Beer is of great social and cultural importance; I would argue that the pub is the British equivalent to the Viennese coffee houses of the enlightment.
Peckham Pale Ale is an ‘open beer’ that not only copyright free, but openly shared amongst its audience.
Each batch contains within it, a link to a website (through a QR code) that documents where, when and who brewed it as well as the specific version of the recipe. When I finally get round to creating the website, I plan to make it a wiki that others can access, contribute to and edit as well as learn how to make their own PPA.
The purpose of Peckham pale ale is to re-open the social and material network it exists in, continually mapping and remapping in an attempt to unalienate. This is Prosumer brewing.
The visual language of the packaging is designed to evidence the human input. Printing with a rubber stamp communicates a certain level of ‘how its made.’
For now here’s the current recipe for 40 pints;
Muntons light malts – 1.8kg
Brupack Target Hops (bittering) – 33g
Brupack Cascade Hops – 100g
Silver spoon Caster sugar – 1.54kg
Richies Citric acid – 5g
Richies epsom salts – 5g
Dr.oetker Powdered gelatine – 5g
Safale s-04 English ale yeast – 1 sachet
Around 23 litres of tap water that i get here.
Boil time- 60 minutes.
Add target hops at the start.
Add half the cascade hops with 10 minutes to go
Add the other half at the end of the boil.
Hold back 40g of sugar for bottling.
See my other (better) brew here : Beijing Bitter
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