So this month my homebrew club decided to kickoff a Iron Chef style bracket competition to see who could feature non-traditional brewing ingredients in a beer. Of course the ingredients were a secret and we have to produce the beer at the next club meeting in November. I was all over this shit.
My challenge: generic Fruity Pebbles
If you google fruity pebbles and beer, the result is like 20k hits on Leinenkugel’s Sunset Wheat beer. Well that was fucking easy… now off to brewing. I decided to make a heavily hopped amarillo wheat beer similar to Three Floyd’s Gumball Head. Well, minus the cereal.
I’ll spare you with the details of the process, just know that an entire 25.5 oz bag of Fruity Dyno Bites went into the mash. It was a small 5 gallon batch: 5 lbs of American 2-row barley, 4.5 lbs of American wheat malt, and a decent amount of citrusy amarillo hops. Very basic recipe, here are some more pics:
Mash:
Sparge and awesome shot of all the shit in my garage:
Bittering hop addition:
Setting the mood:
Flavor/aroma hop addition:
Yeast having sex:
I’ll post the results after this shit ferments, gets dry-hopped with more amarillo and I get it carbonated. If it ends up tasting/smelling like it did going into this this fucker then all the ladies in the bi-state area are going to have wet panties.
October 26, 2009 at 4:56 pm |
I would like to consume this beer
October 26, 2009 at 6:10 pm |
Serg, I’ll hold off on the package and bottle one up for you. It’ll be 3 weeks or so.
October 26, 2009 at 8:28 pm
shit yeah man, I’m down with waiting.
October 26, 2009 at 5:21 pm |
This beer needs to be amazing, if there’s any good in this world it will be.
October 26, 2009 at 10:52 pm |
Well, you know I’m down to taste test if there is any leftover.
October 27, 2009 at 9:37 am |
Grocery is in a home brewing club. Ladies and Gents, please give him a round of applause.
October 27, 2009 at 2:09 pm |
mm Fruity Pebbles. Props! Home brewing is legit. I wanna see /taste the results
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October 28, 2009 at 3:38 pm |
Your post on the Old English recipe is what made me love your blog. A cereal challenge sounds great. How about a malt liquor using corn flakes?
October 30, 2009 at 4:20 pm |
I…..am intrigued and grossed out at the same time. Hee….
October 30, 2009 at 8:40 pm |
um – yeah – call me when that’s ready please…k?
November 2, 2009 at 10:35 am |
I think this shit is done fermenting and will be pulling a taste tonight.
November 3, 2009 at 9:29 pm |
So, how is it?!
November 3, 2009 at 10:26 pm
I added more hops to help mask the fake fruit flavor.
November 18, 2009 at 12:37 pm |
This shit is not that great, but it’s not a drain pour either. Whoever wants some is welcome to come through the crib and fill up growlers of this bastard. I want it gone asap.
November 18, 2009 at 12:58 pm |
[...] got together for our monthly meeting and we judged the 16 Iron Brewer entries for round 1. My Fruity Pebbles beer somehow won and I’m moving to the 2nd round. I suppose it paid off for getting the [...]