breckenridge
Lurker
So, I've been brewing about 2 years now, and it's time to get serious (-ish). I want to narrow my scope, and really nail down a few sessionable styles to keep on tap until I feel like I've got them down cold to the finest detail, even if that means not changing a tap's style for...however many batches it takes - four, a dozen, 30? I'm thinking that I'll be keeping these styles for at least a year, most likely more than that, we'll just have to see. The hope is to have a variety of flavors and a variety of techniques to perfect, so SWMBO and I don't get bored with the selection and so I don't get bored on brew days.
I've got 4 taps, one of which is nitro. Sessionability is key. I want to turn these over relatively quickly so that I can apply lessons from the batch that's on draft to the batch I'm brewing next.
The breakdown is to be 2 British (one on nitro), one American, one German/Austrian/Czech.
My preferences are towards the dry and malty or balanced malt/hop. Not afraid of hops, but not a hop head. Not afraid of residual sugars, but not something I want to drink daily year-round. (Read: no AIPAs, no DIPAs, no sweet stouts, no doppelbocks)
Here's what I'm thinking:
Nitro - Dry Irish Stout {or Oatmeal Stout}
British - Ordinary Bitter {or Mild or Northern Brown or ESB}
German - Düsseldorf Altbier {or Pils or Dunkel or Vienna Lager or Helles or Hefeweizen or Kölsch -- so many possibilities here}
American - American Wheat Beer (Hoppy) {or Amber or APA}
What else should I be considering? What drinks well all year long?
(Fret not, there will be other beers around the house - high gravity cellaring beers, funky stuff, dubbels, quads, and saisons, but they'll be in bottles.)
I've got 4 taps, one of which is nitro. Sessionability is key. I want to turn these over relatively quickly so that I can apply lessons from the batch that's on draft to the batch I'm brewing next.
The breakdown is to be 2 British (one on nitro), one American, one German/Austrian/Czech.
My preferences are towards the dry and malty or balanced malt/hop. Not afraid of hops, but not a hop head. Not afraid of residual sugars, but not something I want to drink daily year-round. (Read: no AIPAs, no DIPAs, no sweet stouts, no doppelbocks)
Here's what I'm thinking:
Nitro - Dry Irish Stout {or Oatmeal Stout}
British - Ordinary Bitter {or Mild or Northern Brown or ESB}
German - Düsseldorf Altbier {or Pils or Dunkel or Vienna Lager or Helles or Hefeweizen or Kölsch -- so many possibilities here}
American - American Wheat Beer (Hoppy) {or Amber or APA}
What else should I be considering? What drinks well all year long?
(Fret not, there will be other beers around the house - high gravity cellaring beers, funky stuff, dubbels, quads, and saisons, but they'll be in bottles.)