Free Beer (Vores Øl)

Ingredients

(19 L, ALL-GRAIN) OG = 1.054 FG = 1.014 IBU = 32 SRM = 19 ABV = 5,1 %)

MALT:

3,8 kg Maris Otter (3,0 SRM)

800 g Munich Malt (7,1 SRM)

200 g Crystal Malt (66,0 SRM)

100 g Brown Malt (95,4 SRM)

80 g Carafa Special Type III (710,7 SRM)

HOPS:

7.48 AAU Northern Brewer hop pellets (FWH.)

(25 g of 8.5% alpha acid)

2.92 AAU Williamette hop pellets (7 min.)

(15 g of 5.5% alpha acid)

SPICE:

35 g Guaraná berries

YEAST:

London Ale (White Labs #WLP013)

Preparation

Crush Guaraná beans and infuse in 1 quart of hot boiled water (max temperature 78 °C).

Filter the mixture and add to the boiling wort in the last 15 minutes.

Mash crushed grains at 66,0 °C in 13,5 L of water.

Hold mash at 66 °C for 60 minutes.

Heat to 72 °C.

Hold mash at 72 °C for 5 minutes.

Heat to 78 °C.

Hold mash at 78 °C for 10 minutes.

Sparge with 15,5 L of 78 °C water.

Collect 22,7 L of wort.

Remember to add Northern Brewer hops at the beginning of sparge a.k.a. First Wort Hops/FWH.

Boil wort for 60 minutes.

Add the Guaraná mixture the last 15 minutes and the Willamette hops the last 7 minutes.

Cool wort to 19,5 °C and transfer to clean and disinfected fermenter.

Remember to aerate the cooled wort, dissolving as much oxygen as possible in the wort.

Pitch Yeast.

Ferment at 19,5 °C until fermentation is completed (approx. 7-10 days).

Dissolve 90 g of sugar in a small amount boiling water.

Put the sugar mixture in a clean and disinfected container, and transfer the fermented beer this will ensure even distribution of carbonation sugar.

Leave as much yeast sediment/trub as possible, in the fermenter.

Be careful not to aerate the fermented beer in the process.

Bottle for carbonation and leave at 19,5 °C for 7-10 days.

Store bottles at 4-8 °C for another 14-30 days.

– Serve cold and enjoy.

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About

Free Beer, formerly known as Our Beer (Danish: Vores øl) is the first brand of beer with a "free" recipe - free as in "freedom", taken after the term "free software". The name "Free Beer" is a play on Richard Stallman's common explanation that free software is "free as in speech, not free as in beer." The recipe is published under a Creative Commons license, specifically the Attribution-ShareAlike license.

The beer was created by students at the IT-University in Copenhagen together with Superflex, a Copenhagen-based artist collective, to illustrate how concepts of the free software movement might be applied outside the digital world.

(Source: English Wikipedia; text license: CC-BY-SA)