You're opening your own brew pub.......

[jgardner6]

Pale Ale, Light Ale, Stout, IPA, Other American Ale rotated, and monthly special.

 

[snazzy]

ESB
IPA
Brown
Coffee stout
Maybe a cider or a mead
seasonal tap rotating from barly wine, saison, oktoberfest, maybe some sort of holiday ale

 

[johnmcc]

Pale Ale
IPA
Stout
Seasonal
Cream Ale
Blonde Ale (need something for the ladies)

 

[Strave19]

Wow, nice thread!

Standard Beer Lineup:
1) Cream Ale -5% range - For the less adventurous
2) IPA -7% range - Popular, often the first beer I try if going to a new brewery, if their IPA sucks it hurts my initial impression of the brewery. I'm not proud of it, but thats the way it is!
3) Brown Ale -6% range - tough to go wrong
4) Porter - 6% range - for the dark beer lovers
5) Belgian Pale -6% range - I like Belgians
6) Belgian Dubbel -high 7% range - I like Belgians

Seasonal/Rotational taps:
Belgian Specialty Beers (Wit, Tripel, Saison, Quad, Sour, Etc...)
Non-Belgian Special Tap (Mexican Porter, Stout, IIPA, Dark IPA, etc...)

Maybe 4 rotating taps! IMO, variety can keep people coming back just as much as the standards. I get bored with one of my local breweries because they dont (not yet anyway) release seasonals... they make the best beer in town but I would still like some variety when I go there.

That was fun to think about

 

[dfc]

and you get to have 6 flagship beers. What 6 styles would you choose to brew all the time for your brewery?

Just curious what folks would go with.

Imperial Stout
Some type of Porter (probably a vanilla porter)
IPA
Hefeweisen
Lager
Pale Ale

 

[Grasslands]

Thread resurrection!

1. High Gravity Pale Ale
2. IPA
3. IIPA
4. Belgian Tripel/Belgian Strong rotation
5. Oatmeal Stout/Red Rye rotation
6. Cider

 

[Acoma]

If it were me I'd go with the following:
RIS (I'd switch it up and do an oaked and oatmeal once in a while to keep the ish hot)
Porter (I'd also oak it and bourbon it once or twice a year)
Wheat APA (b/c I love a lil sumpin sumpin)
BIPA
Hef (switch it up with blood oranges, diff fruit once in a while)
Pils

 

[edgeofblade]

Brown, amber, blonde, porter, hefewizen... And a slightly dry licorice focused root beer for the kiddies. I would also pick out 4 to 6 seasonal brews. My main focus on just about every beer would be minimizing aging time, though skillful temperature manipulation and wise ingredient selection.

 

[scottyg354]

Restarting an Old One.

Brown Ale, IPA, Wheat (Hefe for spring and summer, and a Dunkel for Fall and Winter), Stout, Pilsner and a Seasonal

I would also keep two or three domestics (Coors, Bud and Yuengling Lager probably)

 

[hibbleton]

If I had it my way, I'd have 1 or 2 flagship session beers always on tap with the rest being seasonal/whatever I feel like brewing. That list today would look like:

-Kentucky Common
-Session-strength IPA
-Pumpkin Ale
-Milk Stout
-Dunkelweizen
-Berlinerweisse

If we're being realistic (and boring), my list would be:

-Cream Ale
-American Wheat
-Amber Ale
-American IPA
-Oatmeal Stout
-Monthly Seasonal

 

[Whippy]

All ales for my pub!

IPA
Witbier
Irish Red Ale
American Brown Ale
Foreign Extra Stout
Strong Scotch Ale

 

[Revvy]

This is a fun game, even if it is a zombie one....This is a good question, because to be prudent in business, I would have to have at least one, if not more beers that I personally wouldn't like.

I'm not a wheat beer drinker, but they're popular, though I like Belgian Wits....There needs to be a beer that the BMC drinkers would like as well....

1) Belgian Wit
2) Cream Ale
3) Pils or Kolsch
4) IPA
5) Red
6) Stout


Obviously I'd like to have more than 6 taps, maybe 2 more to rotate, or even better, 12 taps...or even more better over 60 like my favorite place, Dragonmead Microbrewery.

 

[Soma]

Porter, Pilsner, IPA, Bavarian hefe, ESB, Dubbel

 

[LVBen]

and you get to have 6 flagship beers. What 6 styles would you choose to brew all the time for your brewery?

Just curious what folks would go with.

APA, IPA, Stout, Hefeweizen, Cream Ale, Irish Red

 

[BrewThruYou]

I would do 6 IPAs.

 

[LVBen]

Interesting... I think everyone but 1 person put IPA down.

 

[Revvy]

I would do 6 IPAs.

And be out of business in a few months.

 

[BrewThruYou]

And be out of business in a few months.

Yeah, my business plan has a few holes in it.

 

[Revvy]

Yeah, my business plan has a few holes in it.

Yeah, I'd enjoy it, but I don't think just me could keep you afloat.

 

[rhamilton]

1) IPA
2) Stout/Porter (something dark)
3) Hefeweizen (something wheat-based)
4) BMC competitor (something very light in color and taste but still good and cheap)
5) Pale Ale
6) Seasonal Rotator (See Samuel Adam's rotation)

Need more taps

 

[Hellfish76]

1. Pale
2. IPA
3. Porter
4. Ginger Beer
5. Seasonal
6. Seasonal (why limit yourself to just 1 seasonal?)

 

[two_hearted]

APA
Imperial Red
Imperial Stout
Porter
IPA
CDA

There would obviously be seasonals and limited releases, but this is the flagship line up.

 

[Misfit]

ipa, iipa, iiipa, apa, black ipa, black iipa


can you tell something about me?

 

[Revvy]

ipa, iipa, iiipa, apa, black ipa, black iipa


can you tell something about me?

Yeah, like BrewThruYou, you won't be in business all that long.

 

[DGibb]

6 Standards:
American Pale or Brown
Pilsner
Honey Wheat
Sweet Stout
IPA
Cider

Rotating Seasonal:
Kolsch
Winter Warmer
Russian Imperial Stout
Holiday Spice
Black IPA/Cascadian Dark (whatever you want to call it)
Marzen/Oktoberfest
Dunkelweiss

 

[Whippy]

I dislike threads like this one that make me thirsty

 

[user 70445]

Alternate Brewpub- Olde Englishe style- everything in cask and hand pulled

dark mild
pale mild
original bitter
extra special bitter
India pale ale
brown porter

Wow, that sounds incredible!

This. 1000xs this.

 

[nocsimian]

I don't think you need a BMC competitor to be successful. Being originally from PA, I've converted many a BMC drinker to Yuengling once they started distributing in GA. As for having an IPA, I think there are too many hop heads out there to not at least try to get them in the house.

So here's mine:

1.) Yuengling Clone
2.) Oatmeal Stout
3.) Irish Red
4.) IPA (possibly a Rye IPA)
5.) hefe
6.) American Brown

 

[cadarnell]

a pils .. a pale ... an IPA ... a wheat (probably fruit) and an amber

 

[MetuchenBrewerNJ]

I've thought about this a lot lately..

American Pale Ale
IPA
Irish Stout
Premium Lager/American Lager
Golden Ale
Irish Red

Of course, if I owned a brew pub, I'd have a seasonal or two always going on, plus an "experimental" tap.