Girly Ale

[ed_brews_now]

I was walking with a girly girl acquaintance and I told her about my beer making. One comment she said was that she tasted a homebrew before and it was bitter and she said I should try making a sweet one. In the back of my mind I was thinking that was probably an IPA or a home brewers hophead special, but not a mistake.

So a few days later I went to test the gravity of my fermenting ale in which I had over-diluted the extract. It was light and still sweet. The bitterness did not come through. So I recalled what my friend said at that moment and thought OMG this is going to be a girly beer, can't bring the boys over to share this/ But then I though again: maybe the un tapped market is girly ales. Stella and bud light seem to have the lager market corners. Breaking the girl/ale frontier is next for the commerical brewers.

 

[GetLooseontheGoose]

Funny, SWMBO just told me tonight I should make a beer with little to no hops. Basically a malty girly beer.

WTF

 

[lumpher]

they already do that. it's called bud light/miller lite/coors light.

 

[batty]

haha. the girl not only loves her hops, but is the co-brewer. but hey, who doesn't love a hefe or kolsch? I certainly do.

 

[Cubslover]

Can't invite the guys over, but you still can inviter her. :insert drooly face:

 

[Vance71975]

I would call myself a hop head, i have brewed many beers with over a pound of hops, But i also enjoy a good porter with an ounce or less bittering hops and nothing else.

My woman is also my Co Brewer, she is NOT a hop head, but the girl does love her Amarillo and would use it in every brew i make if she had her way.

 

[Burgs]

My younger sister (she's 23, I'm 27) drinks lite BMC type beers pretty exclusively, but enjoyed a buddy's Kolsch when we poured her one. I could see that being a good gateway beer.

 

[Yooper]

I personally think a "girly ale" is an IPA or an IIPA. That's what I make best.

 

[Danbreeze]

I made the Blue Balls clone from Biermuncher before for the wife and she loves it.

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f71/blue-balls-belgian-wit-blue-moon-clone-24978/

It opened her mind up to trying other beers she would have normally avoided.

 

[elkdog]

My wife loves all sort of beers. Not sure "girly" means a lot- a lot of dudes drink BMC and don't like "bitter" beers. That said, Scottish Ale, Irish Red, and Milk Stout are great beers for someone who's not accustomed to a hefty hop presence.

 

[Varroa]

Sounds just like my wife. She keeps asking me to brew beers without hops. My very first beer was a pre-hopped extract beer that I boiled all the hops out of and she loved it.

 

[SeaBass512]

My better half kept bothering me to make her a beer, something sweet or fruity. I used a recipe for an apricot blonde I found on here, but used peach puree in the secondary instead, with apricot extract at bottling. Worrying about it being too sweet, I racked it onto a pale ale yeast cake. I know that won't add alot of bitterness, but maybe take the edge off.
Let's hope she likes it, it'll be ready next week for her bday!

 

[loapathy]

The girlfriend's favorite beer is a "belgian" double IPA or whatever they're being called now. Basically a a hop bomb of a double IPA, 2 oz of warrior for bittering and 2oz of simcoe, 1oz of cascade, and 1oz for aroma/flavor, dry hopped with either warrior or simcoe. It is not for the faint of heart; even when underpitched with Chimay yeast to make the yeasty belgian flavors come out, it's hop decimation.

 

[Vance71975]

The girlfriend's favorite beer is a "belgian" double IPA or whatever they're being called now. Basically a a hop bomb of a double IPA, 2 oz of warrior for bittering and 2oz of simcoe, 1oz of cascade, and 1oz for aroma/flavor, dry hopped with either warrior or simcoe. It is not for the faint of heart; even when underpitched with Chimay yeast to make the yeasty belgian flavors come out, it's hop decimation.

That's a good woman there! Keep that one around!!!