Style you will never brew?

[TrickyDick]

HA! Another "I'll never" reneger!!!! Making an american light lager as we speak........DAMMIT! I have developed a slight penchant for Miller Lite with a fresh slice of lime in it. Long story, but strange coincidences and making the best of bad situations has made me put fresh slices of lime in um......plain tasting beer. FWIW, if nothing else, NEVER buy corona again. Miller with a lime is better, cheaper.

Hah!

My first lager attempt was a miller lite type clone. Pissed me off because it took up my only temp controlled ferm space for so long. Came out good, but so much easier to just buy the **** than to brew it....

TD

 

[b-boy]

Don't see myself ever doing a lager. I'm all about ales now.

 

[roastquake]

I do not like the base flavor. Maybe if it was made into an IPA the aggressive hops would cover it up. Might be worth a try.

Good news for me, that's exactly what I was thinking about doing with it

 

[MindenMan]

I can't see myself ever brewing a lager. I would rather go thirsty than drink a Bud. I had been a pretty big fan of Sam Adams for years, but not any more. Anything that even resembles a lager tastes like shi*. Oh, yea I meant Bud. I hope my taste for Kolsch beers and Bocks aren't ruined.

 

[jonmohno]

I still will never ever never ever make and Ovaltine beer. Did I say,NEVER ?

 

[FatDragon]

I'll probably renege on this, but spending more time and energy to make a lager doesn't make sense to me. Why would I go further to make something I like less?

The answer is probably, "because someone else wants to drink it," but I certainly don't see a lager in my foreseeable future.

A more realistic answer is gluten-free. I've never had a gluten-free beer and thus have nothing against the category, but neither do I have any motivation to make a gluten-free beer, and it's much further off the beaten path than a lager.

 

[cheezydemon3]

I can't see myself ever brewing a lager. I would rather go thirsty than drink a Bud. I had been a pretty big fan of Sam Adams for years, but not any more. Anything that even resembles a lager tastes like shi*. Oh, yea I meant Bud. I hope my taste for Kolsch beers and Bocks aren't ruined.

Don't let Revvy hear ya!

I said the same thing, but I have made 2.

Revvy swears by his Vienna Lager. I need to try it.

FWIW I still really dig SA.

 

[BrewinHooligan]

Don't let Revvy hear ya!

I said the same thing, but I have made 2.

Revvy swears by his Vienna Lager. I need to try it.

FWIW I still really dig SA.

I used to always swear I wouldn't make a lager and have 10gal of dunkel in primary right now...

 

[unionrdr]

I'm gunna brew up some more of my hybrid lagers. Lager like qualities in a beer I can make at temps I can manage with WL029.
The ones I think I'll never brew are Belgian sours. I'd have to dedicate seperate equipment to those. And they tighten my guts when I drink them. So buying some now & then is better for me. Like chimay blue label.
Speakin of revvy,where is he? Did he fall off the edge of the earth or something??

 

[beersk]

I can't see myself ever brewing a lager. I would rather go thirsty than drink a Bud. I had been a pretty big fan of Sam Adams for years, but not any more. Anything that even resembles a lager tastes like shi*. Oh, yea I meant Bud. I hope my taste for Kolsch beers and Bocks aren't ruined.

This is just insane! Lagers don't have to be sh!t American lagers! German lagers are hard to beat, oh man...
And besides, brewing lager is a step up from brewing ale. So much more skill involved in brewing a great lager.

I'd say I'll probably never brew a sour. Absolutely zero interest in sour beers aside from something like Framois Lambic. But I don't really consider that a sour.

 

[rigatron]

I think a homebrewed lager sounds delicious, and cant wait to try to make one.

Im not a huge fan of hefenweizens, so I probably wouldnt make one. Not really a fan of barley wines either.

 

[Powerturn11]

Scotch Ale

I really like scotch ale, well I thought I really did I made a 5 gallon batch and its still around. It was good and hit the style perfectly, but the thought of drinking another one makes me want to puke. Good thing Christmas is coming, can you say gifts. I'll never make another one. I'm a hop head at heart.

 

[cheezydemon3]

This is just insane! Lagers don't have to be sh!t American lagers! German lagers are hard to beat, oh man...
And besides, brewing lager is a step up from brewing ale. So much more skill involved in brewing a great lager.

EASY!!! I remember thinking the same thing as a noob. And just because it is harder doesn't make it better.

It has it's place, but I am a once every 2 years lager kinda brewer.....still a far cry from "NEVER" though

 

[ArkotRamathorn]

It's not for lack of trying, it's just not my thing. For some reason when I taste fruit in a beer, it just tastes fake to me. Like someone dropped a life saver of that flavor in and let it dissolve.

I'm sure that part of it has to do with my odd palette. The same reason I don't eat pickles on hamburgers or green peppers on pizza. Even one pickle on a hamburger, I might as well throw the beef out and just eat a pickle between two slices of bread. Green pepper does the same thing on pizza to me. And it seems that fruit does it in beer. I assume that's why it tastes fake to me, because it's so overwhelming.

