Ministry inspired brew

[maaark]

Hey everyone, I'm a huge fan of the band Ministry and was thinking about doing an Al Jourgensen tribute beer. Obviously the name of it will be Ale Jourgensen - (if you're not familiar check em out) http://youtu.be/iJ8V-78-_hM

Here's what I've come up with so far:

1.7kg Cerveza tin (Al's originally from Cuba so it's close enough).

50g Roasted Barley - you need something black in this beer.

He got his surname from his Norwegian stepfather so maybe some Euro style hops?

A heap of dextrose - because Al was a big fan of cheap white powder too.

M44 - MJ's US West Coast yeast.

What do y'all reckon? Am I mad or can I get a decent drink out of this? I welcome your suggestions.

Cheers & beers
-Mark

 

[manticle]

Honey ale with sperm (land of rape and honey)?

Ale with pig fat (from the association with jello/lard)?

Ale with lamb brains (the mind is a terrible thing to taste)?

Beer from a chalice mixed with beer number one (psalm 69).

What you've got looks fun. I'd cut the dex back and mix it with some brown powder (al's tried all types) - get some malt extract in there.

Look at which hops nogne o seem to favour - otherwise use styrians or a noble hop just cos they're ace.

 

[maaark]

Haha that's what I'm talking about mate, love your work (not 100% sold on the sperm though).

1kg of dark dry malt might play.

 

[lukiferj]

Heroin. Melted on a spoon and injected rather than drunk. Al would love it.

 

[manticle]

The only problem I ever had with drugs was when I ran out.

 

[lukiferj]

Seriously though, have you seen him lately? Does not look real good although has been sober for a few months I believe.

 

[manticle]

I lost faith in the attitude when I was about 29 but I still admire him for holding onto it for so long, especially since being clean living, healthy wowser types seems to typify a lot of contemporary rock and pop based music.

Admitedly there are currently disturbing video clips that feature beautiful, underwear clad women smiling while parachuting, crying babies land on their breasts then get squirted with milk bukkake style but I like the subversiveness of ministry a lot more.

 

[maaark]

Al doesn't look too bad for someone who's had (has?) hepatitis A, B & C.

Might go with Tettnang for the hop - I've heard it goes alright with a Cerveza kit.

 

[black_labb]

As a butthole surfers fan I always like the story about jesus built my hotrod. Basically Gibby (butthole surfers frontman) came down to one of the first ministry recording sessions after the record company gave them $750,000 to record their record. He was blind drunk and demanded to be on the record so they let him sing to what they were working on. In between falling of the stool he screamed nonsense and whatever into the mic; somehow managing to make something useful at times.

Next thing they realised they had spent the rest of the money on drugs and had nothing to give the record company except this odd song with gibby screaming. They gave it to the record company asking for another $750,000 to actually record the album. The record company hated it but they gave them the money anyway to actually record an album and tried to make their money back on the song. To this day "jesus built my hotrod" was the biggest selling single on Warner Brothers.

"Gibby came down completely drunk off his ass. He couldn't even sit on a stool, let alone sing. I mean, he was wasted. He fell off the stool about 10 times during the recording of that vocal. He made no sense and it was just gibberish. So I spent two weeks editing tape of what he did, thinking it still was better than what I was thinking of doing with the song."

http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=25516


So make a mini batch of odd but excellent beer while smashed and then make a full batch later once the fermenter is empty again?

 

[maaark]

Hah! After watching the 'Fix' documentary I knew that Gibby & Al were good mates but I had never heard that story before. Makes perfect sense though. Cheers for sharing.

I also thinks it warrants another dimension to this brew; smaller batch, higher ABV%.

 

[technobabble66]

Maris Built My Hop Red

5 kg MO
100g Dark Crystal - i'm sure Al's had a few rocks
200g CaraAroma - to get the red

15g Green Bullet for Bittering at 60mins
15g San Juan Ruby Red for flavour/aroma - because it was discovered growing wild around Colorado - at 20 & 5 mins

Sorry, not an extract recipe, but it seemed funny at the time :unsure:
So there was only one thing i could do, was dinga ding dang my danga long ling long!!

 

[maaark]

Not bad mate, keep the suggestions coming.

edit**
1.7kg Morgans Blue Mountain lager
1 kg liquid wheat extract
500 g brown sugar
200 g Carared
50 g Roasted Barley
33 g Tettnang (10 m boil)
33 g Tettnang (dry hop)

According to IanH's sheet this is bang on for an English Best Bitter.