Sometimes you get an idea and build a recipe and brew a beer, and you really don’t know if it’s going to be terrible or awesome! And I’m not talking about conventional recipes with suspect execution, I’m talking about something a little bit more… Xtreme. This past weekend we made up a batch of Throwback Mountain Brew. I took a simple pale ale recipe, used the lightest malt I could find, and added 4 liters of Throwback Mountain Dew (recipe).
We started by reducing 4L of Dew down to about 2 pints worth. It was amazing how quickly this reduced. It made the entire kitchen smell like Mountain Dew!
Assembling the rest of the ingredients.
It was a cold day; ~5F. Even with the propane burner, a small electric heater, and the garage door almost shut, it barely made a dent in the heat. I’m hoping we get the electric brewery built up in the basement before too much longer!
Initial impressions of the day are very positive. Everything seemed to go very smoothly, we hit our target OG pretty spot on, and we had a pretty short lag time of about 6 hours. I, for one, am pretty excited to find out how this will taste!