I cant seem to brew the same thing twice; every time I try I always change the recipe to something I havent done before. I do seem to have some kind of IPA around, and every year I do a different take on my flagship Chocolate Coffee Stout.
Well, to be perfectly honest, the most consistently available beer on hand here is PBR. This is Milwaukee, my FIL loves it, and we are all old enough to have been drinking this stuff from way before it was hipster chic or whatever. So PBR it is. Drinking one right now, in fact.
brewed an ahs texas blonde a few months ago with kolsch yeast, dryhopped with an ounce of cascade, slapped an orange & white label on it & called it 'texas fight'.
two bottles left, gotta get back on it. good stuff.
Sam's Cream Ale. It's just the best easy drinker we make. I am so picky with my APAs and IPA's I haven't gotten one to a point I would have it on tap all the time. When I do though, it'll be those two side by side.
I like to try and always have some black butte clone on tap.
I am going to try and improve on it a bit though, without just coming up with Deschutes obsidian stout.
My wife drinks Miller Lite, so that's always available. Usually, I'll have a few of my beers in the fridge and a few commercial beers. There's a bunch of PBR in there right now.
For me it's always an APA with the same grain bill (I like to use honey malt in all my APA's) and I'll switch up the hop type and/or additions every time until I find the perfect combination. Currently going with a Falconer's Flight single hop APA.
Biermuncher's "Cream of Three Crops" Cream ale (4.5% abv) or my Pale Ale (Pale Malt, C-60, Nugget and Cascade hops with Notty or US-05 yeast) clean, crisp and perfect for a summer day or a winter night.
Saison of some sort, although with only two bottles of the last batch left and the next couple still bottle conditioning, I might be saisonless for a a couple weeks. Well, homebrew saisonless...
My house IPA (or reasonable facsimile) is always on tap. Other taps rotate, but I always have an APA or amber, an IPA, and a "other". Right now, the "other" is a stout.
Back in college, I was able to get copious amounts of free La Crosse Lager, which is the REAL Heileman's Old Style. I had two friends who worked at the City Brewery, which used to be the G. Heileman Brewery, and their boss would instruct them to take the expired beer. It was still good - it wasn't spoiled, or anything - and it was free. Since I moved back to Madison, it has been an unpredictable journey. I expect my homebrewing to reduce the variety substantially.
I am a very seasonal beer drinker. I tend to drink stouts, porters and winter ales/lagers in the winter and wheats, pale ales, and the likes in the summer. Spring and fall I tend to drink whatever moves me. So I don't really have a house beer.
I have had the same experience... A lot of my BMC-loving friends who "don't like that dark beer", are all over the 80/ when it appears, for some reason.
I have a few "house" beers, and that 80 is one of 'em. Two others would be a nut brown I found in Beer Captured, and a "Copper Ale" recipe from an old issue of BYO.. both of these are also malty, dark, and popular with people who don't like dark, heavy beers.
There are a lot of other styles I'll make, but medium to strong malty brown ales seem to be my thing lately.