Enhoffer-Knopfe
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Is there any software that will build a recipe in reverse?
You wanna do a beer backwards? Start by drinking a couple of your favorite brews, then drink your piss. Next see if you barf up barley, yeast, hops, and water. I'll bet you figure out exactly what kind they were
Is there any software that will build a recipe in reverse?
Thanks for the constructive help. The rest of you must be a real hoot at the Star Trek conventions. Being new to this and knowing how I want it to turn out I thought there might be something to help me generate a recipe to start with.
Thanks for the constructive help. The rest of you must be a real hoot at the Star Trek conventions.
Thanks for the constructive help. The rest of you must be a real hoot at the Star Trek conventions. Being new to this and knowing how I want it to turn out I thought there might be something to help me generate a recipe to start with.
It is a starting point but there are just too many variations on malts, hops and yeasts to get a close clone unless you have a pretty good idea of what the commercial beer was brewed with. For instance just using a specialty grain at 5% of the grain bill when the original was 1% would make a huge difference. Multiply that variance by each grain in the recipe and you will have something far different even if you end up with the right ABV.
I have been working on a clone where I knew what ingredients the brewer used but not the amounts or timing for the hops. I have done 4 versions and the 4th was great but not the same. The first 3 were good but not even close. I even harvested yeast from the companies beer, not the same one because they have stopped brewing the one I am cloning. The yeast itself made a huge difference. And I don't even know if that is the same yeast they used in the one I am trying.
Will it be an exact replica? I have no hopes of that. Will I have fun trying? Heck yes. Will it be a good beer? I hope. Will it be beer anyway? Almost assuredly.
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