"lite" beer

[BeavBrew]

Try EdWort's famous haus pale ale recipe. I have yet to see anyone turn their nose up at it, no matter how uneducated their palates.

Yeah, the Haus seems to be a winner, even with my BMC loving friends. I wouldn't even try to replicate an American Light Lager. It's way too hard to get right, and so much cheaper to buy at the store.

In all honesty, I've yet to find the friend that hasn't liked at least one thing I've made. Sometimes it just takes them awhile to open up their minds to something different than what their used too. I also fins that involvong them in the brewing process really peeks their interest.

 

[Aubie Stout]

Beirmuncher has a cream ale recipe that should work for what you want.

 

[BWRIGHT]

Getting them involved with the brewing process will definitely sway their opinions. I speak from experience.

 

[bgrubb7]

This recipe worked well for me.

I have tried a couple all-grain versions of this beer, but so far the extract version was the best batch by far.

 

[The Blow Leprechaun]

Wheat beers seem to go over pretty well, too.

 

[BierMuncher]

...I'd rather just brew it and get the experience...

You nay sayers should be ashamed. Someone wants to brew a light crisp summer beer and expand the acceptance of homebrew among the BMC crowd and you pshaw the notion?

Someone comes to our community seeking advice and rather than helping...you chastise? Could it be that you simply are not capable of brewing such a beer?



But seriously...there's nothing quite as satisfying as brewing a beer that people taste and ask in disbelief..."you really brewed this yourself???"

So in answer to your question, the easiest, lightest and most economical beer you can brew to satisfy the chics is a cream ale. Not too hoppy. A good quencher and crystal clear.

This recipe comes in around 3.6% so it's a great all day beer.



Cream of Three Crops

Batch Size: 11.50 gal
Boil Size: 14.26 gal
Estimated OG: 1.040 SG
Estimated Color: 2.9 SRM
Estimated IBU: 14.3 IBU
Brewhouse Efficiency: 75.0 %
Boil Time: 90 Minutes

Ingredients:
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12.00 lb Pale Malt (2 Row) US (2.0 SRM)
4.00 lb Corn, Flaked (1.3 SRM)
1.00 lb Minute Rice (1.0 SRM)

1.00 oz Williamette [5.20%] (60 min)
1.00 oz Crystal [3.50%] (60 min)

 

[Sir Humpsalot]

You nay sayers should be ashamed. Someone wants to brew a light crisp summer beer and expand the acceptance of homebrew among the BMC crowd and you pshaw the notion?

Someone comes to our community seeking advice and rather than helping...you chastise? Could it be that you simply are not capable of brewing such a beer?



But seriously...there's nothing quite as satisfying as brewing a beer that people taste and ask in disbelief..."you really brewed this yourself???"

So in answer to your question, the easiest, lightest and most economical beer you can brew to satisfy the chics is a cream ale. Not too hoppy. A good quencher and crystal clear.

This recipe comes in around 3.6% so it's a great all day beer.
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Cream of Three Crops

Batch Size: 11.50 gal
Boil Size: 14.26 gal
Estimated OG: 1.040 SG
Estimated Color: 2.9 SRM
Estimated IBU: 14.3 IBU
Brewhouse Efficiency: 75.0 %
Boil Time: 90 Minutes

Ingredients:
------------
12.00 lb Pale Malt (2 Row) US (2.0 SRM)
4.00 lb Corn, Flaked (1.3 SRM)
1.00 lb Minute Rice (1.0 SRM)

1.00 oz Williamette [5.20%] (60 min)
1.00 oz Crystal [3.50%] (60 min)

What yeast do you use, BM? And do you do a cereal mash to get the protein haze out of the rice, or does minute rice not have that problem? How do you mash?

 

[EricCSU]

You nay sayers should be ashamed. Someone wants to brew a light crisp summer beer and expand the acceptance of homebrew among the BMC crowd and you pshaw the notion?

Someone comes to our community seeking advice and rather than helping...you chastise? Could it be that you simply are not capable of brewing such a beer?



