Begin Brewing!

The Matt Groening television series Futurama has long been one of my favorites.  On that show, the robot named Bender was frequently seen chugging bottles of a beer called Olde Fortran Malt Liquor.  There's no way to guess how a fictional beer on an animated television show might taste. We can guess from the label, which is a parody of Olde English Malt Liquor, that it might be something like that. The American Home Brewing Association web site listed a clone recipe for Olde English. I started there. Since Bender belches fire after drinking Olde Fortran, I figure it has to be a strong beer. Since it's implied in several episodes that Bender has no taste buds (though this is sometimes contradicted), it's probably a cheap lowest-common-denominator kind of mash. I'm going with 6-row malt and a fair amount of flaked corn for the grist.  Since I want it to have at least some flavor, I'm going to add Mandarina Bavaria hops at the 15 and 5 minute marks to impart some ...

I've been a fan of the now-defunct (again) series Futurama since it first aired. In that series, the alcohol-fueled robot Bender B. Rodriguez was often seen guzzling bottles of a beer named Olde Fortran Malt Liquor. While there is no way to know what a fictional cartoon beer might taste like, the name of the brew is similar to Olde English , an American Malt Liquor that is produced by the Miller Brewing Company. The American Homebrewers Association lists a recipe for a hypothetical clone of Olde English.  I decided to brew that with the Zymatic and see how it turned out.  I scaled the recipe down to 1.2 gallons to match one of my small glass fermenters and got to work... Ingredients 15 ounces 2-row Pale Malt 14 ounces 6-row Pale Malt 13 ounces Flaked Corn 0.1 ounces of Cluster hops @ 7.7% AA (105 min.) 0.1 ounces of Nugget whole hops @ 14% AA est. (10 minutes) 1/4 Whirlfloc tablet 1/2 packet Safale K-97 dry yeast 1.5 gallons plus 13 ounces of water...