I've recently managed to quire a few 1 gallon demijohns and I was thinking about setting up some trial batches. Just make up a few one gallon beers of different styles, bottle and taste before I commit myself to using a large amount of ingredients for a beer that I may not like.
Im just looking for suggestions. Im dead keen on trying an American IPA. This is apparently the beer that turned the US from the land that wrought CMB on the world to the premier beer country. I was looking for a fine example. Would the All Amarillo be a good example? Reading the thread it seems to benefit from a 25% increase in hops.
Since the volume will be small I thought it might be an idea to try some all grain recipies as well as extract recipies in there, just to (not literally) get my feet wet, but I really dont know if this would be advisable.
Ill probably be going for something along the lines of 3 different beers to try initially. And Im really looking for things that really exemplify the reason for homebrewing; interesting flavourful and different.
PS I realize I could go out and buy a commercial beer that tastes like style X, but that just seems like cheating
Im just looking for suggestions. Im dead keen on trying an American IPA. This is apparently the beer that turned the US from the land that wrought CMB on the world to the premier beer country. I was looking for a fine example. Would the All Amarillo be a good example? Reading the thread it seems to benefit from a 25% increase in hops.
Since the volume will be small I thought it might be an idea to try some all grain recipies as well as extract recipies in there, just to (not literally) get my feet wet, but I really dont know if this would be advisable.
Ill probably be going for something along the lines of 3 different beers to try initially. And Im really looking for things that really exemplify the reason for homebrewing; interesting flavourful and different.
PS I realize I could go out and buy a commercial beer that tastes like style X, but that just seems like cheating