Well, my father-in-law is one stubborn beer drinker. He thinks anything but Bud Light is pretty terrible. Well, being a homebrewer I felt like that was a great excuse to challenge myself and decided to come up with a Bud Light clone to see if I could make a beer he would willingly drink. To that end, I took to the Internet to find information on what goes into a Bud Light and how I could recreate one. Unfortunately I had to substitute flaked maze for the flaked rice as my local homebrew store doesn’t carry flaked rice. Oh well, hopefully it turns out close enough!

I started off the brew session a bit later than planned, but overall it went as expected. Just meant I ended up starting the boil after dark… and when you brew in the back yard, it means you have to use a head lamp for a lot of it!

Brew day breakdown

	I upgraded this year to a mash tun that lets me to very high gravity or do 10 gallon batches. Being a 5 gallon Bud Light clone made the mash seem pretty small.
	I did manage to hit my mash temperature perfectly though!
	Starting to collect the wort for the boil
	Started the 60 minute boil after dark. This was a first for me. The head lamp came in super handy.
	Transferring into the fermenter.
	And into the fermentation chamber.

Recipe