I never thought I'd want to do any fruit beers either, at most a New Glarus Cherry Stout clone or a Raspberry Wheat of some kind. But 5th all-grain recipe (although inadvisable) I did a mulberry wheat ale with a dash of gooseberries, and lemon peel. Did a LOT of things wrong, but its still a tasty beer, and is a very mouthy thick beer. I used to always think fruit beers were, for lack of a better term fruity and thought only wussies drink fruit beers. If it's balanced I've never had an issue with the "life saver" effect.

I have on the other hand tried lots of commercial beers that had the "life saver" effect and can see how it could quickly turn someone off from the idea of trying to make a fruit beer of their own.

 

[chawagi]

I'd also have to say I'd never brew a lager. I prefer the tastes that are imparted by the ale yeasts well above the clarity and crispness achieved by lagering. The visual quality is much better with lagering, but it just seems to take too much from the taste while ale strains seem to enhance and add to the taste.

Just doesn't seem worth it to invest in the extra equipment when American, doppelbock, and marzen recipes taste even better when fermented with good ol' US-05 or WLP001.

 

[Pugnax88]

I don't see myself brewing a saison. I've only had a couple examples, and I have to say I'm not a fan.

 

[Bierliebhaber]

Belgian wit

I don't care for Belgians in general...the beers, not the people...then, again. jk
I've never had the urge to suck on my dirty gym socks or chew on a sweaty bandaid...so yeah, I stay clear.

 

[texcan2000]

Quite a few for me. Sours, smoked, spiced holiday ales etc. Not because I dislike them but because I don't want 5 plus gallons of them.

 

[TrickyDick]

I've recently had a personal epiphany in beer preferences. I visited SF a few years ago with my wife, and hit the Russian River Brew pub. tried Pliny for first time. tried a sour beer on draft. Didn't love it, but was enjoyed, dont recall which it was. Also had consecration ale, which might have been the one. not sure. Bought some bottles of a variety of their stuff and shipped home. Recall it was temptation, consecration, and pliny and blind pig, and damnation - 5 bottles, only 2 sours..

Anyway, my next visit to CA, this time SD, I found more sour beers to try: Lost Abbey, and more Russian River and also some by Almanac.

Sour beers are now a passion, sort of like when I first got into tasting HOPS in beer. Then began my passion of IPA, IIPA (Which didn't exist back then), and other extreme hopped beers.

Gotta say that everybody loves their favored style of beer for a reason, and as I grow older my palate is also becoming more open to new flavors. Loving the sour beers right now.

They are very different, but also very satisfying and enjoyable.

TD

 

[jonmohno]

This just goes back to when I first tried Porters, I only tried one or two then judged,then was a hater. Judgin and hatin on the porters, I tell ya. Gotta try more of the style til ya be-all hatein. Now I be a loving and a livin with the porters. Lovin' and a Liven'.

 

[ktblunden]

At the moment I can't see myself doing most lagers (just not a fan) or any sours. You never know, though. I'm hesitant to say "never" just because I might get bored at some point or I might try a commercial example that I love so much I want to try to re-create it.

Just wanted to quote myself here and say that I just bottled a pils and a dunkel. I haven't yet brewed any sours, but I do have plans to do so. So like I said, never say "never."

 

[VladOfTrub]

I won't brew beers that have tutti frutti French and Belgian names, nor, beer named after cheese, flowers, English kings, British lords, Irish saints, Greeks, Monks, kangaroos or birds.

 

[LovesIPA]

Stuff I'll never brew:

- A light american style lager
- Saison

But I like just about everything else. I like wheat beers, IPAs, pale ales, amber ales, stouts, porters, red ales, etc.

Speakin of revvy,where is he? Did he fall off the edge of the earth or something??

I was wondering that myself the other day.

 

[mikeysab]

This is wierd. My response was sours but now I love sours.

 

[YNOT2K]

I brew beer styles that I like.

That being said, it's highly unlikely I will ever brew a Rauchbier. I can't stand the smoke.

 

[user 70770]

Don't see myself ever doing a lager. I'm all about ales now.

I've only brewed 3 or 4 lagers in like 8 years of homebrewing. The first one was crap because I didn't know what I was doing. But the last 2 I made were both some of the best beers I've ever made. I love lagers because I feel like the malt expression isn't muddied by too many yeast esters and you get a clear grain character. I've since lost my temp controller and freezer chamber about 2 years ago after the divorce. Had to move in a small apartment which forced me to scale back. But at the time I was thinking about converting all my American ale recipes to use lager yeast and brew them cold. That's how much I felt about the cold fermentation and lagering process improving my beers.

Of course I'd still want to brew yeast forward styles like Belgian ales. But I would love to try to convert to lager for my day-to-day quaffers like pale ales, IPAs, porters and stouts.

 

[rorypayne]

I can't say there's any style I'll never brew. While there are styles that I don't prefer I imagine I'll end up trying to brew them all.

Totally agree as much as there might be styles I am not a fan of at this time I will surely brew them out of boredom. At about 150 batches I'm ready for n e thing.

 

[Nightshade]

At work I have to brew a couple styles I would never brew at home Hefe and Blondes are two styles I have zero appreciation for and I doubt I will ever have the urge to brew a Kolsch.

I may end up with a Hefe though, one of the local breweries kicked out a Tangerine Hefe that was pretty impressive so I may give it a shot after all.