The ForceBeer thread (brew without measuring)

[sweetcell]

the origin of this thread was a tangential discussion in the broken hydrometer thread: what if you tried to brew a beer without taking measurements?

THE RULES: brew a batch, then post your notes (a pic would be nice too!), of the beer that results from:

1. Dumping grains into your mill without weighing. just eyeball it. you get no points for going single-malt
2. Same for hops. make as many additions as you want, but no scales.
3. Minimal management of the mash temp. ex: measure your strike water before dough-in, no measurements after that.
4. No timer on the mash - use your spidey-sense.
5. If you sparge: no measuring the water temp.
6. No timer on the boil.
7. No nutrients, if you happen to use them.
8. Chill the beer, but no measuring the temp.
9. No starters, no rehydration. just pitch it (directly).
10. No temp control for fermentation, so choose your location wisely.

as the originator @AzOr mused, "What’s this gonna prove? Absolutely nothing. But I’m still excited to try it out."

i have toyed with calling this style/approach Slackbeer or Eyeball beer, but ultimately i think ForceBeer is the better name (cue the scene where Luke is on the trench run in EP4 and about to use his sighting instrument to fire the kill-shot, when Obi-wan's voice tells him to "use the force" and he puts the instrument away...). Short & Shoddy cuts a few corners. ForceBeer has no corners at all.

looking forward to seeing what results of this. go forth and brew, jedis...

 

[Dr_Jeff]

Pretty much been there, done that.

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/threads/brewing-without-scales.695168/
I've made good beer.

 

[sweetcell]

*sigh*... i should have known everything has already been tried, at some point, somewhere...

i feel like yoda looks:

 

[AzOr]

I’m in! Just have a few scheduled brews to knock out first.

As far as #2, I may weigh my 60 min hops. After all Im not a heathen.

 

[Jayjay1976]

I sense that if Yoda had a house strain, it would be WLP500.

Any extra points for using old hops?

 

[grampamark]

*sigh*... i should have known everything has already been tried, at some point, somewhere...

i feel like yoda looks:View attachment 743866

It’s been done here. 14 years ago.

 

[bwible]