This was brought up at our brew club meeting tonight. Non of the members have done small batches yet. Anyone have experience with this? What we are talking about doing for National Homebrew Day is to brew up a 5 gallon wort, then divide it amongst 5 of us. We each get a gallon and then add a different yeast. At a later date we will taste the finished beers to see how the various yeasts affect the flavor's of the beer. Has anyone done this and if so what where your results. Thanks,
I do one gallon brewing. Something you might want to do is use different priming sugars, easier to do with a gallon batch.
I visited a brewery yesterday that did this 'experiment' as a way to educate their customers. A basic beer recipe was brewed (I think it was an amber wheat ale) and then the batch was divided into 6 smaller batches to be fermented with American, Edinburgh, American Farmhouse, Belgian, Hefe, and Saison. It was interesting to taste the differences, and there was a clear winner for my wife and me -- the Edinburgh yeast. The rest of them did not compliment that beer at all.
Thanks for the input. I will pass along the idea of the different priming sugars. The different yeast strains are what we are talking of doing, sounds like it could get interesting.
This is exactly the premise of the White Lab Tasting Room in San Diego; same beer different yeasts. http://www.whitelabs.com/white-labs-tasting-room http://www.whitelabs.com/tasting-room-data-depth
