Looking for refreshing springtime beer recipe ideas

[dkrules6]

There is nothing I enjoy more than the first warm day of spring. I'm looking for a spring-summer beer that I can drink out on the lawn in the sun. Leinenkugel summer shandy type, citrusy, whatever ideas anyone has to throw at me. My dad brewed a great lemony wheat beer a long while back and I was hoping to hit him with such a great beer that he starts brewing again.

 

[Lazersgopewpew]

Nothing says Spring to me like a Belgian Wit.
I made one last year with Orange blossom water that was pretty good.
No recipe for you though. The one I made was a basic extract base for a wit beer so I'm looking for a good all grain recipe myself to try it out again.

 

[helibrewer]

Belgian Wit, Kolsch, even a Dusseldorf Alt

 

[Vigo_Carpathian]

I plan on making a hefeweizen that's "dry hopped" with cucumber. Nice and refreshing.

 

[highgravitybacon]

There is nothing I enjoy more than the first warm day of spring. I'm looking for a spring-summer beer that I can drink out on the lawn in the sun. Leinenkugel summer shandy type, citrusy, whatever ideas anyone has to throw at me. My dad brewed a great lemony wheat beer a long while back and I was hoping to hit him with such a great beer that he starts brewing again.

Berliner Weiss
Kolsch
Ginger saison
American wheat
Pilsener
American light lager
Cream ale
Blonde ale
"Anti imperial" anything -- half the SG of pretty much any normal beer. E.g. instead of a 1.055 beer, make a 1.030 beer.

 

[SPR-GRN]

American Wheat, APA or Blonde Ale, dry hopped with Centennial
So many options really; I suggested Centennial for the citrus and floral always reminds me of spring time with the flowers poking out

 

[EyePeeA]

Pseudo-Kolsch APA with Cascade, Amarillo, & Hallertau Mittlefruh, a Pils Malt & White Wheat Malt base, and Wyeast 2565. Fermented around 55-63 F.

 

[Holy_Hops]

Search for the Centennial Blonde recipe here on homebrewtalk. It's a giant thread and a great citrusy-hopped spring-time beer.

 

[HawksBrewer]

Also SD-SLIMs lemon-lime hefeweizen is quite refreshing

 

[Homercidal]

Belgian Wit. No doubt.

 

[mewithstewpid]

I plan on making a hefeweizen that's "dry hopped" with cucumber. Nice and refreshing.

replace the cucumber with citra hops (and also add some blood oranges) and you have my annual summer beer.