What to Brew Next?

[SwAMi75]

I'm feeling uninspired. My "cranberry zinger" got infected (first time that's happened, I blame the keg), my coffee-milk stout has too much coffee and most has been dumped. My IIPA is OK, but is a little sweet for some reason. My current batch of Standard IPA came out pretty nice. I was planning to do a smoked porter next, but ORRELSE just did one, and I think I'll wait to see how his is before I try it.

Browns bore me, and I've got plenty of IPA on hand. Whatever I do now will probably be ready before winter is over, so I'd like something fairly big. I'm thinking of doing something gonzo like Pliny the Elder. This beer will probably go on tap.

Any ideas?

P.S. I'm not a fan of spiced beers.

 

[homebrewer_99]

How about a bock - Helles or Dunkel?

I made a batch of Helles Bock, named "10# Bock Beutel" (it seems that a few people were making 9# Hammers, etc., so I just followeed suite) that was a tad sweet. I just boiled 1/2 gal of water and 1 oz of Cascade hops (5% AA) for 1 hour. I added 3 cups of fluid to the batch in the secondary and now it's all OK.

The house smelled like I had a pot party.

Tastes damn great now! It's ready to bottle. I'll get to it this weekend for sure. I have 3 batches in secondaries now. One is a melomel, peach mead.

BTW, "Bock Beutel" means "Goat Scrotum". It comes from the shape of a Frankonian (northern Bavaria) wine bottle called a "beutel". It looks a lot like a Matuse bottle.

 

[Dude]

Soup up that Magic Bolo #9 recipe from Charlie's new book?
I guess that is technically still an IPA though.....

What about a dry stout?

 

[SwAMi75]

OK, I think I found it. I'm going to do a rye APA, a la Hophead's* "My Rye." I'll have to tweak for the hops I have on hand....I'll get on it in a few days and post it in the proper forum.

*A guy on a different board--he's also the guy who did the recipe that ORRELSE based his smoked porter on. He also happens to be a fellow Okie.

 

[Dude]

OK, I think I found it. I'm going to do a rye APA, a la Hophead's* "My Rye." I'll have to tweak for the hops I have on hand....I'll get on it in a few days and post it in the proper forum.

So when is this getting brewed?

 

[Baron von BeeGee]

Browns bore me, and I've got plenty of IPA on hand. Whatever I do now will probably be ready before winter is over, so I'd like something fairly big.

All this sentence taken in sum made me think of the Dogfish Head India Nut Brown clone in BYO a while back. It's big, hoppy, and IMO not boring (certainly not a typical brown). But the rye sounds pretty interesting, too. One of these days I'm going to have to try something with rye.

 

[DeRoux's Broux]

i did an Rye PA one time,and it was very good (the lasy extract/grain recipe i brewed). rye gives those beers a nice, crisp edge. goes well with hoppy beers.