Mr Beer 50c a can recipe

[Gedii]

Hi Brewers,

I recently picked up several Mr Beer extract cans (850g) for 50c each. The best before date is still good so I couldn't pass up a bargain. I'm looking for half decent recipes to pimp out this very cheap extract to serve my mates so they stop smashing my experimental brews! It's pretty much a session beer with reasonable taste I'm after. The lads throw $20 in a tin and it's all you can drink at mine (obviously I'm looking to make some money back from the buggers). I have some bits hanging around that I don't mind throwing in the pot and they include the following:

- Ale malt BB
- Crystal Pale Malt TF
- Chocolate Pale Malt B
- Cascade
- Amarillo
- Willamette
- Dex

Mr Beer cans
- 5 x American Ale
- 8 x American Porter
- 22 American Light

Yes, the checkout chick looked at me weird when I rolled up with a trolley load. Cleared the whole shelf!

Anyone got an old recipe that worked out well for them?

Cheers,

Pete.

 

[Nizmoose]

Sorry don't have a recipe but holy crap 35 cans haha! Thats the best how bloody long is it going to take you to brew all that!?

 

[Gedii]

Haha! I don't care. 50c a pop. I'm making money.

 

[Nizmoose]

haha fair enough thats awesome happy brewing haha

 

[wereprawn]

Use them the same as you would a coopers kit.. Coopers bought Mr Beer out a while back and now put there own goo in the cans. So adjust quantities and away you go.

 

[pnorkle]

You want to make money from your friends?

 

[brad81]

You want to make money from your friends?

Allows you to purchase more equipment to make more beer.

 

[Gedii]

My friends have drunk enough of my beer without paying a dime. I do the work. They pay. I buy more gear / ingredients for more beer. The cycle continues.

 

[pat86]

Use them the same as you would a coopers kit.. Coopers bought Mr Beer out a while back and now put there own goo in the cans. So adjust quantities and away you go.

I tried finding out from Coopers what was in the Mr Beer cans (i.e. does classic American Light = Canadian blonde, etc) but couldn't get an answer.

 

[gsouth82]

I scored 3 American light cans for 50c a piece as well.
I was going to throw then all in with 500g of light DME and dry hop some Amarillo.

 

[brewbienewbie]

Where was this? I don't usually brew kit but for 50c hell yeah I'll knock some out.

 

[scottfrompubs]

You all see 35 brews, but I see 17 and a half toucan brews! A dollar a brew for full flavoured, full strength beer, you cant go wrong. Why not try a can of the ale, a can of the light, and the cascade and amarillo dry hopped for an american pale ale?

 

[JDW81]

The lads throw $20 in a tin and it's all you can drink at mine (obviously I'm looking to make some money back from the buggers).

Surely you mean the lads throw $20 in a tin to cover the cost of the pig on a spit you've got planned? What with selling alcohol without a licence being illegal and all h34r:

 

[Gedii]

Surely you mean the lads throw $20 in a tin to cover the cost of the pig on a spit you've got planned? What with selling alcohol without a licence being illegal and all h34r:

Hehe. We do chicken wings. Lots of them.

 

[Gedii]

Where was this? I don't usually brew kit but for 50c hell yeah I'll knock some out.

Target. I think they are running out the stock for good.

 

[JDW81]

Hehe. We do chicken wings. Lots of them.

Thought that's what you meant.

Carry on.

 

[mxd]

you needs 2 cans for the equivalent of 1 coopers can, and the lights appear to be a 3.7% 8 ltr per can so I would be going 5 cans a brew

 

[Ryanemo]

Anyone have any luck with these? the american light has been tipped twice.

 

[BrosysBrews]

Even at 5 cans a brew $2.5 a batch is not bad at all

 

[menoetes]

Just wondering Gedii, Which Target did you clean out?

If it wasn't my local one then I might pop in there tomorrow and do something similar...

 

[gsouth82]

Anyone have any luck with these? the american light has been tipped twice.

My recipe was as follows:

3x American Light tins
500g Light DME
10g Cascade @ 10mins
10g dry hop
all 3 kit yeasts

OG 1050
FG 1014

It went fine. I drank it. It wasn't great. Probably one of the blandest beers I've ever made, but that's what I expected.
Because it wasn't overly flavoursome I wasn't drinking it very fast and it went a bit weird in the keg. Not quite sure what happened. You'd pour it and smelt fine but it would get a weird smell after it warmed up a couple of degrees. It also left an unpleasant after taste in your mouth. This happened probably after around 3-4 weeks in the keg.
Cant really complain for the pricey sum of around 8 bucks in total!

 

[Florian]

Just to save people from driving around: Just rang Target Toombul and Chermside. Both have completely sold out on the 50c ones.

 

[menoetes]

I rang both Indooroopilly and Mt Ommaney in Brisbane and both are out too. Though they are stocking the new Coopers small brew kits for Fathers day - for all that's worth.

Gedii, I don't suppose you are willing to pass on a few to a brother in brewing? Not for free of course...

 

[Ryanemo]

Another try, did 4 tins of Patriot Lager with 10 g topaz, boiled for an hour. No chilled in cube, then in fermenter and topped up to 25L, used coopers yeast from euro lager. 3 weeks later, bottled today. didn't detect any twang when bottling, was very bitter. stay tuned. Still have 2 porters and another 7 american lights in cupboard.

 

[Gigantorus]

Hi Brewers,

I recently picked up several Mr Beer extract cans (850g) for 50c each. The best before date is still good so I couldn't pass up a bargain. I'm looking for half decent recipes to pimp out this very cheap extract to serve my mates so they stop smashing my experimental brews! It's pretty much a session beer with reasonable taste I'm after. The lads throw $20 in a tin and it's all you can drink at mine (obviously I'm looking to make some money back from the buggers). I have some bits hanging around that I don't mind throwing in the pot and they include the following:

- Ale malt BB
- Crystal Pale Malt TF
- Chocolate Pale Malt B
- Cascade
- Amarillo
- Willamette
- Dex

Mr Beer cans
- 5 x American Ale
- 8 x American Porter
- 22 American Light

Yes, the checkout chick looked at me weird when I rolled up with a trolley load. Cleared the whole shelf!

Anyone got an old recipe that worked out well for them?

Cheers,

Pete.

Pete,

Have a look on the Mr Beer web site in the USA. It has stacks of recipes for it's cans. http://www.mrbeer.com/recipes

Cheers,

Pete M.

 

[Ryanemo]

Well the Patriot Lager is more like a Scwharzbier... The 5 weeks of bottle conditioning and extra bittering has paid off and i think i may just drink this batch.
Will try something similar with the american lights also... maybe nottingham.