Pick 6 - Beer for Thought

[Grinder12000]

I'm just curious - if you owned a BrewPub and could have six styles of Ale - what six styles would you choose.

 

[niquejim]

If I appealed to Craft brew lovers
A RyePA
A Trippel
An APA
A Cask Bitter
A good American Cream Ale
A Dusseldorf Alt

 

[Torchiest]

Let's see:

English Porter
Imperial IPA
Oatmeal Stout
Belgian Dubbel
Raspberry Wit
Rotating Seasonal

 

[HVBrewtality]

Irish Red
Hefeweizen
Oatmeal Stout
IPA
Belgian Golden Strong
Rotating Seasonal (IIPA, Kolsch, Pumpkin Ale, Cherry Stout)

 

[mmb]

Six Ales

Dry Stout
Irish Red Ale
English Brown
IPA
American Wheat
Light Hybrid Ale like Cream Ale / Blond Ale

 

[Parker36]

1) Stout
2) IPA
3) Seasonal Wheat offering
4) Rotating Belgian (Dubbel/Trippel/Strong Golden, etc)
5) Pilsner
6) Rotating Seasonal (Barleywine/Oktoberfest/etc)

Super cop out with three beers in rotation, I know, but only one really changes drastically

 

[Torchiest]

Just out of curiosity, what would constitute a seasonal wheat? Maybe a Krystal Weizen in the summer, and a Weizenbock in the fall or winter? Spiced Wit for Christmas?

 

[Edcculus]

Bavarian Hevewiezen
American Pale Ale
Dry Stout
Kick you in the face IPA
English Brown
Scottish

 

[A4J]

1. red ale
2. brown ale
3. white ale
4. blonde ale
5. IPA
6. Oatmeal Stout

 

[Danny013]

Dry stout
IIPA (served with a hop cone in the glass)
English bitter on cask
Hefeweizen (no, we don't serve it with lemon/orange slices)
English Porter
Pale Ale - light, easily quaffable but still full-flavored for the BMC drinkers.

 

[Coastarine]

1. Witbier
2. IPA
3. American Brown Ale
4. Nitro stout
5. wee heavy
6. Dortmunder Export

 

[eschatz]

IIPA
American Wheat
American Brown
Rotating Stout (Imperial, dry, seasonal)
Rotating Belgium (Gold Strong, Tripel, Saison)
Barley Wine

 

[BrianTheBrewer]

American Pale Ale
Oatmeal Stout
IPA
American Wheat Ale
Strong Golden Ale
English Brown

 

[cyberbackpacker]

Irish Red
Oatmeal Stout
Dunkelweizen
Alt (and seasonal "heavy" alt)
American Amber
Belgian Dubbel

 

[ajwillys]

Pale Ale (good session beer with a big C hop)
Rye IPA (high gravity, high AA, high everything)
Brown Ale (an easy drinking brown)
Stout (something over the top roasty)
Pilsner (for the lager lover's)
Rotating (Not calling it seasonal, cuz it should change as often as possible. Keep the regulars with something new.)

 

[Chriso]

1. House Pale Ale. Not too hoppy, but not bland. Probably Amarillo hops.
2. House Porter - I'm envisioning a cross between a porter and a Hobgoblin clone
3. Rye Stout, a big mofo ... maybe alternate with A Brown ale or a Scottish 80/- or 90/-.
4. A crisp wheat beer, but NOT estery. Very American wheat beer.
5. Rotating House Belgian - Apricot Saison / Belgian Pale / Dubbel
6. Rotating seasonal / brewers' choice.

 

[Grinder12000]

This is awesome - keep it coming - remember - not a wish list but what will sell.

 

[flyangler18]

This is awesome - keep it coming - remember - not a wish list but what will sell.

How 'bout a little quid pro quo?

Hmm. Gotta think about this one.

Roggenbier
APA
Dry Stout
Brown Ale
Mild
Rotating Belgian (Saison, Belgian Strong Golden, etc)

 

[Grinder12000]

How 'bout a little quid pro quo?

That's the problem - I have not tried many many styles = however from my limited knowledge and Chriso has some good ideas - I can see I should up this to eight!! Some of what I have seen I have never had!!

