Comments about ‘Food Storage Essentials: What about storing barley?’

I love barley, but never though about using it as part of breakfast. I will have to try it. I do remember that on the old Provident Living page where you could calculate amounts of dried foods to store, barley was included. It's good to know the benefits of eating barley. Thanks for the information!

I love Barley also. Roast it, steep it, boil with hops then add yeast.

Excellent beverage.

JoeBlow: You don't need yeast. Yeast and barley have a commensal relationship. In fact, Germany has an old law, the Reinheitsgebot, which makes it illegal to call a beverage beer (bier) if it's made from anything except water, barley, and hops. The "Word of Wisdom" (Doctrine and Covenants (1833), Section 89) sanctions barley-based beverages in verse 17 "...for mild drinks...." Revisionists have tried to assert that he was talking about barley water, a luxury almost unheard of in 1833 rural America. Moreover, because it has yeast and fruit in it, barley water begins to ferment immediately, the sugar in the fruit being a fermentation accelerant. Boiling barley with fruit creates what distillers call a "mash," the source of potent drinks like brandy. Depending on the temperature and the concentration of barley and fruit, barley water can become what Joseph Smith would have called a "strong drink" in less than a day. The fact is, Mormon culture is based on Methodism and Methodism's founder, John Wesley, was opposed to all alcoholic beverages because they had become so cheap in 18th century England that they had become "the ruin of the working man." Here's to Free Agency!