Recipe Collaboration Exchange - Winter 2015
Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2015 7:12 am
Time for a new RCE!
Those of you familiar with the drill, sign in and don't forget to include your Level.
For those who don't know what the RCE is, or who need a refresher, read on.
This is a fun tradition in which everyone who signs in on this thread gets paired with another person, and they communicate back and forth via PMs or emails, decide on a style of beer to brew, work on a recipe together, and then they each brew that recipe. It's a way to try a new style or ingredient or technique. Best of all, you get beer out of it, and you get to know a fellow Borg member a little better.
There aren't any other rules. There's no deadline for coming up with a recipe. You don't have to brew it at the same time as your partner. You don't have to ship your beer to each other unless you want to. You just have to sign up and work with the person you've been randomly assigned.
In order to help with the random selection process, I've broken experience levels down into four categories, as follows:
Level 1 - Have only done HME kits, such as Mr. Beer or Brew Demon.
Level 2 - Have used LME/DME, hop additions, specialty grains
Level 3 - Have done Partial Mash
Level 4 - Have done All Grain
Any level brewer is welcome to participate, and it would be helpful to know if any of the higher level brewers are willing to work with a less experienced brewer, or, conversely, if a less experienced brewer would like to take this opportunity to learn about a new technique from his/her partner.
I'll be closing sign-ins and assigning partners on Feb. 8.
Those of you familiar with the drill, sign in and don't forget to include your Level.
For those who don't know what the RCE is, or who need a refresher, read on.
This is a fun tradition in which everyone who signs in on this thread gets paired with another person, and they communicate back and forth via PMs or emails, decide on a style of beer to brew, work on a recipe together, and then they each brew that recipe. It's a way to try a new style or ingredient or technique. Best of all, you get beer out of it, and you get to know a fellow Borg member a little better.
There aren't any other rules. There's no deadline for coming up with a recipe. You don't have to brew it at the same time as your partner. You don't have to ship your beer to each other unless you want to. You just have to sign up and work with the person you've been randomly assigned.
In order to help with the random selection process, I've broken experience levels down into four categories, as follows:
Level 1 - Have only done HME kits, such as Mr. Beer or Brew Demon.
Level 2 - Have used LME/DME, hop additions, specialty grains
Level 3 - Have done Partial Mash
Level 4 - Have done All Grain
Any level brewer is welcome to participate, and it would be helpful to know if any of the higher level brewers are willing to work with a less experienced brewer, or, conversely, if a less experienced brewer would like to take this opportunity to learn about a new technique from his/her partner.
I'll be closing sign-ins and assigning partners on Feb. 8.
