What is your favorite House Ale?

[jtrux]

Yea, but this is one of those threads that's kind of nice to have pop back up once in a while...

They need to be crushed.

Thank you

 

[jtrux]

To crush can you just put in a ziplock and hit with meat tenderizer?

 

[Firebat138]

gotta have the fresh squeezed IPA on tap

 

[Eternalodyssey]

My Smoked Ale, for the win! Its a moderately complex brew but its soooooo worth it!

 

[beeber]

Irish Red Ale is my session beer.

 

[PintoBean]

I just brewed an Irish Red that myself, the wife, and all my friends LOVE. It might have to become a house ale for me. Very sessionable too.

 

[vtron]

I try to have NB's Dead Ringer IPA (Bell's Two Hearted clone) on tap as often as possible. The problem is that I drink it too quickly.

 

[keesh]

To crush can you just put in a ziplock and hit with meat tenderizer?

So primal...

I wouldn't recommend it but you gotta do what you gotta do. Since you're just doing a steep you aren't worried about efficiency so the crush size isn't too much of an issue, as long as you separate the husk from the goodness inside you'll probably be okay. If I was going to use a meat tenderizer, I'd put the grain underneath a round cake pan on a sheet pan and hit the cake pan with the tenderizer to help distribute the force so you don't end up with some over crushed/flattened grain and some untouched grain.

I haven't really gotten a house beer yet, especially since I don't have a kegging system yet, but the Kolsch I have in primary might end up as the house beer.

 

[D_Ranged_Eskimo]

Same issue as Keesh, have a freezer in waiting and 6 kegs now but no keezer as of yet.

Either the Gumballhead Inspired WPA or a Blanche De Chambly clone attempt, that at bottling, tasted more like a Hoegardden, might have to become the house ales once the kegging system is up and running.

 

[Ramitt]

Yea, but this is one of those threads that's kind of nice to have pop back up once in a while...

Not saying anything wrong with it, just amusing how old it it.

 

[jtrux]

So primal...

I wouldn't recommend it but you gotta do what you gotta do. Since you're just doing a steep you aren't worried about efficiency so the crush size isn't too much of an issue, as long as you separate the husk from the goodness inside you'll probably be okay. If I was going to use a meat tenderizer, I'd put the grain underneath a round cake pan on a sheet pan and hit the cake pan with the tenderizer to help distribute the force so you don't end up with some over crushed/flattened grain and some untouched grain.

I haven't really gotten a house beer yet, especially since I don't have a kegging system yet, but the Kolsch I have in primary might end up as the house beer.

Would a mini food processor/chopper be a better option? I have one that has a chop and a grind setting?

Thanks again for all the help

 

[passedpawn]

I'm making my Rye IPA a staple in my house. It's so freaking good, it makes my toes curl.

 

[DannPM]

My Belgian Red Ale!

 

[stbnj]

My citra/ahtanum pale ale

 

[frankstoneline]

I keep an amber around that I find really appealing. It's got a nice hop presence with a touch of malt peeking through, almost too drinkable really, and most people seem to like it.

 

[keesh]

Would a mini food processor/chopper be a better option? I have one that has a chop and a grind setting?

Thanks again for all the help

Maybe.. try posting in the All Grain section. Honestly I'd say probably not. Where are you getting these grains that aren't able or willing to mill them for you? That is truly odd.

 

[triangulum33]

Haus PA is my favorite house beer. Great base to try different hops and yeasts.

 

[erikhild59]

Tossup between my RyePA and Moose Drool clone.