Bottled my first beer today! (Simple Sorghum)

I just wanted to get that off my chest! I tasted the leftovers and it tastes ten times better than any of the commercial GF brews, and I am excited. Now, I get paid on Thursday, so I guess my next brew is going to have to be this weekend.

There aren't many sorghum recipes here, so please share your recipes, tasting notes, and experiences when you can.

Congrats! The best way to keep your mind off of conditioning beer is to brew more!

I just used the Simple Simon Sorghum recipe from BYO. Here it is:


Simple Simon (Gluten Free)
Sorghum Beer
(5 gallons/19 L, extract)
OG = 1.047 FG = 1.011
IBU = 22 SRM = 8 ABV = 4.7%

Ingredients

6 lb. 11 oz. (3.0 kg) BriesSweet White Sorghum Syrup 45 DE High Maltose
0.50 lbs. (0.23 kg) honey
6 AAU Tettnang hops (60 mins)
(1.5 oz./43 g of 4% alpha acids)
Danstar Nottingham dried ale yeast
0.75 cups corn sugar (for priming)

Step by Step

Heat 2.5 gallons (9.5 L) of water to a boil, then stir in sorghum syrup. Return wort to a boil, then add hops and boil for 60 minutes. At the end of the boil, stir in honey with a sanitized spoon, then cool wort until sides of brewpot are cool to the touch. Transfer wort to a sanitized fermenter and top up with water to 5 gallons (19 L). Aerate wort and pitch yeast. Ferment at 68 °F (20 °C). Bottle with corn sugar.

Going into the bottles at room temp, it is slightly sour to start, slightly bitter in the middle, and finishes very dry. It is a very drinkable beer as of right now, but very mellow. I would imagine it will get even more mellow as it sits in the bottles, but I am just happy to have ANY beer right now. Any suggestions on gluten free ingredients to add to my next beer that could make it more interesting? I am open to all suggestions. BTW I only used 1 oz. of PERLE hops.

You can caramelize cane sugar to add a little color & flavor. Molasses, ginger, coffee, cocoa are other possibilities. I have often wondered what a sorghum APA would taste like.

You could sprout millet and make your own specialty grains.

I would also be interested in your follow up!

More experimenting with GF beers will help a lot of new Celiac people

Have you looked at Arrowhead Mills' grains? Link

Click on the Grains link. The toasted groats might be interesting to use for flavors!

+1 on the millet!