Laurel
Well-Known Member
I'm challenging you to make Alton Brown's beer from "Amber Waves" and see how terrible it actually is. Results must be posted. His general recipe must be followed, as well as his processes. This includes sanitizing everything in bleach, not rinsing, using ice in the bucket to cool the wort(none of this sinkful of ice hoopla), boiling the grains, and bottling when the bubbling in the airlock slows to less than 1 per minute or one week, whichever's later.
The basic recipe is :
1/2 lb "barley"
6lbs liquid malt extract. Probably amber, maybe munich.
10 minute boil
Hops added at 10 minutes - 1oz cascade, 3/4oz kent goldings
Hops added at flamout (and left to sit for 5 minutes) - 1oz kent goldings
Some sort of ale yeast in a vial. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that any dry ale yeast would probably be fine here. Alton pitched the yeast at 87º, so I'm going to say low 90's to high 80's would be fine. Really, I suppose whatever the wort + the icewater makes.
Which can be seen here
[ame]http://youtube.com/watch?v=Vlv1wBy7Z5w[/ame]
and here
[ame]http://youtube.com/watch?v=HA7jQ6Wwnqk&feature=related[/ame]
I'll be waiting. I don't have the production levels to tie up either of my fermenters for even a week for this!
My favorite part is at the end when he's trying to drink the homebrew and keeps wincing every time he takes a sip. ahahahahah
I'll offer an exchange for some of my Coriander wit. It makes killer chilli and beer brats.
The basic recipe is :
1/2 lb "barley"
6lbs liquid malt extract. Probably amber, maybe munich.
10 minute boil
Hops added at 10 minutes - 1oz cascade, 3/4oz kent goldings
Hops added at flamout (and left to sit for 5 minutes) - 1oz kent goldings
Some sort of ale yeast in a vial. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that any dry ale yeast would probably be fine here. Alton pitched the yeast at 87º, so I'm going to say low 90's to high 80's would be fine. Really, I suppose whatever the wort + the icewater makes.
Which can be seen here
[ame]http://youtube.com/watch?v=Vlv1wBy7Z5w[/ame]
and here
[ame]http://youtube.com/watch?v=HA7jQ6Wwnqk&feature=related[/ame]
I'll be waiting. I don't have the production levels to tie up either of my fermenters for even a week for this!
My favorite part is at the end when he's trying to drink the homebrew and keeps wincing every time he takes a sip. ahahahahah
I'll offer an exchange for some of my Coriander wit. It makes killer chilli and beer brats.