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Reddit mentions of Experimental Homebrewing: Mad Science in the Pursuit of Great Beer
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- Experimental Homebrewing: Mad Science in the Pursuit of Great Beer
- Paperback
- by Drew Beechum, Denny Conn
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| Color | Multicolor |
| Height | 9.99998 Inches |
| Length | 8.2499835 Inches |
| Number of items | 1 |
| Release date | November 2014 |
| Weight | 1.86 Pounds |
| Width | 0.7499985 Inches |
People always get wooged out by the whole meat in my beverage thing. The recipe in Experimental Brewing is a modern update on the infamous Digby's Cock Ale. One thing I would do for your experiment though is crack the bones - get the insides exposed so you can extract the collagen and other goodies.
I knew Digby's recipe for years because that naturally gets passed around as a horror story recipe: "ewwww... can you imagine?" Done it a few times, it's actually tasty. But when I was writing my cider book was when I discovered just how ubiquitous meat usage had been in older fermentation processes. You'll see scattered through texts advice like "if your cider isn't dropping bright, suspend a shoulder of pork in it" Note, that's a raw shoulder of pork. Digby's, at least, calls for the chicken to be boiled in the wort and then pulverized. :)
What the old fermenters had stumbled upon was two fold - the addition of collagen as a clearing agent as /u/chromerat mentions and the addition of aminos and nitrogen for yeast health from the meat as it broke down in the wort/must/whatever - aka a little natural yeast energizer!
This is my full list of books from /r/homebrewing but it includes pro level books:
New Brewers:
Continued Learning:
Specialty/Advanced/Other:
Business Books:
Technical Readings (Textbooks might be expensive):
Expermental Homebrewing has arecipe for a shroom beer. There's a lot of other great stuff in there too. I was just given this book for Christmas.
Oxygen ingress in fermented beers is my bugaboo. I'd shy away from adding water but that's one brewers view.
Chapter 5, page 90 of Drew and Denny's Experimental Homebrewing has a how-to on adding carbonated water to make an existing beer "light". It involves boiling water (to remove oxygen) then infusing with CO2 in a keg, rocking, this and that. They give a formula on how to dial in the ABV.
How far off are you on OG?
RDWHAHB
Edit: the page 90 info make more sense for taking some higher gravity beer and "lighting" it for something like a golf outing etc... you'd drink it up before it would oxidize too much.
Since a lot of people are suggesting home brew kits, how about adding on some books on the science behind beer like Froth!: The Science of Beer, Experimental Homebrewing: Mad Science in the Pursuit of Great Beer (which comes with lots of recipes to try), or even Principles of Brewing Science.
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