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I have a Cascade Golden Harvest Lager kit sitting in my cupboard. I bought 2 ages ago (I think they were on special), and made up one of them. It was without doubt the worst beer I've made, and I don't think it was just technique.
Anyway, I was figuring that if I gave it a good boil, I could drive off any flavour/aroma, and could just use it as a bittered malt base
for making something completely different. For example I have a wheat beer brewing with Wyeast 3787 (Trappist). I wondered about using the bittered malt base with some extra dry wheat malt extract and pitching on to the 3787 yeast cake. Not much harm or expense in trying. Has anyone tried this kind of kit re-engineering before?
T.
Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?
-- The Twelfth Night, William Shakespeare
Since I'll pitch it on to a belgian yeast cake, I didn't want it too bitter, but since I'll add more malt, I wanted enough to make sure it wouldn't be too sweet. I'd guess 22 IBUs will be fine, though I'm no expert (or I wouldn't ask the questions I do!).
cheers,
T.
Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?
-- The Twelfth Night, William Shakespeare
Since I'll pitch it on to a belgian yeast cake, I didn't want it too bitter, but since I'll add more malt, I wanted enough to make sure it wouldn't be too sweet. I'd guess 22 IBUs will be fine, though I'm no expert (or I wouldn't ask the questions I do!).
Sounds like its worth a try. I agree that you don't want to much bitterness, you should get some tartness from the wheat and good flavours from the yeast - a light belgian style ale perhaps. Probably not to style but Belgian Blond Ales can have bitterness as low as 15.
