Kvass Recipe

[sirstubbsalot]

Has anyone attempted making a kvass with an elevated ABV yet? Know any recipes? I'm pretty interested in brewing one of these, but I'd like to sort of supplement fermentables in the drink with a bit of malted barley to increase body and ABV.

 

[rockfish42]

One of the forum members has several kvass recipes, Oldsock's blog The Mad Fermentationist
http://www.themadfermentationist.com/2010/11/pumpernickel-porter-kvass-recipe.html

 

[sirstubbsalot]

yeah, i realized i posted this in the wrong section of the forum and found several posts about kvass in another section. how do you "unpost" ?

 

[cushdan]

there was an article about kvass in a recent "brew your own" magazine, they probably had some recipes in there

 

[DKershner]

there was an article about kvass in a recent "brew your own" magazine, they probably had some recipes in there

That article was written by Oldsock (TMF). The recipes are probably similar, if not the same, but I have not checked.

 

[Oldsock]

That article was written by Oldsock (TMF). The recipes are probably similar, if not the same, but I have not checked.

Yep, same recipes (East End's "standard" version, Smoked Gruit, and Pumpernickel Porter) although the efficiency and batch size were all standardized for BYO. The article has a lot more polish though, as well as some bread recipes, kvass lore etc...

All three recipes turned out well, but the smoked/spruce/elderberry gruit is the looker of the bunch. It also provided some interesting turkey-day conversation when my grandfather brought up the whiskey barrel-aged wild elderberry wine his father made during prohibition, to have a bottle of that!

 

[Oldsock]

If anyone is interested we did an interview on the kvass project with Basic Brewing Radio that was just posted: http://bit.ly/hQLsBH