But seriously...there's nothing quite as satisfying as brewing a beer that people taste and ask in disbelief..."you really brewed this yourself???"

So in answer to your question, the easiest, lightest and most economical beer you can brew to satisfy the chics is a cream ale. Not too hoppy. A good quencher and crystal clear.
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I couldn't agree more. All of us at one time had a limited palate and had some experience that broadened our horizons. Why not take this opportunity to educate your friends and have fun doing it? Go to a microbrewery and try all different kinds of their beer and learn about it. If that is not feasible, assemble a flight of different, yet "approachable" beers and have a tasting. With each beer, have some fun and friendly educational material. As we all know, some of the resistance to "beer snob beers" is a lack of education and experience. We were all there at one time.

My three uncles (who are all about my age, don't ask) were die-hard bud light drinkers. They always criticized the variety of "dark" beers that I enjoyed. One day, we all went to New Belgium and O'dells brewery in Fort Collins. All of them began to slowly appreciate other beers. One of them drinks Trippel and Abby Ale and another loves 90 Schilling now! This is after years of drinking (and enjoying) Bud Light.

Being a snob about beer will only perpetuate the perceived inaccessibility of beer and prove to be divisive.

As beer lovers, we should strive to include all in the joy that we experience in beer.

Hope I haven't offended anyone.

Eric

 

[Sir Humpsalot]

I like the above posters thoughts. Some accessible beers to pick up for a flight:

Victory Prima Pils
Goose Island 312 Summer Wheat
Maibock/Oktoberfest
Hefeweizen


The way I convert my friends is to ask them these questions:

If you could go through time and visit any place in history, and meet any person in history, who would you want to meet? Where would you want to go?

Now, if you were there, at that time, with that person, and they prepared the greatest feast in your honor, and they had all sorts of amazing foods and you got to talk with this amazing person, but all they had to drink, the only safe beverage was (fill in the name of an inaccessible beer here), what would you think of this beverage under those circumstances?

What I find is that most people, when they hang up their preconceptions and start with the premise that they are out of their comfort zone, they will almost always concede that, well, yeah, the beer isn't that bad and they could certainly drink it without being a puss.

At that point, once they're about halfway done with the glass, drinking with an open mind, they'll get over whatever they "think" a beer should be and actually become pretty receptive to whatever it is that the style offers.

 

[Sigafoos]

But... but it's so much fun to be a snob Can't we just make it look like so much fun that others want to join in? Ivory towers are no fun if you put in a damn door.

 

[SourHopHead]

Yah i probably should, my friends are more into drinking quantity then quality. Also i should have been more specific and said a lite ale since i cant lager sorry for not stating that earlier. As for going and buying a pack of something, id rather just brew it and get the experience. Basically ive come to the understanding with my gal and guy friends if the beer isnt watery, golden, or see through they wont like it. I liked the hello kitty cozy idea though i might have to do that.

I have friends the same way. They humor me when I offer them home brew and just means more for me if they don't like it. Practice makes perfect and people here are great at helping.

 

[reaper79]

Hey guys thanks for the good adivice im glad to see there are people who enjoy beers that arent plastered on the side of a racecar. Im probably going to go with Biermunchers centennial blonde or the cream ale. Also biermuncher how do you get your beer so clear?? My first ag homebrew came out hazy and hard to see through.

 

[BierMuncher]

What yeast do you use, BM? And do you do a cereal mash to get the protein haze out of the rice, or does minute rice not have that problem? How do you mash?

...biermuncher how do you get your beer so clear?? My first ag homebrew came out hazy and hard to see through.

There is no need to do a cereal mash on Minute Rice. That's why I prefer it. It is already cooked. Just toss it into the mash tun with all the other grist.

This recipe, because it has a lighter barley bill, will clear up pretty nicely.

Several things help a lot:

• A good hard boil
• Whirlfloc tablets (or irish moss) the last 15 minutes of boil
• 1/2Tbs of unflavored gelatin dissolved in 1/2 cup of hot water (not boiling) added to the secondary or the keg after fermentation is complete.