Fall BKB Community Brew?
Not sure if this would be coming too early or too late, but anyone have any plans for a Fall BKB community Brew? There was alot of input for the spring brew, would be fun to see what would happen for a fall brew
Hey, Nice idea. I am actually thinking several different directions with no specific recipes as of yet. I would suggest a pumpkin ale, a coffee stout, or possibly a high gravity brew like that Belgiun Trippel that the northeast guys brewed up in the Spring 2010 Massachusetts Brewday (lucky bastards). Just my thoughts but really kind of wide open at the moment.
Thanks for bringing this up. I meant to start a thread a week or two about this but totally forgot. A coffee stout isn't a bad idea and neither is a pumpkin beer however it'd have to be an exact clone for Pumking in order for me to make it. 
That stuff is awesome. The thign with a high gravity beer is that it takes time to condition so it might not be ready for this particular season. Not saying we can't do it but its something that has to be taken into consideration.
Anybody have any other ideas? I've compiled a list of the community brew recipes in Beersmith and so far we've already done American Brown, Scottish 80, Blonde Ale, Spiced Rye, Kolsch, Oatmeal Stout, Newcastle clone, American Pale ale, Sweet Stout, and I'm sure there's a few others that were done before I found the forum.
I've been wanting to brew up some variation of a porter, whether it be a robust porter or brown porter. I've also been wanting to brew a really good English IPA recipe I made a year ago.
What about a nice honey ESB?
ID
Kinda liking the brown porter, never did one. I read the description, & it sounds good.
combine the coffee stout and brown porter ideas and do a coffee porter.
Hogarthe wrote:
combine the coffee stout and brown porter ideas and do a coffee porter.
Coincidentally, I'm currently working on a recipe for a friend; its a coffee and cream imperial brown porter using cold steeped coffee and lactose.
FirePitBrew wrote:
Hogarthe wrote:
combine the coffee stout and brown porter ideas and do a coffee porter.
Coincidentally, I'm currently working on a recipe for a friend; its a coffee and cream imperial brown porter using cold steeped coffee and lactose.
that sounds interesting. and tasty!
yum coffee and cream porter. Yeah that sounds good!
ID
FirePitBrew wrote:
Coincidentally, I'm currently working on a recipe for a friend; its a coffee and cream imperial brown porter using cold steeped coffee and lactose.
FirePitBrew's Coffee and Cream Imperial Brown Porter - 
I'm up for that....
I'm down with whatever.
A pumpkin ale would have been nice this year, sadly I won't have any homegrown pumpkins to use. The combination of high temps and a squash bug infestation killed off my pumpkins early this year. I had ripe pumpkins by the end of June,I think due to the high temps, but they were all ruined by squash bugs. Shortly after that the vines were attacked by the bugs and that was the end of it.
Mortician607 wrote:
I'm down with whatever.
A pumpkin ale would have been nice this year, sadly I won't have any homegrown pumpkins to use. The combination of high temps and a squash bug infestation killed off my pumpkins early this year. I had ripe pumpkins by the end of June,I think due to the high temps, but they were all ruined by squash bugs. Shortly after that the vines were attacked by the bugs and that was the end of it.
Over the years I brewed a lot of pumpkin beers and I find the best way (IMO) was to cut a pumpkin in quarters, sprinkle brown sugar and pumpkin pie spices on it, roast it for an hour at 350, then scoop out the meat from the skin, mash the meat with your grains and continue as you would in a regular brew.
the roasted pumpkin adds a nice color and slight pumpkin taste. that said, I won't be making a pumpkin beer this year. I move into an apartment and it is not homebrew friendly. I will be sticking to a sweet stout and the mack and jack clone as my brews for the remainder of the year.
But I do have a really nice Cyser fermentin away right now. Had to try it. Never made one before.
DC
pumpkin...blah! Keep the pumpkin in my pie and away from my beer.
I'll probably end up doing a pumpkin ale, but not till I can find pumpkins in the supermarket or maybe a farmer's market.
I've done only one pumpkin ale in the past, and that was an all grain kit that I got from Midwest. In that case I cut the pumpkin up, roasted it in the oven for a bit, and added it and the spices during the last 10-15mins of the boil. I got a decent color and good pumpin flavor out of that.
This year, I plan on trying to come up with my own recipe. We'll see how it goes.
andrew jensen wrote:
pumpkin...blah! Keep the pumpkin in my pie and away from my beer.
+1
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