Beer Forum

I was reading the archives of another forum and I came across the topic of a Community Brew, where members formulated a single, agreed upon recipe and everybody brewed it individually. They formulated it for all grain, mini mash and extract so anyone could participate. Once finished they exchanged a few bottles with a couple people to compare how they did.

Anyone interested in trying something like this? It'll take a bit of organization and commitment on the scale of a Secret Santa exchange.

Hey, if you are organizing it I am IN!

Sounds fun. I'm in as well.

Another reason to brew? I'm in

Sounds like a great idea!

I'm in.

I'm in too. That makes a six pack. I'm going to have a lager going for 6-8 weeks - but I have one more carboy that's lonely. Here's a question... How do we account for different alphas in the hop varieties available? I might be able to get 3.5% Willamette, when someone else gets 4.2%? Do we just specify a combination of variety, AAUs and addition time? Also, do we all use the same yeast? We probably have to pick a pretty hop simple recipie. How about a (non-imperial) dry stout?


Mylo

or we could just brew with the same kind of hops, and the hell with the AA% and see how different each % does to it. Same yeast is a must for sure though.
-Crut

We do what ever the majority wants to do: a) Pick a style and everyone come (yep, I said it) up with their own rendition, or b) Formulate an exact recipe, specifying virtually everything down to the exact grain bill, yeast and hops/IBUs, or c) Something in between.

Maybe we could use a recipe from JZ's book, which already has both extract and AG. We could even send him our version to see how close we came the his vision.

Any other suggestions for a style? Mylo mentioned a dry stout. Pretty staight forward and hard to screw up.