dubbel dutch
Well-Known Member
Read someone's post a while back about trying to ruin a batch of beer. Here's my random saturday bored experiment attempt to create a beer without a style and incorporate multiple yeasts and maybe some wild yeast/bacteria. I did use sanitizer on all my equipment but generally did not put so much care into cleanliness as I normally do.
Starting with a Mr. Beer kit that I got for $7 at my local pharmacy I added the 2 lbs hopped LME (one was a pale ale and one was a english brown ale) then added some old hops (1 oz columbus) that I had sitting in the fridge along with 3 lbs of DME and an oz of Sterling pellets (leaving me with an OG approx. = 1.070).
I let the wort cool in the kitchen sink with no lid and opened a nearby window which let in a nice breeze.
The yeast was a combination of rehashed slurries from bottles of La Fin du Monde and Long Trail's Belgian White, (both of which were sitting in jars on top of my refrigerator for the past week) and of course, the Mr. Beer yeast packets... and then I threw it in the carboy all over the yeast cake from my latest racked batch as I was worried that either the bottled yeast or the mr.beer yeast would die.
It is fermenting vigorously now after just a few hours... lots of Krausen and yeast clumps flying everywhere.
I don't think this beer could be said to have any particular style... it's a monster... Mr. Franken-beer. I'm thinking of adding raspberries to the secondary. Frankenbeerry!!! :fro:
Starting with a Mr. Beer kit that I got for $7 at my local pharmacy I added the 2 lbs hopped LME (one was a pale ale and one was a english brown ale) then added some old hops (1 oz columbus) that I had sitting in the fridge along with 3 lbs of DME and an oz of Sterling pellets (leaving me with an OG approx. = 1.070).
I let the wort cool in the kitchen sink with no lid and opened a nearby window which let in a nice breeze.
The yeast was a combination of rehashed slurries from bottles of La Fin du Monde and Long Trail's Belgian White, (both of which were sitting in jars on top of my refrigerator for the past week) and of course, the Mr. Beer yeast packets... and then I threw it in the carboy all over the yeast cake from my latest racked batch as I was worried that either the bottled yeast or the mr.beer yeast would die.
It is fermenting vigorously now after just a few hours... lots of Krausen and yeast clumps flying everywhere.
I don't think this beer could be said to have any particular style... it's a monster... Mr. Franken-beer. I'm thinking of adding raspberries to the secondary. Frankenbeerry!!! :fro: