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MoreBeer’s Lunar Shock Homebrew Recipe Kit
Lunar Shock is an American Wheat ale, with orange peel and coriander added. It pays homage to Blue Moon and Shock Top, and that’s where it also draws inspiration for the name. It’s an easy-drinking beer that will appeal to the macro-beer drinkers that come to your party.
Unboxing and Kit Inventory
This comes in an extract version and an all-grain version. The all-grain kit can come with grain either crushed or non-crushed. I opted for un-milled grains, as I like to crush my own to have control of the grain crush.
The malts were packaged in pre-measured bags of 5 lb and 1 lb increments, from Viking Malts. Therefore it was easy to cross-reference to the recipe card to confirm I got the right amounts of everything. The hops came in light-proof, thick bags, where the hops were nitrogen flushed before bagging. The recipe kits from MoreBeer don’t come with a specific yeast, instead they give you a list of yeast recommendations from the different yeast vendors they carry (White Labs, Wyeast, Gigayeast, Imperial, and Omega). I hadn’t used Gigayeast before, so I opted for the GY001 – Norcal #1. Gigayeast packages contain 200 billion yeast cells, which they say can be used as a straight pitch without a starter to ferment 5 gallons of wort up to 1.070 gravity (if pitched within 3 months of the date on the pouch). I received it 1.5 months after production date, and brewed at just under 2.5 months after production date, so I skipped the starter. That was a nice time saver. The yeast came inside a foil-lined bubble wrap padded envelope with an ice pack. Things were still cool inside after a FedEx shipment from PA to MI- not cold, but sufficient. In addition to the ingredients, there was a recipe card with basic brewing directions, a cut-out shape to go with the MoreBeer custom tap handle, and a sheet of basic brewing process tips.
Great Western Wheat Malt Viking 2 Row Xtra Pale MaltHallertau Mittelfruh HopsGigaYeast GY001Easy to Follow Recipe Card + Tap Handle Insert: In addition to the ingredients, there was a recipe card with basic brewing directions, a cut-out shape to go with the MoreBeer custom tap handle, and a sheet of basic brewing process tips.
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