Open Source Brewathon Results Tasting

Earthbound Beer is partnering with OpenDataSTL to celebrate open source licensing and collaborative brewing for the National Day of Civic Hacking. The partnership includes the release of an open source beer recipe, educational events, and a brewing contest.

The event kicked off Monday, April 27 at Earthbound (2710 Cherokee St) with the release of the open source brown ale recipe and Benjamin Siders of Lewis, Rice & Fingersh (and home brewer) presenting on open source software, creative commons licensing and iterative development.

Now comes the big finish.

Wednesday, May 27th, 7pm at Earthbound. Time for tasting and juding as home brewers from around the metro area submit their interpretations of the brown ale recipe for public and juried critique. Awards and prizes will be presented, and Earthbound will brew the winning recipe. All recipes will be collected and saved in a central repository.

##Open Source Brown Ale

This recipe is a malt-forward brown ale that pairs dry roasty notes with a soft body. The belma hops provide aromas of fruit candy.

Recipe scaled for 1.5bbl production (46 gallons)

OG: 1.052

FG: 1.013

ABV: 5.0%

IBU: 24.8

SRM: 21.3

GRAIN BILL:

70 lbs 2 row Brewers Malt (2.0 SRM)

10 lbs Biscuit Malt (23.0 SRM)

4 lbs Roasted Barley (300 SRM)

5 lbs crystal 120 (120 SRM)

MASH SCHEDULE:

Add 112 quarts of water at 164 degrees

Mash at 154 for 45 minutes

Mash out to 170 for 15 minutes

Sparge

HOP ADDITIONS:

4 oz of Belma hops (9.4% AA, 14.6 IBUs) at 60 minutes

.15 oz of supermoss (hydrated) at 15 minutes

4 oz of Belma hops (9.4% AA, 7.2 IBUs) at 15 minutes

4 oz of Belma hops (9.4% AA, 2.9 IBUs) at 5 minutes

Whirlpool, chill and pitch yeast (Our house strain is Wyeast 1332, NW Ale, though we’ve also experimented with Wyeast 1469, West Yorkshire Ale).

Ferment in primary until desired attenuation is reached.