Vores Øl - Malt extract

Vores Øl (Danish for Our Beer) is presented as the first open source beer. The recipe is published under a Creative Commons license. The beer was created by students at the IT-University in Copenhagen together with Superflex, a Copenhagen-based artist collective, to illustrate how open source concepts might be applied outside the digital world. The students brewed the first 100 litre batch, titled 'version 1.0', of the dark heavy beer in the school cafeteria, and created label designs and a website to promote the beer and publ ...

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The following recipe is as shown on the official website (as of September 2005), although other variants may exist due to the freedom given to modify the recipe. Recipe for approx. 85 ltr. (approx. 6% alcohol by volume). Vores Øl - Malt extract. Four types of malted barley are used: 6 kg pilsner malt 4 kg münsner malt 1 kg caramel malt 1 kg lager malt The malt is crushed and put in 55-60°C hot water for 1-2 hours. The mash is filtered and ...

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Vores Øl, Vores Øl - Usefulness of original recipe, Vores Øl - Recipe for Vores Øl, Vores Øl - Malt extract, Vores Øl - Taste and sugar, Vores Øl - Fermentation, Vores Øl - Other Opendrink projects

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Almost immediately, much of the homebrewing community spoke out against the quality of the recipe, several posting to a Slashdot thread[1]. Most notable among the complaints were that it was never stated how much water to use in the mash, what type of yeast was to be used, the style of beer being produced (other than being dark and heavy), whether or not any hops were being added for aroma, fermentation temperature, or how the beer was supposed to taste. Along the lines of the open source software that the group is implicitly promoting, several people have said ...

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Vores Øl, Vores Øl - Usefulness of original recipe, Vores Øl - Recipe for Vores Øl, Vores Øl - Malt extract, Vores Øl - Taste and sugar, Vores Øl - Fermentation, Vores Øl - Other Opendrink projects

Read more here: » Vores Øl: Encyclopedia II - Vores Øl - Usefulness of original recipe