anemic
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Aboard the sailboat there are certain beer rules. No glass is the chief beer law of the boat. So an ideal homebrew for the sailboat would taste perfectly fine straight out of the bottle; make that a PET screw top bottle.
So we want to develop or find a recipe that we can tip a bottle back and forth and ingest the yeast and it will be fine that way.
Then there is IPA history, of hops as preservative for the beer's long hot voyage from the UK to India around the Horn. Very cool story! I like that idea because the icebox is relatively small, so a few beers might go into the icebox, and the rest go into a hold low in the hull, as you pull out a cold one, you replace it. For most of the summer, the hold might be fairly chilly due to the adjacent cold water. When the water is warm however the contents also warm, so hops might be an excellent idea to preserve the good brew.
If the beer is chill enough from the hold in the early season, maybe we'll have it at that temp, so like a good English Ale served at 55 degrees, we might want that quality. However when it gets warmer, we may want to toss some on ice, because we will have that hot summer day when a truly cold beer sounds perfect. So maybe we want that quality too.
Ideally, we would provide these brews to the crew, and might go through 10 cases in a summer so it would be grand if the recipe were in the low $20 range to keep a lid on costs.
Do you have any ideas which style, or recipe, might fit the bill? Cream Ale? IPA? American Wheat? Weissbier? Other?
Thanks
anemic
So we want to develop or find a recipe that we can tip a bottle back and forth and ingest the yeast and it will be fine that way.
Then there is IPA history, of hops as preservative for the beer's long hot voyage from the UK to India around the Horn. Very cool story! I like that idea because the icebox is relatively small, so a few beers might go into the icebox, and the rest go into a hold low in the hull, as you pull out a cold one, you replace it. For most of the summer, the hold might be fairly chilly due to the adjacent cold water. When the water is warm however the contents also warm, so hops might be an excellent idea to preserve the good brew.
If the beer is chill enough from the hold in the early season, maybe we'll have it at that temp, so like a good English Ale served at 55 degrees, we might want that quality. However when it gets warmer, we may want to toss some on ice, because we will have that hot summer day when a truly cold beer sounds perfect. So maybe we want that quality too.
Ideally, we would provide these brews to the crew, and might go through 10 cases in a summer so it would be grand if the recipe were in the low $20 range to keep a lid on costs.
Do you have any ideas which style, or recipe, might fit the bill? Cream Ale? IPA? American Wheat? Weissbier? Other?
Thanks
anemic