The weather is starting to warm up and its time to start brewing lighter beers. What is everyones spring brew going to be this year?

2015-05-01T10:21:43-04:00

Will it be part of the AHA Big Brew Day? Provide any good recipes or special ingredients that you think really make a spring beer special, if you are willing to share.

Response by LTC Private RallyPoint Member made May 1 at 2015 10:27 AM

2015-05-01T10:27:13-04:00

I'm PCSing in a few weeks so I'm not going to do a special spring brew, I'm just going to use up as many ingredients as I can. I have everything for an Irish Red Ale so I'll be doing that, probably not during Big Brew Day but rather next weekend when my wife doesn't have everything scheduled out for me. That will leave me with about 1 oz of left over hop pellets, mixed types, and 1 lbs of crushed grain that will be perfect for the specialty grains for a brown ale or brown porter once I get set up at Leavenworth.

I'm big on porters for spring personally. Maybe a pale ale or hefeweisen/wheat beer. I want something a little more hoppy and thinner in body than a stout but not so thin and hoppy as an IPA or as extreme as some fruit beers get. Everyone has there own personal feelings on this one but I wouldn't take it all the way to a "lawnmower" beer this early.

Response by SFC Private RallyPoint Member made May 4 at 2015 11:11 PM

2015-05-04T23:11:27-04:00

I got my hands on a vial of WLP644 here in South Korea and made a .5L starter a week ago, stepped up to 1L after three days.
A friend and I brewed a 5gal batch of IPA each for an upcoming IPA competition in Busan, S. Korea and took second runnings from each batch for a partigyle IPA (added 3# DME to boost ABV).
I'm actually more excited about the partigyle than either of the original brews! Cheers!

Response by SGT Private RallyPoint Member made May 5 at 2015 7:34 PM

2015-05-05T19:34:02-04:00

I'm going to be brewing up a Kolsch very soon. Great summer beer! But, actually, my two fermenters currently have mead getting ready for winter. I think I need a new carboy.