killsurfcity
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A little while ago, I began brewing 1g batches of sodas like ginger beer, using whatever fruit i had around, some sugar, and an ambient yeast starter, and bottling them in cleaned up seltzer bottles. Later i threw in for a mini-keg thinking it'd be easier than bottling, but to keep a long explanation short, it just didn't work out as well as i thought.
So now I have this keg, and I was think a small beer made from mostly extract wouldn't take that much longer than the soda to brew, and would be cool to "cask condition" in the keg.
Now, making 5l at a time probably seems crazy, however it would be so easy on such a small scale it almost makes up for it. This seems like it'd be pretty simple, and something i could easily do while i'm doing other things around the house on an off day, unlike say, brewing a full size AG batch of the same beer (which is what i'd normally do). However, I'm open to other suggestions.
Anyway, here's the recipe, adapted from this
Small Beer
Batch size 5liters
- .5lb DME
- 4oz Munich
- 2oz Cara-Pils
- 1.5oz Chocolate
- 1/8th oz Willamette at 60min
- 1/8th oz Willamette at 10min
- 1/4 pack Safale 04
Estimated ABV: 3.1%
I'm debating about the need for a 1hr boil, but i kept it in for hop bitterness. I guess sacrificing that, I could probably get away with boiling for just 10-20 minutes.
So now I have this keg, and I was think a small beer made from mostly extract wouldn't take that much longer than the soda to brew, and would be cool to "cask condition" in the keg.
Now, making 5l at a time probably seems crazy, however it would be so easy on such a small scale it almost makes up for it. This seems like it'd be pretty simple, and something i could easily do while i'm doing other things around the house on an off day, unlike say, brewing a full size AG batch of the same beer (which is what i'd normally do). However, I'm open to other suggestions.
Anyway, here's the recipe, adapted from this
Small Beer
Batch size 5liters
- .5lb DME
- 4oz Munich
- 2oz Cara-Pils
- 1.5oz Chocolate
- 1/8th oz Willamette at 60min
- 1/8th oz Willamette at 10min
- 1/4 pack Safale 04
Estimated ABV: 3.1%
I'm debating about the need for a 1hr boil, but i kept it in for hop bitterness. I guess sacrificing that, I could probably get away with boiling for just 10-20 minutes.