking of huitlacoche (corn smut). It's an edible mushroom that infects corn.

[consumptionjunction]

I don't believe even for a second that they use their saliva for the entire saccharification process. Even if they did it for the purple cord, there wouldn't be enough diastatic power in their chewings to convert all the yellow corn starch they use. Something just doesn't seem right in their explanation. Any thoughts?EDIT: here's a good blog post with video.

[Salsgebom]

Does it really make you log in? My wife sent me this story and I didn't have to log in to read it. Basically, long ago the Peruvians made beer by chewing the corn instead of mashing it. The enzymes in saliva convert the starches to sugars and DFH is doing this. They got this purple corn from Peru and they have a bunch of people chewing the corn and spitting it back out. Sound good?

When I worked at the homebrew shop, one of our customers went to Peru and brought some of this back for us to try. It was a watery pink color, very carbonated (it looked like it was still fermenting in the bottle), very dry and almost as smokey as a rauchbier. He told us the reason it's smokey is because the woman who was brewing it boiled it over a fire just outside a hut where the corn was hanging.I couldn't bare to keep drinking it with thoughts of an old tribal woman with missing teeth chewing and spitting into the pot. But it was surprisingly drinkable if you can get over that!

[Stout_fan]

Holy stinkin' snot Batman!It's bottled Sam Spit!

[Salsgebom]

I wonder if you could give it different flavors based on what you've been eating. Eat some peppermint, or chew tobacco and spit into it. Gonna have to start experimenting!!

[chuck_d]

Does it really make you log in? My wife sent me this story and I didn't have to log in to read it.

The NYTimes, and the WPost as well, will randomly ask you to login if you've been reading a bunch of articles. It's not like it's a big deal though, it doesn't cost anything and you only have to do it once unless you delete the cookie. For people that are really anal about it, there a public logins you can just search for and use if for some reason using a free email like yahoo or hotmail doesn't cut it for you.

[ThroatwobblerMangrove]

Sounds like they nailed it

The musicians of Agua Clara, an Andean band whose members come from Peru, Chile, Ecuador and Japan (hey, it’s New York), were asked to weigh in. They were playing in Times Square on a hot day last week. They smiled broadly as the cool chicha was poured. Then they tasted it and three made faces.“This is not chicha,” Angel Marin (Ecuador) and two others said, almost simultaneously.“It tastes like beer,” said Yanko Valdes (Chile).“It’s supposed to be sweeter,” said Martin Estel (Peru). “It’s not bad though.”Asked about the chewing and spitting method, Mr. Marin said that it was “old school — in the jungle.”He also made a suggestion: “You want chicha, you should go to Queens, or any Peruvian or Chilean restaurant.”