Grain Bill:

2 lb, 8 oz of Eden Barley Malt (2 jars)
1/4 cup corn sugar (in the wort)
6 tablespoons corn sugar (bottling)

Hop Bill:

1 oz Kent Gold Goldings pellets, AA 5.2, 60 min. boil
3/4 oz Kent Goldings pellets, AA 5.2, 10 min. boil
1/4 oz Kent Goldings pellets, AA 5.2, 3 min. boil

Mash Schedule:

Brewers Notes:

The whole point of this beer was to see if decent brew can be made from the jars of organic malt that one finds at health food stores. Like many brewers, I have no local home brew shop and shipping costs on malt get out of hand fast. The only locally available malt is the stuff at health food stores that is sold as a cane sugar substitute.

The recipe is incredibly simple because I wanted to taste the malt in a fairly naked, unadorned way in order to judge it's suitability. My results have been superb. This turned out to be an incredibly smooth, somewhat chewy and very drinkable mild. The taste is, well, mild but delicious. You'll find yourself trying to really pin down the flavor in your mouth by drinking more until you realize you've gone through 4 bottles already.

This is about as simple as beer making can get, short of a canned kit. One kind of malt, one kind of hops. Drinkable 4 days after bottling but delicious after 9 days.