3 taps - what would you chose?

[aprichman]

If you only had three taps, what would you put on them?

 

[timdillon36]

I happen to have a 3 tap setup. They are IPA of the month, seasonal and sour. I think most would have a house PA or blond, IPA , and seasonal.

 

[mrdauber64]

IPA, seasonal lager(pilsner, Helles, Vienna lager, Oktoberfest...), APA or ESB

I only have three taps and that is what I do. I've tried the Porters and stouts but I don't drink those enough to take up tap room.

 

[Rush]

I have three taps and my goal is to usually have my taps situated as follows:

Tap 1: porter or stout
Tap 2: seasonal/belgian/specialty
Tap 3: Some type of hop forward beer like an APA, IPA, or IIPA

For example, I currently have an Edmund Fitzgerald porter clone, Biermuncher's Centennial Blonde, and an imperial red IPA on tap.

In the end, it's your taps, so it really depends on your personal flavor preferences.

 

[ChemErik]

I currently bottle, but if I had a 3 tap kegerator, I'd go with a session British beer (mild, Irish stout, bitter, Irish Red), a cider, and a seasonal tap. I'd still bottle the occasional big beer that ages well.

 

[inhousebrew]

a hoppy beer a dark beer and a more neutral beer like a ESB or something

 

[crusader1612]

currently:
AmericanPale ale
IIPA
Saison with Brettanomyces
Boysenberry Oud Bruin

I almost always have something hoppy
something seasonal (winter is porter/stout - summer is pilsner/wit)
then the occasional sour and im working pretty hard to nail down a hoppy funky saison (saison yeast co-pitched with strains of brett, aged for a few months thendryhopped heavily. can be quite refreshing

but all in asll, its just what i want to brew or a recipe i'm trying out.
Brews a T'Mave Pivo yesterday, I've got another funky saison booked in, a belgian blonde with brett possibly an imperial stout (i'm trying to fill up my ageing stand before I have surgery which will put me out of drinking and brewing for around 2 months.

 

[kristiismean]

For me:
IPA
Pale Ale
Wheat

 

[day_trippr]

If you only had three taps, what would you put on them?

That's a frightening thought

A hoptacular IPA, a trappist/belgian something or other, and a big ass stout for bed time...

Cheers! (...and plans to expand! )

 

[ChelisHubby]

Blonde , Pale ale and a Porter.

 

[mkelly601]

Sam Adams Brick Red
Pale Ale
Stout

 

[JimRausch]

Hmm, I bottle and tend to have 10-15 varieties available, but if I were forced to limit it to 3, I'd say something light like an American Wheat, something medium maybe an altbier or Vienna lager, and something dark, probably porter. But then I am missing out on a good pale ale, so maybe switch out the wheat for a Rye PA.
D**n, too many good beers to limit yourself to only 3.

 

[tzaccario]

Most likely it would be a Blonde, Pale, and a seasonal/specialty

 

[sky4meplease]

I have a nitro tap on one of my three tap set up.

 

[TBC27]

I currently have 5 taps. My general plan is to have an IPA, stout/porter, Belgian, wheat, and a NA offering like root beer on tap most of the time.

 

[secondbase]

1. Saison
2. English Ale
3. Sour

 

[italarican]

A light dry-hopped ale (wheat, saison, single, etc.)
A light-bodied sour
A quaffable Imperial Stout

 

[chalkboardbrewer]

1. Altbier
2. Nut Brown ale
3. Blonde ale

 

[Braufessor]

#1 = IPA/APA
#2 = Blonde/Kolsch/Pils/Helles type
#3 = Porter/Dark Mild/Amber/Dark Lager type

If I had to just pick 3..... IPA, Blonde and Porter..... Those 3 cover what an awful lot of my visitors like to drink.

 

[antony]

four taps now: pale ale, porter, wheat/ipa/stout, experimental (fruit or some other adjunct). pale ale & porter always, wheat/ipa/stout depending on season/mood.

 

[brick_haus]

IIPa
Amber
Stout

 

[Picker]

Amber or Belgian
Cream of 3 Crops (for the masses)
Graff

 

[JONNYROTTEN]

Ipa/APA
Irish Red
Pilsner/lager

 

[tjmac5071]

1 seltzer
2 pale ale
3 pale ale


I had 4 taps until recently, one was seltzer other three were typically pale ale. Added two more and currently have three pales, seltzer and 2 altbierish. With 1 pale waiting for a tap. I am prepping for a party in September soon by testing some new styles so about to be filling the taps with something different.

 

[Weezy]

One hoppy beer
One low hop beer (cream ale, lagers, Belgian)
One misc for browns, sours, whatever

 

[JONNYROTTEN]

1 seltzer
2 pale ale
3 pale ale


I had 4 taps until recently, one was seltzer other three were typically pale ale. Added two more and currently have three pales, seltzer and 2 altbierish. With 1 pale waiting for a tap. I am prepping for a party in September soon by testing some new styles so about to be filling the taps with something different.

My wife drinks seltzer water, how does it work with a keg? What pressure do you set the reg at for a store bought co2 volume. Do you get any off flavors with the water sitting in the keg for a while? Unless perfect like normal seltzer water she wont drink it.Cant blame her who wants off tasting water

 

[tjosborne]

1 quad
2 something light apa, wheat, esb,ect
3 dipa, stout, Porter, something a bit heavier depending on the season.

 

[buzz1670]

I have a 4 tap keezer.Cider, blonde, brown, lemonade.Lemonade is a hit even in winter

 

[pepindavid]

I recently acquired a fridge that had been modified to be a 4-tap kegerator (4 holes at the front). I currently have two taps, and I'll get two next week.

My plan is to always have on tap these three "types" of beer:
- A "hoppy beer" (IPA, Double IPA, session IPA, maybe APA)
- A "blond" beer (blonde ale, cream ale, pilsner, Kölsch, etc.)
- A "amber" beer (american amber, irish red ale, bitter, California Common, etc.)

The 4th tap will likely be reserved for seltzer (I'd like to experiment with homemade syrups), and maybe sometimes a hard cider, a hard lemonade, that type of things. That' the plan! Now I just have to brew enough in the coming weeks to start the pipeline.

 

[filthyastronaut]

Whatever I damn-well please.