This may be crazy, and I'm just spitballing here; hoping y'all can poke holes in this theory before I try it out. Here goes....
I'm questing for the holy grail (no, not the hot librarian stripper w/ heart of gold and classy public demeanor...the OTHER holy grail!): a session beer under 5% ABV that also has flavor and complexity. Here's my theory:
APA (for example)
80% Ger pils (or MO/Golden Promise)
15% Munich
5% C40
About 30 IBUs mostly from big hop additions after last 15 mins of boil.
Mash @ 158 45-60 min to get as much body as possible w/o restarting to Dextrine malt.
Use 1st runnings ONLY to avoid watering down the malt character.
Anyone tried this already? Any thoughts? HBT rocks at this sort of thing, so I look forward to great constructive criticism.
I'm questing for the holy grail (no, not the hot librarian stripper w/ heart of gold and classy public demeanor...the OTHER holy grail!): a session beer under 5% ABV that also has flavor and complexity. Here's my theory:
APA (for example)
80% Ger pils (or MO/Golden Promise)
15% Munich
5% C40
About 30 IBUs mostly from big hop additions after last 15 mins of boil.
Mash @ 158 45-60 min to get as much body as possible w/o restarting to Dextrine malt.
Use 1st runnings ONLY to avoid watering down the malt character.
Anyone tried this already? Any thoughts? HBT rocks at this sort of thing, so I look forward to great constructive criticism.