question on short fermentation

[fretbrner]

Hey, What are some good styles that only need a month from wort to fully bottled and carbed? I know most ales don't take that long. I was going to enter a competition, and only heard about it today. Its in mid April.

 

[BierMuncher]

All grain or extract?

Keg or bottle?

 

[fretbrner]

sorry. They will be all grain, going into bottles, although I could force carb if I have to

 

[BierMuncher]

Keep it lower hops and lower gravity.

• Mild Brown Ale
• English Ordinary Bitters
• Cream Ale
• American Wheat or Rye
• Hefe-Weizen
• Dry Stout

The first three styles will be judged on clarity so kegging, chilling as long as you can and force carbing would be the way to go.

 

[user 22118]

Any beer under 5% if you ask me. You have to really take care of the fermentation though and make sure that you have a good ferment, have the yeast floc out and then you can bottle right away. When I am doing this, I like to use US-05.

Stout
10 gallon recipe

15lbs American 2 row
1 lb Chocolate
.75 lb Crystal 90L
.75 lb Black Patent
1 lb Black Roasted

2 oz Fuggles (60min)
2 oz Fuggles (5 min)

Nottingham yeast

This is a really tasty recipe that tastes fantastic soon and also a bit down the road if you can't drink it all fast enough.

 

[fretbrner]

I think a cream ale would be great though. Have never tried to do any of this before.

I was thinking of doing 4 styles and just taking the best of two:
pale ale
cream ale
milk chocolate stout
irish red
ESB
weizen

Just trying to formulate recipes and fermentation times for these.

Although, I may just make two larger batches, and experiment with hops and yeast, and see what I get at the end.

So far, I have produces some really good beer, but none that I feel will win. so, I figure try newer recipes and see what I get.

 

[fretbrner]

Thanks Matt for the recipe, but I feel like I would be cheating if I used someones else's tried and true recipe.

 

[user 22118]

Change the recipe to suit your needs, but it looks to me that you are looking for a lighter recipe anyways. Biermuncher is definitley worth listening to and check out his recipes. They are great and he stays at a good alcohol range for doing this type of beer that can be bottled rapidly.

 

[fretbrner]

yea, I am a bit into lighter recipes. I do like darker beers, but am not much of a fan of regular stout. Tastes like coffee.

I think I got what I am going to try
1) a cream ale, split into two fermentations, with Vanilla being added to the second batch
2) a kolsch style or pale ale
3) a hefewiezen split into two fermentations, with the second having blueberry added
4) a regular american ale, split into two, with blackberry added to the second batch

May skip the Kolsch and pale ale, but this would give me a possible of six possible entries, while taken two with me. I may add something different the the blackberry, but trying to think of something different.