Low-Carb Homebrew Beer Tasting Tony's New Zealand IPA

My friends are bugging me to make an all grain low-carb beer. Decided to crater and make it, besides, thought I'd learn something new. Brother, did I ever learn some new stuff.

I ran up to Austin Homebrew Supply and discussed low-carb all grain brewing with my buddy Tony. Tony says any beer can be low carb yet full of body, flavor and hops. To prove it he gave me a tasting of his own all grain homebrew Low-Carb New Zealand IPA. Oh my goodness!!

When I went nuts over this brew, Tony offered to make the recipe there for me, even double-crushed the grains especially for brew in a bag.

I'm so thrilled. Home with my huge bag of crushed grains, 7 bags of hops, and the White Labs Australian Ale yeast WLP009. Stay tuned boys and girls, this one's gonna be great! (Will I become a hop-head after all?!!)

Had to double-encode this video to boost the audio, so it lost some quality. Wanted to give you the best chance at hearing what Tony had to say. Didn't take my darned external mic with me, drat!

Filmed with a Kodak Zi8
Edited in Windows 7 with Windows Live Movie Maker

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[pattyww]

@steeljan Alright, so this is the estimate I came up with. Someone please feel free to correct me if there is anything wrong. Calories from alcohol ->Convert abv. to abw, to correct for density 0.071*0.8=0.0568. 0.0568*355ml=20.164g of alcohol*7Cal/g= 141 cal. Calories from remaining carb/protein-> 1.004(FG)*1000/4=1g/L*0.355=0.­355g of carb/protein per 12 oz serving*4Cal/g =1.42Cal. Final: 141+1.42=142.42Cal per 12 oz. serving total. Again just an estimate.

[steeljan]

@pattyww That is way too cool! Thank you! So you first converted the amount of alcohol in a 12 oz serving, converted the volume to weight and then calculated the calories for that. Then you calculated the weight of the remaining carbs in a 12oz serving and calculated its calories. Then added the two together. Not sure I can follow which of those numbers are constants and all of the units, I need to study it more. 0.335g carbs for 12oz seems low to me, but need to study it more.

[steeljan]

Ah, okay, I am probably misunderstanding something here but here's what I get the way your carb calories equation is written:

Calories from remaining carb/protein->

1.004(FG)*1000/4 = 251g/L

251g/L * 0.355 = 89grams per 12oz

89g/12oz * 4 = 356.42CarbCal

Final 141AlcCal + 356CarbCal = 497Cal/12oz

What did I get wrong? That can't be right, yeah?

[TheMrclean1979]

This is Tony.The beer has reduced carb count,not a true low carb beer due to the ABV.Jan feel free to post the recipe.Any ?'s ask Jan or you can email me.

[steeljan]

@TheMrclean1979 Thanks Tony. Hope you like how the video turned out. Cheers!

[rocknrollpriest]

With or without the carbs, that looks good! Yummy!

[lillebjorn]

Anyone know where else you can buy New Zealand beer in Austin!???? Thankyou! (thirsty Ex-pat)

[immolateus]

mmmmmm Citra....my favorite hop

[steeljan]

@trlckykid Thanks a bunch. The thing is, without Craig a lot of us would have never thought about getting into homebrewing. His encouragement and patient teaching makes us all winners. Cheers bro!

[pattyww]

@steeljan Sorry I guess I jumbled it up a bit. The 1000 multiplication was a bit of a typo, what I meant was to take the 1.004 and take away the decimal and first two digits, 04, then divide by 4 to get his FG in degrees plato (01 deg. plato = 1g/L) (ex. sg of 1.040 = 10 deg plato). I then multiplied his FG: 1g/L by .355L to get .355g of carb in 12 oz. of beer. Since 1g of carb is 4Cal, you multiply .355g*4=1.42CarbCal. Sorry if that is just as confusing!

[pattyww]

@steeljan Ok, I need to look into this more, I may have miscalculated a little. I'll get back to you on this one!