Summer brew suggestions

[MicroBrewMaster]

Looking for once to be ahead of the seasons and have my beer be ready. Been browsing through so many recipes and can't decide so figured I would ask anyone for one that they suggest.
I do pm or extract
And I hate fruit beers haha
Other than that I would love anyone's favorite that they brew
Thanks

 

[david_42]

My favorite summer beer is Bent Rod Rye. Took a long time to perfect a hoppy, low-gravity beer.

 

[BradleyBrew]

Saisons are about my favorite summer beers. Besides that blonde ales, Wits, Hefe's, a nice lighter bodied pale ale.

 

[veritas524]

Cream of three crops is a crowd pleasure for if you have a summer BBQ.

 

[unionrdr]

Wheat beers & pale ales with some good hoping are always crowd pleasers. I like to brew an English bitter to go with pit bbq also. They make good mop sauces,& fit the smokey flavors well.

 

[jmprdood]

I think you are wide open - something that is lower in OG, around 1040ish. I'm partial to a good wheat or blonde ale for summer time...

Cheers!

 

[bkorver]

I plan to brew a blonde ale and infuse some type of apricot into it for my wife. For me, a watermelon wheat sounds awfully good for summer...

 

[Jdk261]

I have some hefeweizen fermenting away and a pilsner that has been layering for about 5 weeks so far.

The watermelon wheat suggestion sounds great, but I just don't know if I can duplicate that crisp clean watermelon taste like 21a...I may just have to give it a try...

 

[Zamial]

I have found that I do not drink only "Beer X" in a drinking session regardless of the season.


A typical fishing/camping day would go something like:
For breakfast a cool (not ice cold) caffeinated breakfast stout with my eggs and bacon. Then I generally have red/darker wheat beer before lunch. Lunch time I switch to pilsner/cream ale/kolsh or other lighter beer. After lunch and a game of horse shoes a Skeeter Pee is perfect. Then in the late afternoon I switch to Pale ales or an IPA. Dinner I try to pair a beer or wine to the meal. Then around a campfire I like to have Scotch Ale, Smoked/Wood Aged Ale, Dopplebock or Rye. I will also send around a bottle of wine, typically apfel or Skeeter Pee.

All that being said I recommend a batch of Skeeter Pee and a Kolsh ASAP.

 

[zacster]

I like a cold lager on a summer day. I just made an American Lager recipe and I'll try to keep it around until summer, and if not, well I can't make any more because of the temp control issue. It will be light and crisp when its done, but not like a BMC because I made it myself.

 

[Daybis]

I like cream ales, blond ales, and wheat beers during the summer months.

 

[sfrisby]

The watermelon wheat suggestion sounds great, but I just don't know if I can duplicate that crisp clean watermelon taste like 21a...I may just have to give it a try...

Do a search for loranns watermellon. Add 1 dram of Lorann oils watermellon to 5 gallons after fermentation. Great poolside brew.

 

[MicroBrewMaster]

thanks guys will be looking through all those suggestions to come up with something different

 

[asidrane]

The Wit recipe from Brewing Classic Styles is a great summer beer.

 

[Jdk261]

Do a search for loranns watermellon. Add 1 dram of Lorann oils watermellon to 5 gallons after fermentation. Great poolside brew.

I just might do that. Thanks!

 

[atgunning]

Saison, Saison and more saison. Screw it, throw in a rye IPA for the hell of it, then make more saison.

 

[uncommonsense]

Saison with elder flowers and american hops