Mongrel brews

[stuartf]

We have all made beers with the leftover bits and pieces of grains and hops. I thought it would be interesting to see what beers people had created with these leftovers and how they turned out?

My latest (and first) was:
4kg pilsner
0.25kg wheat
0.4kg mo
0.4 gladfields aurora
0.08 chocolate
30g cascade at 60, 15 and 5 minutes
M054 british ale yeast.
Tasted good at post boil sample.

 

[620rossco]

When I keg my beer I throw the slops of each fermenter into a keg all together. It comes out as a cloudy beer and often has more than on style involved, we never had a name for them but generally seem to refer to them as mongrel kegs. I put one on ATM, the best we can figure it is AG golden/amber/sparkling ale. It is so good. Not possible to replicate but a real treat.

 

[Danscraftbeer]

I went through a phase of cold crashing the 4lt trub left overs to get 1.6 lt clear worts.
To use as starters but I saved far more than I could use as starters so I thawed and reboiled a multitude of saved worts from pales to IPA's to Stouts.
It was too diluted INO finishing at 3.8% ABV and at around 50 EBC. It was not a good beer unfortunately. I think I fed that one to the garden.

As for mongrel mixes of grains (being older grains). I've gone to the trouble of turning them into an unhopped malt cider then turned that into Vinegar. That worked well.
Yep, too much time on my hands.