My wife has informed me that we are having a New Years Eve party and she wants my kegarator ready to go. The problem is, I'm actually a little behind and although I have two beer finishing up their primary now, I need a third to be ready to go on New Years Eve ( have three taps). Here we are just a week before x-mas so I'm thinking that gives me two weeks. The problem is, I live in a relatively small town in North Dakota so I don't have access to a home brew store though there is a health food store that actually has a decent supply of liquid yeast and specialty grains (the owner is a home brewer I believe) though nothing specific is guaranteed.
Anyway, I was thinking a wheat beer could be ready in that time though I don't think I can get malted wheat in time to make it work (would need to be ordered). The health food store has a bunch of unmalted wheat that I've used in an oatmeal wheat stout and I'll use it in a wheat beer if viable but I'm wondering if there is anything else I can do that would be fairly quick?
I have about 25-30 lbs of Briess 2 row by the way so I have the base malt to do something. I have a scant amount (under a pound) of a lot of other specialty grains but if this is for a party I think I need to go somewhat light given the audience (Kolsch, Blonde Ale?)
Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated!!!!!
Anyway, I was thinking a wheat beer could be ready in that time though I don't think I can get malted wheat in time to make it work (would need to be ordered). The health food store has a bunch of unmalted wheat that I've used in an oatmeal wheat stout and I'll use it in a wheat beer if viable but I'm wondering if there is anything else I can do that would be fairly quick?
I have about 25-30 lbs of Briess 2 row by the way so I have the base malt to do something. I have a scant amount (under a pound) of a lot of other specialty grains but if this is for a party I think I need to go somewhat light given the audience (Kolsch, Blonde Ale?)
Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated!!!!!