Ok, I've been experimenting with brewing since I was diagnosed with gluten intolerance.... I'm still waiting on the test to see if Celiac or not... so my only experience with brewing is for gluten free beer. my first beer was an all sorghum extract beer. I've done a number of 1 gallon batches with sweet potato, millet, and quinoa. my last beer came out great I think... but I'm not a beer snob, ive never met a beer i didn't like.
Today I took it to the local brew shop to share with the owner and a friend of mine who does AG brewing and cracked a 22 oz bottle there. They were very impressed and my AG brew partner asked for the recepie. But then a stranger to me walked in and the owner shared some with him and he said it was very nice... thinking it was a barley beer. He about flipped when he found out it was gluten free beer and he just came from the Tacoma Craft Beer Festival.
Here's what I did:
3.5 lbs of Sorghum extract
1 lb of dark Belgian candy syrup
1 lb of dextrose
1 oz ea. corriander, bitter orange peel, and sweet orange peel steeped for 15 min and added at 30
Irish moss at 15
boiled it in 5.5 gal of water and hopped as follows:
1 oz Crystal at 60
.5 oz saiz at 20
.5 oz crystal at 20
.5 oz Crystal at flameout
I was going to dry hop it with .5 oz saiz but forgot to put that in.
ABV measured at 5.5 but I'm a little doubtful of the accuracy. the OG was 1.042 @ 80and FG 1.002 @ 70. Color was a nice rich amber with a good head that lasts quite a while.
Today I took it to the local brew shop to share with the owner and a friend of mine who does AG brewing and cracked a 22 oz bottle there. They were very impressed and my AG brew partner asked for the recepie. But then a stranger to me walked in and the owner shared some with him and he said it was very nice... thinking it was a barley beer. He about flipped when he found out it was gluten free beer and he just came from the Tacoma Craft Beer Festival.
Here's what I did:
3.5 lbs of Sorghum extract
1 lb of dark Belgian candy syrup
1 lb of dextrose
1 oz ea. corriander, bitter orange peel, and sweet orange peel steeped for 15 min and added at 30
Irish moss at 15
boiled it in 5.5 gal of water and hopped as follows:
1 oz Crystal at 60
.5 oz saiz at 20
.5 oz crystal at 20
.5 oz Crystal at flameout
I was going to dry hop it with .5 oz saiz but forgot to put that in.
ABV measured at 5.5 but I'm a little doubtful of the accuracy. the OG was 1.042 @ 80and FG 1.002 @ 70. Color was a nice rich amber with a good head that lasts quite a while.
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