English Brown Ale / American amber
Mild
Stout or Porter
A crisp wheat beer, but NOT estery. Very American wheat beer.
IPA
House Pale Ale. Not too hoppy, but not bland (thanks chriso)

I can see there would HAVE to be some rotation here as I'm leaving out some good ones.

 

[Chriso]

Sadly, from our local brewpub's experience at least, Mild's don't sell at all. It could be the best Mild in the world, served from a hand pump, and people would still skip it to have the Vanilla Porter or the Honey Gold instead. It got to the point where, for a "Beers of the UK" competition, they had to specifically ban homebrewers from doing a Mild, because they had already had two Milds win the competition, and neither sold well at all.

I think the REAL gem is a fantastic APA, not too hoppy, that the masses can get behind - but the geeks can still appreciate. That's why I picked Amarillo for mine - everyone I've served my Amarillo SMaSH to, can't believe it's such a simple beer, because it tastes so complex, but is still COMPLETELY quaffable. (Believe me. We tested that part rigorously. )

As for variety... well... Every few weeks, I have to give in to my temptation, and go to the "good" liquor store. I get a few 6-packs of various stuff that I've Never Drank Before -- or better yet, I blow $70 on nothin' but single bottles of Belgians. (That was the last three trips. ) Up till last week, I never knew I liked Chimay Red!!!!!

 

[Grinder12000]

Good point on the Mild - not known enough. I want to keep the Hop heads happy but for MY little town full of Joe Six packs and hockey moms I would have to have a beverage that is not aggressive.

Found Amarillo SMaSH - DAMN - too many brews and not enough time - I already have 2 in teh carboys - one brew tomorrow and 2 more ready - now an Amarillo SMaSH (must I worry about CAPS? lol)


( I do have a driving reason for this post but I don't want to admit it).

 

[fat x nub]

1.Pale Ale
2.IPA
3.Stout
4.Brown Ale
5.Blonde Ale
6.Seasonal

 

[944play]

1. Lawnmower, for your Joes and moms
2. American Pale
3. Hefeweizen
4. Nitro Stout
5. IPA, perhaps Rye IPA?
6. Rotating high-gravity (BW, Tripel, DIPA, Wee, Golden Strong...)

You're welcome!

 

[phissionkorps]

Scottish 60
English Brown
Wit
IPA
American pale ale
Sweet stout or porter

 

[thataintchicken]

1. Dunkelweizen
2. Hefeweizen
3. Vanilla Porter / rotated with Milk Stout
4. Belgian Tripple
5. Schwarzbier
6. Altbier


Simple Sausages, freshly baked breads and hearty soups on the menu --
Maybe a barmaid named Greta.

Bottles of mead and cider available when available

 

[Special Hops]

Hefeweizen, pale ale, IPA, Stout, Porter, blonde ale

 

[jmulligan]

Simple Sausages, freshly baked breads and hearty soups on the menu --
Maybe a barmaid named Greta.

Bottles of mead and cider available when available

It's too close to lunch for me to be reading this kind of thing... MMMM! The mead and cider sounds good too!

1. Rotating porter/stout (milk/coffee/chocolate/dry)
2. Rotating IPAs (single hop/multi-hop/intensely dry-hopped)
3. Kolsch
4. Rotating wheats (American/German/Fruited)
5. Rotating Belgians
6. Pale ale

 

[ba70665]

lets see here...

1. IPA
2. Hefeweizen
3. Belgian Trippel
4. American Amber Ale
5. Oatmeal Stout
6. Seasonal (Oktoberfest, Spiced Winter Ale, Springtime Bock, Saison)

BAM! If you don't like good beer, go somewhere else.

 

[Saccharomyces]

Belgian Tripel
Belgian Pale Ale
West Coast IPA
Munich Helles-style Blonde Ale
Two seasonal rotating taps

#7 would be EdWort's Apfelwein.

 

[Saccharomyces]

IIPA
American Wheat
American Brown
Rotating Stout (Imperial, dry, seasonal)
Rotating Belgium (Gold Strong, Tripel, Saison)
Barley Wine

Hmm, I'm hanging out at your pub, since everything is bigger.