Best hot weather beer.

I'm looking for a great recipe for hot weather.

I'm not ready for lagering, so a light refreshing brew that you would want after a day of playing football, or digging ditches.

Something that would really cool you off.

Since you can't lager:

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f62/cream-three-crops-cream-ale-66503/

Well tested and a nice lite brew for those hot summers.

Heck yeah, 3 Crops is Teh Awsum.

If you look in my recipe dropdown for Schmi...etc. (or click here), you'll find a recipe for a 1950s Brooklyn-style lager that works great as a Cream Ale. Just ferment cool (~65F) with Notty or S-05.

Cheers,

Bob

Berliner Weisse is the best summer beer I've ever made. So good I made 2 10g batches this summer. Man is it refreshing.

Wit beer gets my vote.

BM's Centennial Blonde was the house favorite this summer and is now my regular on tap. Crisp, light, and easy to brew. I am going to have to try that cream of the crops cream ale though, it is always being mentioned in questions like this.

I always reach for Saison in the summer.. but Berliner Weisse sounds tasty also.

+1 for Wit.

Strong Golden Ale

Cream ale is the refreshing beer that the mass-market American lagers wish they could be. When I brew it, it's not anybody's favorite beer, but everyone likes it at least somewhat in hot weather. Wit's a good choice too, and when next summer rolls around I'm probably dusting off my honey wit recipe (short version: make a witbier, dump in 6-8 pounds of honey at flameout, hop just a tiny bit more than you would normally do for a wit, and warn people about the gravity).

Or you could do what I did for this August: a Belgian tripel with a honey adjunct instead of the usual sugar, and push it up to about 10%. Don't warn anybody, if you're feeling cruel; brewed right, you can get a beer that's got the refreshing body of a lighter cream ale and the gravity of a barleywine. After a day of exercise, it hits you like a rock.

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Kolsch, Hefeweizen, or Wit.

Wit. My goal for next summer is to perfect that style.

I like my session pale ale for this. 3.7% nice hops, about 25ibu and a ton of finishing hops. Good and not strong enough to slow down the afternoons work.

Gose.

Traditional Bavarian weisse, like EdWort's.

I would suggest a cream ale, served cold. It's the perfect lawnmower beer!

Biermunchers "Cream of Three Crops" is excellent, and I have a cream ale recipe posted as well.

They are AG recipes, but can be easily converted to extract for extract brewers.

I prefer Ed Worts's Kolsch myself.

Thanks for all the great suggestions.

The session pale ale really caught my eye, as well as the cream ales.

The most interesting answer was for the 10% ABV Belgian tripel with honey adjunct. After mowing the lawn in 108 degrees, not to sure about that one.

By the by, I am totally in love with your brewery theme.

The road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began...

[hums happily]



Bob

Hefeweizens are a favorite of mine in the summer. Actually, they taste pretty good any time of the year.

Hammy71 said:

Since you can't lager:

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f62/cream-three-crops-cream-ale-66503/

Well tested and a nice lite brew for those hot summers.

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This is one of my go to beers for hot weather. +1 here. :rockin:

drkaeppel said:

Hefeweizens are a favorite of mine in the summer. Actually, they taste pretty good any time of the year.

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Yup me too.

it's a tie for me: kolsch and wit. I'm brewing my first kolsch this month.