Sat Jan 16, 2016 11:16 am
There are a ton of things you can do:
Iron Brewer- Buy the same exact ingredients and split them into "Kits".
Iron Mr. Beer competition - everybody gets the same Mr. Beer kits (2 kits will make a 5 gal batch) and everybody brews/ferments starting with the same one (twists = additional ingredients allowed or not allowed)
Same yeast = pick a not-so-common strain and everybody brews with that
(youy may need help from your LHBS for this)
Weird Ingredient brew as above
Low gravity comp - everything must start with OG < 1.040
Pick a style, any style = everybody brews a Bavarian Hefe, for instance
Pick a country - everybody brews an English beer or Irish beer, etc
Pick a color - same color beer (the beer should be between X and Y SRM
If you have access to a local pro who can help brew a big batch of wort you can do a "same wort" batch
where the wort is split and everybody ferments that using their own yeast, temp control, etc.
-B'Dawg
BJCP GM3 Judge & Mead
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