i have to keep fizzy yellow beer on tap.

[fluketamer]

i brewed a ton of lagers in the past 2 years and my bud drinking friends really love them. i switched over to hoppy ales and pilsners and said friends are not pleased. we have prolly had this discussion before but do others have this problem where they need to keep fizzy yellow beer on tap . so you dont get hop face (the face bud drinkers sometimes make when a beer has flavor in it) . it helped a little when i told him its grapefruity but this is the first time he didnt go back for more.

 

[MaxStout]

Brew the beers you like. If your friends don't like them, tell 'em they can BYOB.

 

[Broken Crow]

Hmmm....
When this thread fills up a bit more, I recommend you show it to them (I just read your other 'catty' post)
There is no reason other than your own deep generosity, to keep a subpar beer occupying one of the precious taps in your lovingly built rig.
If they have no taste and no interest in developing one, that's entirely on them.
I wouldn't waste a precious tap on anything I don't enjoy myself.
You are a kinder man than I.

 

[An Ankoù]

Are we talking about decent, tasty lager here or have you tried to brew all the goodness out of it by making a Bud clone? If the former, then why not, provided you enjoy it as well. If the latter then congratulations on the copy, but I should send the lads packing or invite them to bring their own.

 

[mac_1103]

Most of my friends actually prefer beers that taste like something. When I'm having a large gathering and I know there will be Miller Lite drinkers in the crowd, I buy some Miller Lite.

 

[fluketamer]

Are we talking about decent, tasty lager here or have you tried to brew all the goodness out of it by making a Bud clone? If the former, then why not, provided you enjoy it as well. If the latter then congratulations on the copy, but I should send the lads packing or invite them to bring their own.

no they are really good non adjunct lagers ( not that theres anythign wrong with adjunct lagers) that i enjoyed a ton of i just got bored of them and switched to ales. fortunately summers coming and i need a crisp lager on tap anyway.

 

[Womble]

Hmmm....
When this thread fills up a bit more, I recommend you show it to them (I just read your other 'catty' post)
There is no reason other than your own deep generosity, to keep a subpar beer occupying one of the precious taps in your lovingly built rig.
If they have no taste and no interest in developing one, that's entirely on them.
I wouldn't waste a precious tap on anything I don't enjoy myself.
You are a kinder man than I.

I like brewing for other people's tastes, it's challenging and also gets me out of my comfort zone, moving on and learning new things. My latest challenge is to brew a beer for a lady friend who doesn't like beer. I am looking at a ridiculously low hopped, totally malt forward European style golden ale. We will see.

 

[An Ankoù]

no they are really good non adjunct lagers ( not that theres anythign wrong with adjunct lagers) that i enjoyed a ton of i just got bored of them and switched to ales. fortunately summers coming and i need a crisp lager on tap anyway.

Are these adjunct lagers what you call "cream ale"? I've been meaning to try one for ages.

 

[fluketamer]

i made several adjunct lagers that i would call american or mexican (corona) style lagers. they are super crushable but quickly get boring when you have 5- 10 gallons on tap.

usually just substitue .5 to 1 lb of base malt for dextrose or flaked corn or instant rice or grits etc. usually used either CS baja or 34/70. mostly 34/70 .

they always came out good. but once i started leaving out the adjunct and just using all malt i liked them better. and they still werent too heavy drinking.

 

[Willy]

Lagers take a long time to make - if you wanna, you know ... Lager. (Cold storage for 4-6 weeks = "Lager")

So I got a make something I love ... A Czech Pilsner clone of Urquell, a German Lager with Hallertau /mittlefr however you spell it. The Czech pilsner style is quite demanding to really nail it.
Me? I have a few cans of Miller Lite and Modelo on hand if someone wants to stay on their micro-sized reservation. Ha.

 

[Snuffy]

Most of my friends actually prefer beers that taste like something. When I'm having a large gathering and I know there will be Miller Lite drinkers in the crowd, I buy some Miller Lite.

The only way I would ever buy ML is if it were a dying man's last request. If I have some <fill-in-the-blank> Lite drinkers coming over, they will get Yuengling or Modelo or maybe Bohemia, if I can find it, and like it. If they gripe, then next time they come it's Milwaukee's Best and PBR.

 

[fluketamer]

The only way I would ever buy ML is if it were a dying man's last request. If I have some <fill-in-the-blank> Lite drinkers coming over, they will get Yuengling or Modelo or maybe Bohemia, if I can find it, and like it. If they gripe, then next time they come it's Milwaukee's Best and PBR.

hey i like pbr

 

[Snuffy]

hey i like pbr

O...k. Then in that case, yes, cat pee could potentially be a compliment.

