Steve Jackson > wrote:
> wrote:
>> Are there any other small beers so
>> around the USA? I would like to purchase some so I could have a better
>> idea. I do not live in San Francisco, and Anchor has a limited
>> distribution of this beer.
>
>There aren't any others that I'm aware of. One thing to keep in mind is it's
>not a style; it's a technique. And it is a somewhat archaic one at that.
....
>Historically, it was more common to simply drain the liquid from the initial
>mash, make a beer from that, add more liquid and drain again, make a
>different beer from that, etc. It's one of the origins of the naming
>convention still seen in some Belgian beers of double, triple, etc.

I will note that the technique is still used by homebrewers.
For example, Saturday I brewed a double batch of Foreign Extra
Stout with a friend. After we had collected enough wort for
the primary beer, the gravity of the runnings was still fairly
high so we collected more wort and made a "small beer" (like
a Brit-style dark mild).
I also sometimes make a barleywine and use the second
runnings for something like an Ordinary Bitter.
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