{"id":1278,"slug":"free-beer","title":"Free Beer","description":"Free beer, also known as Vores Øl in Danish, is a beer with its recipe licensed under a CC-BY-SA license.","ingredients_raw":["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)","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","35 g guaraná berries","London ale (White Labs #WLP013)"],"ingredients_norm":["maris otter","munich malt","crystal malt","brown malt","carafa special type iii","aau northern brewer hop pellet","alpha acid","aau williamette hop pellet","guarana berry","london ale"],"steps":["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 the last 15 minutes.","Mash crushed grains at 66 °C in 135 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 (about 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 to it. 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."],"categories":["Beverage recipes","Recipes for beer","Recipes using hops","Recipes using malt"],"prep_time_minutes":null,"cook_time_minutes":null,"total_time_minutes":null,"servings":null,"yield_text":null,"difficulty":"hard","source_name":"wikibooks","source_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Free_Beer","source_ref":"4495401","authors_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook:Free_Beer&action=history","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","extraction_confidence":null,"content_hash":"7e1fd05637449cce815576fb08106dfcb4de6ba308d8aca5ecfa29be3d7d33ed","created_at":"2026-08-02T14:43:02Z","updated_at":"2026-08-02T14:43:02Z","notice":null,"url":"https://recipecontextprotocol.com/recipes/free-beer"}