BuffaloSabresBrewer
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So I just recently bought a new French Press coffee maker. I love it! While I was making a pot I thought, as Im sure most brewers have already thought, making coffee is just sparging. So I decided to try to brew a small batch of beer with a coffee maker.
1. Crush grains as usual.
2. Heat mash water.
3. Pour crushed grain into coffee maker.
4. Pour mash water over grains.
5. Stir and put the top on the pot and wait.
6. Depress plunger and pour off wort.
7. Fill with water and stir and repeat step 6 until volume of wort is achieved.
I remembered the camera half way though but it is pretty basic. I should have used a bit less grains, but this was more of a proof of concept and to see if the group thinks it is worth putting the whole process to pictures.
Some benefits are:
1. Those who have a french press can try a small AG batch with no investment.
2. Very little work and less clean up. No baby sitting for boil overs, after hot break.
Downfalls:
1. Small amounts amplify mistakes.
2.You would need a scale for hop measurements if you were trying to go by an exact recipe.
A few things that I would modify.
Insulate the coffee maker.
Use a coffee filter during the "spare". I was too lazy to dig one out.
Pictures to come shortly.
So what do you guys think?
1. Crush grains as usual.
2. Heat mash water.
3. Pour crushed grain into coffee maker.
4. Pour mash water over grains.
5. Stir and put the top on the pot and wait.
6. Depress plunger and pour off wort.
7. Fill with water and stir and repeat step 6 until volume of wort is achieved.
I remembered the camera half way though but it is pretty basic. I should have used a bit less grains, but this was more of a proof of concept and to see if the group thinks it is worth putting the whole process to pictures.
Some benefits are:
1. Those who have a french press can try a small AG batch with no investment.
2. Very little work and less clean up. No baby sitting for boil overs, after hot break.
Downfalls:
1. Small amounts amplify mistakes.
2.You would need a scale for hop measurements if you were trying to go by an exact recipe.
A few things that I would modify.
Insulate the coffee maker.
Use a coffee filter during the "spare". I was too lazy to dig one out.
Pictures to come shortly.
So what do you guys think?