GrowleyMonster
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Looking at a simple house brew for kegging, with minimalist bill of ingredients and minimal price. I just ordered six 6lb jugs of Maillard's Golden LME and a pound of Cascade hops, and some SafeAle US-05 yeast.
Would this end up being fairly drinkable?
9lbs of the LME
3/4oz Cascade hops pellets boiled 60 minutes
3/4oz Cascade dry hopped
1oz SafeAle US-05
Target volume of 5gal, target ABV of 6% or a bit over. I will be kegging this, not bottling. Waste of time and ingredients? Would this suck, or be okay? How about only 6lb of LME? It would be cool to not have any leftover partial jugs, yeah, and they are 6lb jugs. Maybe reduce final volume to 4gal, with 6lb LME? Anyway the general idea is only the three ingredients, being Maillard's LME, Cascade hops pellets, and SafeAle US-05 yeast. The question is not what I could add or substitute to make it "better". The question is simply will this work, and how well will it work, and is there a sweet spot in regards to LME concentration and hopping? I am using corny kegs and so I want to keep batch size down to 5gal or slightly over.
I know this idea runs counter to the connoisseur ethos, but I just like beer and I like it to be inexpensive and I like to not have to spend too much time on doing anything but drinking it. But if the idea is a non-starter then I would rather not start it, dig what I'm saying? I can buy grains and come close to duplicating the NB Block Party Amber that I made as my first ever batch, that I liked a lot. The thing is, do I gotta do that.... or can I use the KISS principle here?
Would this end up being fairly drinkable?
9lbs of the LME
3/4oz Cascade hops pellets boiled 60 minutes
3/4oz Cascade dry hopped
1oz SafeAle US-05
Target volume of 5gal, target ABV of 6% or a bit over. I will be kegging this, not bottling. Waste of time and ingredients? Would this suck, or be okay? How about only 6lb of LME? It would be cool to not have any leftover partial jugs, yeah, and they are 6lb jugs. Maybe reduce final volume to 4gal, with 6lb LME? Anyway the general idea is only the three ingredients, being Maillard's LME, Cascade hops pellets, and SafeAle US-05 yeast. The question is not what I could add or substitute to make it "better". The question is simply will this work, and how well will it work, and is there a sweet spot in regards to LME concentration and hopping? I am using corny kegs and so I want to keep batch size down to 5gal or slightly over.
I know this idea runs counter to the connoisseur ethos, but I just like beer and I like it to be inexpensive and I like to not have to spend too much time on doing anything but drinking it. But if the idea is a non-starter then I would rather not start it, dig what I'm saying? I can buy grains and come close to duplicating the NB Block Party Amber that I made as my first ever batch, that I liked a lot. The thing is, do I gotta do that.... or can I use the KISS principle here?