As a homebrewer you sometimes need odd sized ingredients to make your brews. For instance if you only need 0.75oz of hops but you needed to buy a 1oz package what do you do with the remaining 0.25oz? Well after building up some “extra” ingredients over the course of a few months I decided to experiment a bit with what I’m calling a summer “leftover” ale.
Everything about this recipe was left over or harvested (in the case of the yeast) with the exception of the grain. For the grain bill I figured I would just keep it super simple and go with only 2 row. Here is the full recipe:
Beer Specifications
Beer Name:
Summer “leftover” Ale
Beer Style:
Ale
Recipe Type:
All Grain
Batch Size:
5.5 gallons / 20.8 litres
Estimated SRM:
2.1°
Estimated IBU:
23.3
Estimated OG:
1.044
Estimated FG:
1.011
Estimated ABV:
4.3%
Grain Bill/Fermentables
LBS
Fermentables
8
2 Row
Hops
Oz
Time
Hops
0.75
60 min
Fuggles
0.5
20 min
Styrian Goldings
0.25
5 min
East Kent Goldings
0.25
5 min
Cluster
Yeast
#
Yeast
1
Danstar Nottingham Ale Yeast
Fermentation Schedule
21 days
Primary
7-14 days
Bottle Conditioning
Optimal Fermentation Temperature: 57-70°F / 13.8-21.1°C
Place fermenter in stable temperature, out of the light.
Directions
Mash Temperature:
150°F / 65.6°C
Mash Time:
60 min
Strike Water Volume:
3.5 gallons / 15.9 litres
Sparge Water Volume:
3 gallons / 11.4 litres
Boil Duration:
60 min
As you can tell from the recipe this was a pretty straightforward affair. I ended up with a measured original gravity (OG) of 1.042. After letting the beer ferment for about 3 weeks I bottled it at which time I got a final gravity (FG) measurement of 1.006 for an estimated ABV of 4.73%.
A “leftover” homebrew
The final product is actually pretty decent, even more so when considering I made it from mostly left over ingredients. That it is as rounded and well balanced as it is betrays the fact that I kind of just threw everything together to make it. It’s not the best beer by any means but it is certainly a very drinkable “lawnmower” style beer that goes down nice and easy on a hot summer day.
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