Anybody else brew beers you never really intend to drink?

[Flipadelphia]

no

 

[AnOldUR]

Got a Cream Ale that I’ve been brewing exclusively for a neighbor . . . Actually entered it into competition that’s being judged this weekend. Since it’s not a style I care for, figured it might be a good idea to see if I’m doing it right.

Well, that was ugly. Scored a 26.5. Guess my neighbors are just polite.

Lesson for the day:
If you don't like how it tastes, don't serve it.

If it looks like a duck and it quacks like a duck
And there's duck-do on your pick-up truck
Buddy you can bet your bottom buck
It ain't no armadillo

 

[SmCranf]

I brew a honey cream ale for my girlfriend, a honey beer for my honey

 

[rico567]

No, never. Well....I useta did. I would brew "Fruity Pebbles" (a clone of Leinenkugel Sunset Wheat) because the females hereabouts would drink it. Then they quit, and I haven't brewed it since- because it comes under the category of "a beer I wouldn't drink."

 

[grathan]

I run gambles sometimes on beer. Most times though I am maintaining the pipeline, but if I am caught up and want to brew an experimental batch with crazy ideas, (usually turn out awful and get dumped) it can be fun.

 

[Wig]

The only beer I'd say I brewed that I had no intention to drink from the get go was a Chocolate Habanero Sweet Stout. A coworker had enjoyed some other beers I gave to him, and being a connoisseur of peppers, he asked if I could make a pepper beer. I said sure. He brought me some chocolate habaneros from his garden and I thought I made a good choice for the brew

I researched how to use peppers, to try and get more flavor vice the heat. He said he liked it. I tried one for the heck of it after his praise, and I should have heeded me own call to not drink it. It was way to hot, it was hard to drink.

 

[Eugenio]

Yup......Once heard of a commercial brewery that fermented beer with yeast isolated from the beard of the brewmaster.....aaaaannnndd in keeping with the spirit of being a mad scientist, I brewed and extra 3 gallons of wort for my bushwick lager, separated it and dropped a dozen or so of my own beard hairs in it. Sure enough it worked....produced a surprising lager that was not bad at all, definitely a sour beer......couldn't find anyone willing to drink it though so I dumped it.

I must try this.

 

[fearwig]

Beard hairs in the fermenter. New meaning to the term "clone".