 

[Deadalus]

Have you tried brewing British Golden, Kolsch, or American Wheat? Munich Helles?

 

[worlddivides]

I don't think you should make anything you don't want to. As the saying goes, beggars can't be choosers. If they want fizzy light low-flavor lagers, they can bring their own. On the other hand, if there's a lager that you want to make and drink yourself that you think they might enjoy, you could make that, but I don't see why you'd spend the time and money to make something you don't really want to make or drink when you could make something more enjoyable. If Bud Lite's what they want to drink, it'd be cheaper to just buy a pack of Bud Lite than to brew a clone.

 

[seatazzz]

I do like a fizzy yellow beer on occasion, and have made a few good ones. I like to have one on tap most of the time, mainly to clear my palate when I've had too much of the other beer I like to make; super hoppy NEIPAs. And since they are a bit more difficult to get right, it's actually a challenge to my brewing skill to make a good fizzy yellow beer.

 

[Skeeter686]

You mentioned having 5 to 10 gallons on tap. If you're brewing large quantities of this beer but you get bored of it, could you possibly brew a split batch, where you have 5 (or maybe only 2.5) gallons for your friends, and ferment the other portion for yourself with dry hops or whatever?

In theory, it shouldn't take much extra time, because you're only mashing once. You could possibly spilt the boil (gives you more flexibility for hop additions) or just split it for fermenting.

Like someone else mentioned, I enjoy brewing for friends, as long as it's not too inconvenient. I'm currently playing around with ideas for a candy sour for a friend who doesn't usually like beer, but is still cool enough to hang out with us when we hit breweries.

 

[Bramling Cross]

Try playing with the gravity on your fizzy yellow swills. When I embarked on my COVID-era fizzy yellow swill project, I quickly decided that ~1.047 made for a more enjoyable beer with a much punchier grist presence. Historically speaking, 1.035 fizzy yellow swill is a very recent innovation and accounts for a small percentage of the style's historical existence. Currently, I'm guzzling a 1.057 @ 6.5% fizzy yellow swill that I think is every bit as beguiling as a Tripel in terms of it's effortless guzzle-ability mixed with potency. In fairness, I seldom brew above 1.045, so it's a huge beer by my standards. But it's not a huge beer by the standards of fizzy yellow swill's history, a 1.057 fizzy yellow swill wouldn't have raised any eyebrows in the mid-19th Century Ohio Valley, where the style originated. It was good beer then and it's good beer now.

Also, try goofing around with unconventional hopping methods. There's no rule that says you can't whirlpool hop or dry hop a fizzy yellow swill. I made a really amazing dip hopped German pils with Liberty several years ago. I really need to revisit dip hopping. Trouble is, it makes yeast harvesting a real pain.

If all of that fails, get better friends. Especially if they think it's free beer because it's homebrew.

 

[mac_1103]

The only way I would ever buy ML is if it were a dying man's last request.

My son will always take the leftovers off my hands. He drinks plenty of good beer, but sometimes he and his buddies feel like drinking all day and would rather have that mean one thousand calories instead of two or three.

 

[Snuffy]

My son will always take the leftovers off my hands. He drinks plenty of good beer, but sometimes he and his buddies feel like drinking all day and would rather have that mean one thousand calories instead of two or three.

We have leftover beer here a lot during the summer and it's usually stuff I would never buy. Lime flavored this and Pomegranate that. Hard Teas and skinny can whatever. I load those up and take them camping in the fall. We do a float trip or a dual sport motorcycling week at the end of Sept every year. It's surprising what you'll drink when that's all that is left in the cooler. Something about Vienna Sausages, Clif Bars and helmet-head breaks down my resistance to cap-top cocktails and non-descript swill. And it makes for a decent fly trap if you pour it in a bowl away from the campsite.

 

[Miraculix]

hey i like pbr

I have never had a single PBR in my life. And it's such a prominent beer, both in beer ranting threads as also basically everywhere that's showing America.

I will try ordering some of these. Does it go into the direction of Coors light? I like that one actually. As I do bud light. But I prefer Coors over bud.

Just to cheer you guys up, these beers are treated as something special in Germany, as we normally don't have easy access to them.

 

[Willy]

I have never had a single PBR in my life. And it's such a prominent beer, both in beer ranting threads as also basically everywhere that's showing America.

I will try ordering some of these. Does it go into the direction of Coors light? I like that one actually. As I do bud light. But I prefer Coors over bud.

Just to cheer you guys up, these beers are treated as something special in Germany, as we normally don't have easy access to them.

