Thinking about using up some stuff I have left over. Was going to do a 2 gallon brew with 1lb each of light, dark, and wheat malt along with 1oz of halleratu and us-05 yeast. Anyone have any experience with this mixture or know what it may end up like?
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I think you'll end up with beer 
Seriously, this should be fine. An amber-ish ale, maybe malt-forward depending the strength of those Hallertau, but probably pretty balanced. I say go for it.
Have you ever used brewing software? That might be an interesting next step for you, if you haven't. You could enter your ingredients into the software and it will give you an idea of what you'll end up with. Essential for building recipes. There are online versions, free versions, and paid versions. Take a look through the brewing software forum here at HBT for more info.
Let us know how it turned out!
Seriously, this should be fine. An amber-ish ale, maybe malt-forward depending the strength of those Hallertau, but probably pretty balanced. I say go for it.
Have you ever used brewing software? That might be an interesting next step for you, if you haven't. You could enter your ingredients into the software and it will give you an idea of what you'll end up with. Essential for building recipes. There are online versions, free versions, and paid versions. Take a look through the brewing software forum here at HBT for more info.
Let us know how it turned out!
Lefou
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Yep, a good brew calculator is your friend. I've literally spent hours playing around with them.
I recently did something similar - made a batch with what I had laying around, including a lot of small amounts of various types of hops. It’s not going to win any awards, but the resulting beer is pretty good!
tri_clamp_ninja
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I was cleaning out some old stuff from when my brewery was still in testing phase and ended up making a 5 gal "left overs" batch also. Had some steeped honey malt, c60, c90, and briess black, then a mix of briess Pilsen light, golden light, and muntons extra light dme all added at flame out. I did a hop hash addition @ 60, then did 2oz Columbus additions at 45, 30, 15, and flame and have another 2oz of Columbus or citra I'll throw in later as a dry hop (maybe both!). Beersmith put me at 475 ibu lol. It was so much vegetal material I highly doubt all of that oil made it into solution. Still, if I lost over 50% of that I'm still around 230-240ibu haha. Did I mention that this will only be around 3.7% abv when done? But it's also kinda reddish and the malt does come through a bit even with all the hops. So it's a 200+ ibu malty red session IPA I guess? If it's terrible I'll just bottle it and bring it to the band's rehearsal fridge... Those guys will drink anything.
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I like to do "leftoverture" batches with remaining ingredients. I plug it into Beersmith, as it's not aways wise to just dump it all in. A few of my best beers have been brewed from leftovers.
I did one that was a brown ale out of leftovers. I rank that one in my top 10 out of 94 batches. I brewed similar a couple more times, those were not better than the first one.
