BeginnerBill
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Has anybody tried to make an ancient style beer? Any recipes worth trying?
inhousebrew said:This isn't super ancient but it is the best I can do. I know there are other brewer's that have gone this route too.
http://www.northernbrewer.com/connect/2012/04/notes-on-a-brewday-weyermann-g/
It's nothing but 100% oak smoked wheat malt and a tad of hops. I guess they used to make it in Prussia. I know Northern Brewer has the malt otherwise you can oak smoke your own wheat malt. I only made a half batch just because I was curious and it turned out awesomely drinkably this last summer! I upped the ABV a tad to 4% but could still throw them back. Not everyone liked it, my girlfriend said it tasted like beef jerky, but I thought it was an awesomely weird session beer.
If you want an authentic ancient beer recipe, try this:
1) Throw a bunch of slightly cracked grain into a watertight container
2) Put your container out in the rain
3) Let your container of rainwater and grain sit outside for about a week
4) Filter the liquid out of the grain
5) Drink, or at least try to...
This is basically how beer was brewed for most of recorded history!
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