Yes ... More like Coors, than Bud light. And more of "it".
Pabst is to Coors as Coors is to Bud light kind of thing. I like Pabst. Heartier.

 

[Skunkape71]

I try and keep a cream ale or wit on tap for the corporate swill drinkers, but I don't go out of my way. ultimately, it's all coming out of my pocket, and I brew what I want. That said, I take absolutely no offense if they don't care for my beers, and choose to bring their own.

Different strokes...

 

[Miraculix]

Yes ... More like Coors, than Bud light. And more of "it".
Pabst is to Coors as Coors is to Bud light kind of thing. I like Pabst. Heartier.

Ok, that settles it, I'll order some!

... Plus some of the other light beers, just to be sure.

 

[fluketamer]

i thought i read somewhere that they changed there recipe 10 to 15 years ago and this is when i started liking it. but i think after reading a bit that it was all a marketing thing in the 2010's and thats proly what made me think its better than it proly is. lol. to me it has just a little more hop flavor than all the other commercial beers.

 

[Miraculix]

For educational purposes only, I have ordered the following beers:

Yuengling Lager Import

Bud Light - MHD-Rabatt

Miller Lite Import

Coors Light Import

Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer Import

Moosehead Light

Moosehead Pale Ale

Moosehead Lager

I am fully aware that the last three are Canadian, nevertheless, they sparked my interest as well.

 

[Willy]

For educational purposes only, I have ordered the following beers:

Yuengling Lager Import

Bud Light - MHD-Rabatt

Miller Lite Import

Coors Light Import

Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer Import

Moosehead Light

Moosehead Pale Ale

Moosehead Lager

I am fully aware that the last three are Canadian, nevertheless, they sparked my interest as well.

I see you are from Bremen - do they still make St. Pauli? We used to get it but have not seen it in decades. Liked it a lot. "Enjoy a nice cold girl" was a great tag line - spoke to me as a teenager. Ha.

 

[fluketamer]

For educational purposes only, I have ordered the following beers:

Yuengling Lager Import

Bud Light - MHD-Rabatt

Miller Lite Import

Coors Light Import

Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer Import

Moosehead Light

Moosehead Pale Ale

Moosehead Lager

I am fully aware that the last three are Canadian, nevertheless, they sparked my interest as well.

oy vey.

i used to drink a lot of yuengling. i used to think it was good. it def changed. now its hard to find anyway. their hersheys chocolate porter was actually very good. cause its 4.7 percent porter so its crushable

bud light - prolly the worst beer i have aever had. i think i have had one thats it. never again.

miler lite - actually drinkable somehow. not that i would drink it. miller is the champagne of beers after all.

coorslight almost as bad as bud light

PBR - the one and only . lol

moosehead (light pale or lager) all taste the same - a very skunky canadian beer. molsen is better in my opinion as is labatt blue.

but all of these are like 30 percent adjunct and you can def taste it.

I see you are from Bremen - do they still make St. Pauli? We used to get it but have not seen it in decades. Liked it a lot. "Enjoy a nice cold girl" was a great tag line - spoke to me as a teenager. Ha.

there was something else there that spoke to me as a teenager as well. it wasnt the slogan tho.

 

[Miraculix]

I see you are from Bremen - do they still make St. Pauli? We used to get it but have not seen it in decades. Liked it a lot. "Enjoy a nice cold girl" was a great tag line - spoke to me as a teenager. Ha.

It never was on the German market, always export only. I think they have revived it? But not sure.

It's funny, because St. Pauli is a part of Hamburg and Hamburg and Bremen are.... Well.... Let's say the people are not so chill with each other. The more they are into football (soccer, for the murricanos), the worse the relationship tends to be.

No wonder that this beer was never sold here.

 

[Miraculix]

I see you are from Bremen - do they still make St. Pauli? We used to get it but have not seen it in decades. Liked it a lot. "Enjoy a nice cold girl" was a great tag line - spoke to me as a teenager. Ha.

Just did some research. The St Pauli beer goes back to a brewery founded at the beginning of the 19 century in the Bremen inner city called St. Pauli, because it was built on the area where the St. Pauls Monasterie used to stand. They were obviously also breewing beer there. This new brewery was founded by two men, one named Beck. This beer was only shipepd to America and never sold in Germany. And yes, Beck and his partner founded a second brewery later, known today as Beck's. The St. Pauli brewery does not exist anymore, it is now partially a theater. But the St. Pauli beer is still being brewed by Beck's in Bremen.

If you want to google translate:

https://www.bremen-lotsen.de/bremen...fast-vergessene-st-pauli-brauerei-im-viertel/