Anyone Made a Beer with Grain and Hop Leftovers?

[thomer]

I brew beer about once every two weeks. I buy 2-row pale and a few hops in bulk, but generally I order grains and hops on an as-needed basis. For example I have a few ounces of Crystal 60L, some Briess Victory and some Carapils left over from previous brews. I also have between .25oz - .50oz of about 10 different hops.

So, has anyone ever made a beer just from leftovers for fun? and what was the result?

 

[Miraculix]

Search for kitchen sink beer.

 

[Gilbert Spinning Horse]

Just did it a few weekends ago and I'm drinking it now. I brewed a hazey APA and a cream ale. After dumping the cream ale out of the mash tun and into the boil kettle I tossed the APA grains in with the cream ale grains and filled the mash tun to the top, letting it sit while the cream ale boiled. When I in turn ran it off into the boil kettle I had an SG of 1.020, which I managed to get up to 1,029 after a vigorous boil. Bittered with some Magnum and some Citra I had left over, fermented it with my house kveik, and dry hopped it with 20g of Idaho 7 and 10g of Citra, thus clearing my fridge of several opened bags of hops with a few grams in each.
Its a really good lite beer, I could drink it all day long.
It was a bit of extra work and made for a long brew day but I got 20 litres of beer for free, so, well worth it. Madness not to really.

 

[bwible]

Brown Ale time

 

[lumpher]

Most of us have leftovers after a while. Like Miraculix says, search for kitchen sink beers. "Everything in it but the kitchen sink". I have a decent session Northern English ale on tap now from leftovers.

 

[Miraculix]

I created some of my best and some of my worst beers this way, there certainly is potential.

If ish hits the fan, add 10% roasted barley or roasted malt and call it a stout.

 

[aceluby]

Just did this and made a super fruity IPA with my leftover hops, then with the dredges of my grain made a German Pilsner. Both are currently bottle conditioning so I’ll see how they turned out when I bring them to a 4th of July party in a couple weeks

 

[jpitz31]

Northern Brewer did a video a while back , on brewing with left-over grain and hops. Pretty funny video

 

[Mikent]

I did this a couple of years ago, when I came back to homebrewing after 5 years away...
I had a bunch of malts sitting in a sealed bucket, old packets of dry yeast (various), and a couple pounds of dried spray malt extract, but had no hops. So I bought some saaz and threw it all together, not knowing if it would work.
Everything was long out of date after sitting for 5 years but to my surprise it started bubbling away after about 12 h and made a pretty great belgian trippel after a couple months of bottle conditioning. Called it the trashcan trippel... don't think I'll be able to replicate that one though!

 

[Spartan1979]

I did that a few years ago. I made an IPA with it that ended up taking second place in a competition. I called it UWIH (Use What I Have).

 

[Ninoid]

Most of my beers are simple recipes to drink with friends, so I put what I have in BrewMate and make a recipe that way. It's mostly better (and always cheaper) than store-bought beer, and it's all drunk. None of the ingredients are wasted.