VOTE: What should our house beers be?

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Matt O
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VOTE: What should our house beers be?
Amber Hybrid (Altbier, Cal Common)
6% (1 vote)
English Pales (Bitter, ESB,etc)
17% (3 votes)
Cream Ale/Kolsh (Ale yeast)
11% (2 votes)
Stout (Dry, sweet, oatmeal, american)
17% (3 votes)
Belgian/French (BPA, Wit, Saison)
11% (2 votes)
American IPA
33% (6 votes)
Other - leave it below
6% (1 vote)
Total votes: 18

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I need the club's feedback on which styles and recipes to pick as our 4 house beers, on rotation every month. A pale ale and a wheat are already #1 and 2 unless no one would likes them.

The goal here is to have 4 beers that are:

  • Easy to make for any level brewer (no hard to find ingredients, advanced processes)
  • Cost effective - reuasble yeast, buying bulk grain, hops, etc.
  • Popular with most drinkers 

I have already brewed an american pale ale and an american wheat, pitching on the former's WYEAST 1056 yeast cake. These recipes are already under the 'Recipe' tab up top, they are based on Brewing Classic Styles with some tweaks.

We can have a seasonal beer a part of this too, I only want suggestions for summer at this time. 

If you want to submit a style, bring your best recipe and throw down below.

 

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no castle.pdf

no castle.pdf

I'd like to submit my Northern English Brown Ale for consideration.  It doesn't blow minds or win contests, its just a nice tasting, easy drinking beer, one of my standby recipes.  Feel free to change the name, it's not a newcastle clone or anything, I just needed to name the file.  It's low alcohol, mostly Marris Otter, with some Brown Malt for a nice roasty, nutty thing going on, and some Victory for the roasty, biscuity, thing that happens with that.  Mash high for nice body.  It's very very simple to brew, and really hard to mess up.  I think it would be a good beer to put in the rotation.   

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Joe, thanks for the recipe -

Joe, thanks for the recipe - I dig the style - its not something that I brew much of but like a lot. I would recommend that we add this in lieu of an English bitter/ESB. 

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And to those who voted IPA,

And to those who voted IPA, would you rather scratch the APA and just got with an IPA?

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Depending on the recipe of

Depending on the recipe of each, I think you could easily have both an APA and IPA in rotation. Plus, each are good nice weather drinkers.

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I like Joe's recipe.  It

I like Joe's recipe.  It would be good to have a style that isn't very common on tap.

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Another vote for Joe's recipe

Another vote for Joe's recipe

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A bit over stouts!

A bit over stouts!

A vote for Joe's recipe...

Matt O
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How about a black IPA in

How about a black IPA in addition to pale ale?? I am going to close voting this Sunday.

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Oh, yeah, my vote is for

Oh, yeah, my vote is for black IPA.

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I would like an Irish red ale

I would like an Irish red ale on tap.

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We need 4 right? Or at least

We need 4 right? Or at least 4 is the goal. Let's do a strong (in terms of ABV and/or taste) dark and a mild dark, and a strong light and a mild light. So like, A Black IPA and my brown ale, and an IPA and Kolsch. I think a scheme like that covers a lot of ground and has something that will come close to satisfying any taste. Some drinkable stuff for hanging out, some deeper flavor stuff for when hanging out gets serious.

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You voted, here are the

You voted, here are the winners:

American Pale Ale

American Wheat

American IPA

Joe's Northern English Brown

 

Runners up/Seasonal:

Stout

Irish Red

 

Submit recipes for each if you'd like.

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Matt, which of these are you

Matt, which of these are you planning to brew at the upcoming Brewsday(s)?  

I won't be able to make 4/29, but I'm hoping to be there in May 

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If I dont get any kickback I

If I dont get any kickback I will look into a black IPA first seeing as we have yeast for it. If you feel you have an IPA worthy of club level, let me know.

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Not sure yet. It's between

Not sure yet. It's between IPA and Northern english brown. I am leaning towards a black IPA, I have a recipe that worked well the 2x I brewed it before.

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We are going to make this

We are going to make this black IPA Tuesday. Any changes desired, speak now or hold your peace...unitl the next time it's brewed..

Hope schedule might be changed to reflect what we have on hand..

For 5.5 Gallons:

Mash: 60 min @ 152 (assuming 70% efficiency)

10lbs 2-row
12oz victory
12oz crystal 60L
6oz carafa III
6oz chocolate

Boil:

1oz centennial (7.8% AA) 60 min
1oz centennial 30 min
1oz centennial 20 min
1oz cascade (7% AA) 15 min
1oz cascade flameout
1oz willamette (4.5% AA)flameout
1oz cascade dry hop (7 days)
1oz willamette dry hop (7 days)

WYEAST ten fiddy six

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Matt...you might get better

Matt...you might get better feedback if you break this into a different post title CHAOS Black IPA Recipe.