Clone Brews
I have to admit, I am not a big fan of trying to clone a specific beer either. It just seems to me that if I am going to brew something, it might as well be something that I can't buy. I do use commercially available beers for their styles, though.
I made a clone of Dogfish Head 60 Minute IPA and I hit it on the head...the recipe was in BYO and I did the extract version.....Got a 2nd Place at the Mountain Brewer Open in Huntington W.Va. with it....
I'd be interested in the recipe for a lower carb brew, although my brewing experience so far has only been with kits.
Does anyone have a basic recipe that yields a lower carb beer?
The easiest way to lower carbs in beer is to make a dry beer, mash at the low end of the spectrum 147-149F. That would make a more fermentable wort and leave less starch/sugar in the final product.
sounds like that would only work for all-grain, what about extract? would it just be with less malt/sugars?
Yeah, but you'd end up with a watererd down tasting beer. Since the extract is done commercially they probably target a good medium value between a dry/sweet wort. If you wanted to reduce starch you've got to go ultra dry. You might be able to tweak it through adding highly ferementable sugars and less extract, but I think you're still going to run into a beer with very little body.
Highly fermentable sugars? like?
Cane/table sugar, it's going to boost alcohol and dry out the beer, but you can't use too much.
and reduce carbs? what kinda of conversion of malt to sugar replacement would be good to do?
Hi,
My mom has a kit and she made some bottled brew. The brew didnt
taste like any I had ever tasted. It was OK. I only sampled it. I didnt
drink enough to get a kick from it.