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[MakeMeHoppy]

Remember to use catergory 21A when entering your green bean beers into competitions

[Pseudolus]

Let's ALL brew with green beans, shall we? I propose a community brew where everyone has to use green beans in a beer... then we'll swap and have a green-bean-a-palooza beer tasting in the canned veggie aisle of the local grocery store.

Iffin' I'm not able to get to the store for beans, can I just brew a DMS bomb and call it a green bean beer?

[Beejus McReejus]

Damn, I forgot to take pics, but the Golf Bravo Ale has 20 minutes left in the boil. I did 1 lb in a 2.5 gallon batch. Chopped up, then boiled till soft and into the mash. Coming out of the mash tun, I really can't taste any bean flavor. May have to toss some into secondary, but we'll see.Recipe:Golf Bravo AleBrew Type: All Grain Date: 10/21/2009 Style: American Wheat Brewer: Brian Jones Batch Size: 2.50 gal Assistant Brewer: Rob Marshall Boil Volume: 3.96 gal Boil Time: 60 min Equipment: Brew Pot (15 Gal) and Igloo/Gott Cooler (10 Gal) Brewhouse Efficiency: 75.0 % Taste Rating (50 possible points): 35.0Ingredients Amount Item Type % or IBU 3.00 lb Pale Malt (2 Row) US (2 SRM) Grain 70.6 % 0.50 lb Barley, Flaked (2 SRM) Grain 11.8 % 0.25 lb Cara-Pils/Dextrine (2 SRM) Grain 5.9 % 0.25 lb Caramel/Crystal Malt - 60L (60 SRM) Grain 5.9 % 0.50 oz Cluster [7.5%] (60 min) Hops 31.0 IBU 0.25 lb Cane (Beet) Sugar (0 SRM) Sugar 5.9 % 1 Pkgs Whitbread Ale (Wyeast Labs #1099) Yeast-Ale Beer Profile Estimated Original Gravity: 1.047 SG (1.035-1.055 SG) Measured Original Gravity: 1.047 SG Estimated Final Gravity: 1.014 SG (1.008-1.015 SG) Measured Final Gravity: 1.014 SG Estimated Color: 7 SRM (2-8 SRM) Color [Color] Bitterness: 31.0 IBU (10.0-30.0 IBU) Alpha Acid Units: 1.5 AAU Estimated Alcohol by Volume: 4.4 % (3.7-5.5 %) Actual Alcohol by Volume: 4.3 % Actual Calories per 12 oz: 157 cal Mash Profile Name: Single Infusion, Medium Body, No Mash Out Mash Tun Weight: 9.00 lb Mash Grain Weight: 4.00 lb Mash PH: 5.4 PH Grain Temperature: 72.0 F Sparge Temperature: 168.0 F Sparge Water: 3.99 gal Adjust Temp for Equipment: No Name Description Step Temp Step Time Mash In Add 5.00 qt of water at 165.9 F 154.0 F 60 min Mash NotesSimple single infusion mash for use with most modern well modified grains (about 95% of the time).Carbonation and Storage Carbonation Type: Corn Sugar Carbonation Volumes: 2.4 (2.3-2.6 vols) Estimated Priming Weight: 1.9 oz Temperature at Bottling: 60.0 F Primer Used: - Age for: 4.0 Weeks Storage Temperature: 52.0 F

[Beejus McReejus]

Crap, I'm only coming out with a 1.031 SG, but 3 gallons. The recipe has .25 # of sugar, which I was estimating for the green beans and not actual sugar. I obviously got too much water in there, probably sparging, and a crappy effeciency. I don't think I've ever hit 65 effeciency. Oh well, it'll still make green bean beer, just a more bitter one.

[Patrick C.]

Cool! I guess you won't really know how much sugar came from the green beans, but you did make beer with green beans. Did the bean bits look any different after mashing? Was it obvious that some of the mass was converted, or did they look exactly the same as when they went in? How did they taste?

[Beejus McReejus]

The beans looked the same. I probably should have mashed them up after boiling, but I just threw them in. The actual beans tasted pretty good when I was cleaning out the mash tun. I couldn't taste any GB in the wort, but it was sweet enough that it could have masked it. Then, because of my low effeciency, it was fairly bitter out of the kettle, so I couldn't taste anything there either.Also, my buddy was helping me and had to leave before it was all done, so I rushed the mash a bit to show him more of the process. I probably got 40 minutes in of mash time, instead of a full hour. I've heard you can have full conversion within 20 minutes, but without doing a test that may have been my effeciency problem.If I can't taste any GB after primary, I may boil the rest of the beans (~ 1/2 lb) and secondary with them. Depends how mad scientist I'm feeling.

[Stout_fan]

DME the rest of it.

[Beejus McReejus]

DME the rest of it.

You talking about raising the gravity since I was low? It's not that big of a deal. It'll be low ABV and taste more like a pale ale, so I'm not too worried.Now, if I was entering the bean in a comp......