Getting a hed

My brother came down from Boston over the weekend and brought me a hed pack, so I'm sorta back in business. A hed pack is a 15kg, 33lb, jug of liquid malt which is great if you're an extract brewer.

But you may have noticed that I'm not an extract brewer - so why did I have my brother break his back lugging this thing down?

Simple it's for Malt Beverages and Bad Experiment Ideas

I've got an excellent recipe for hard lemonade based on the work of the Long River Brewer. I've tweaked his recipe a little, but credit where credit is due - I'll post my revised recipe when I make it (I may tweak it some more), as well as some warnings about really bad variants you may be tempted to try.

One of my friends wants me to try making some hard ice tea. There's almost no good info on that online (there's a fair amount on the use of tea as a component in beer, but not much on the use of malt as a component in tea), so once again I am going trailblazing. Remember that trailblazing often ends with you walking off a cliff, so I'm not saying it's a good idea, only that I'll let you know whether or not it's worth pursuing.

Depending on how bored I get with that I may try and make some malted iced coffee.

I'll also use it to make my peanut butter porter - since the only flavor compounds I'm shooting for are peanut butter and chocolate.

[update]: that should have been 'hed' not 'head'