I’ve finally reached
another turning point in my homebrewing career.
So far I’ve graduated from extract brewing to all grain to upgrading equipment
to make good beer to experimenting with different styles and methods. I’ve now got my process down and I can make
tasty beer, but more importantly, I’m over trying to brew a gimmicky imperial,
session, double hopped vanilla brett dark saison (or whatever). I’m at the point where I want to make
phenomenal beer. To do so, I think I
have to narrow down my brewing and that’s my goal for 2015 and the near future,
to nail a few different beers. I’m not
saying I’m done experimenting, if anything this process will only increase my
experimenting with hops, yeast strains, blends, etc. However, I am done with the weird beers. I can buy them at the store, because we all know
Rogue is only a month away from releasing a Peanut butter and fluff beer or
something.
My process will be to
start with a base recipe that’s proven or researched online, brew it, then make
one or maybe two changes, then brew it again.
Most importantly though, I am going to only do this for a few different
types of beer that are my favorite and I won’t mind drinking over and over
(especially if they’re good). They are:
hoppy (pale ale/IPA/maybe DIPA), saison, sour/tart (Berliner/Gose/fruited
versions), and then a fourth which will probably be a rotation, but mainly a
dark, roasty beer (milk stout/porter/American stout). That’s it.
Those are the only beers I’m going to brew for the foreseeable future
and I’m going to detail it completely here.
(Note: I am still doing my sour beers, but since so many of them are set
it and forget it, I don’t include them here.)
I’m starting with a
straightforward saison, then a Pale ale.
They’ll be brewed in the next week or two!
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