Even though I'm not very fond of it, I decided to try and make beer.
The idea was to make it with mixed corn and barley, but due to a mistake in translation I ended up buying oats and not barley, but it should still work...
Sprouting the grains was pretty straightforward, but there was a severe change in weather the same day I was supposed to sun-dry the grains, it's been raining since.
The grains took about a week to dry, some of them kept sprouting several days after they were supposed to dry.
I built a simple sous-vide style arduino powered contraption to mash my "malt". cracked the grains and mixed them with tap water to the texture of a porridge.
I set the device between 62 and 65ºC and let it "cook" for an hour.
The resulting liquid wasn't what I would call sweet and had a gravity of about 1.20
So far I've had it in heat for 3-4 hour and neither the gravity or the sweetness appear to increase.
Am I doing something incredibly wrong?