Maine Brews

This post is slightly out of date. This is where I was about a month ago. I have since moved on, but wanted to document how this all came about.

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I’ve been having a lot of fun experimenting with brews over the last few years, and one thing that has been a good and bad trend is that my beers have been getting increasingly more delicious but also more expensive.

I’ve been thinking about trying to come up with a good formula for beer that would be under $30 to make, and resemble something like the following:

4-5# DME
1-2oz hops depending on price
1-2# specialty grains

I am convinced that I can produce a beer via this basic recipe that has good flavor and does not taste watery. It is my goal for this summer to develop a beer recipe that I can stick to for a while and is not a budgetary burden.

I have also been considering moving to all grain brewing because that may be cheaper (but I suspect all grain brewing isn’t  – I’ve yet to price out the ingredients to confirm my suspicions).