Open Source Beer

[Torsion]

Beer always tastes better when it's free, or so the saying goes.

So leave it to a group of college students to find a way to make sure their beer is always free. Well, at least the recipe they use to brew it is. A group of students at IT University of Copenhagen have produced what they claim is the first open-source beer.

For the rest of the artice see Open Source Beer

Cam

 

[davidp]

Very silly and fame-whorish, given the vast number of free recipes online.

From Vores l

The malt is crushed and put in 55-60C hot water for 1-2 hours.

4 kg sugar

Savages!

From http://www.blowfly.com.au/

What is Brewtopia?
It's an Open Source beer company. We're about making sexy premium beer. You decide what we do and how we do it. No crap, no fancy ******** about 'imported hops', 'first crop barley' or sweaty blokes hard at it in the coal mines. It's beer. You get drunk, fall over, start a fight and mozy on out of town. Have a look

Minus ten points for use of the word 'premium' in a beer description, minus a million for ripping on imported hops, and then going on to use saaz in their recipe.

This is all just a horrible joke, right?

 

[PostModern]

The full official recipe is here:
http://www.voresoel.dk/main.php?id=71

Ridiculous. They add all the hops including the "aroma" hops at the start of the boil. I'm pretty sure using the same ingredients you could make a beer that actually tastes quite good. I might scale the recipe to a 20 litre batch and give it a whirl one day if I can figure out the difference between lager and pilsner malt. I might also mash a little higher than 55-60 degrees.

They claim to be the first open source beer apart from a news joke, but hell, their recipe and brewing methods are a joke.

 

[johnno]

This was posted a while back here. http://www.aussiehomebrewer.com/forum/inde...resoel\.dk

I definately like the Guarana beans idea.
A pep me up brew a'la Ashers GTR Lager.
Anyone know if you can get guarana "beans" anywhere in Australia?

cheers
johnno

 

[Borret]

Has anyone else actually tasted the Blowfly beer. A guy at work got a case and so I ended up with a bottle or 2 (and the full case of crown seal brown empties). I must say the bottle is the best part of the deal casue what's inside is thin watery and generally horid.

That's my opinion anyway

Borret :blink:

 

[Plastic Man]

Borret

Your critique of Blowfly as being thin watery and generally horid reminded me of a Willie Simpson story I was reading the other day about Blowfly. He has a quote from the Blowfly guy saying the beer they wanted was VB with a dash of something different.

Explains a lot.

http://www.realbeer.com.au/alefiles/beer_w...4_10_8_4940.php

Just out of interest - anyone know where this is being brewed now. It used to be done by that Stockade brewery in Melbourne but I heard that Matilda Bay bought their gear, so I'm assuming they don't contract brew any more. Would be interested to hear if anyone knows.

 

[ausdb]

Oh well anyone can brew it if they really want to as they put their recipe out in the the open!!!

http://www.blowfly.com.au/pages.aspx?pageid=24

Cheers ausdb

 

[Doc]

That recipe really does tell the story. Single malt + sugar.
OG 1.043 FG 1.008

Doc

Edit: In relation to the Blowfly recipe.