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"House" Brews
Do you have a house brew? Something that you brew in between trying every style imaginable. A beer that you love to drink and love to share. Sort of your flagship beer to define yourself as a brewer.
I started this thread here in the recipes group to hopefully get people to share.
I posted my Ordinary Bitter already which is my house brew. Although I still tweak it time to time or use it to play with different yeasts.
I did a quick search, so I hope I am not repeating with this thread.
I actually have four.......American Brown....Irish Red Ale (my favorite)....Blonde Ale.....an My IPA......from there I experiment with other beers and I tweak on the house brews, subtly......I'm trying to perfect them to my liking.....
dartgod wrote:
I'm trying to perfect them to my liking.....
That's what I like to do. I used to brew every style under the sun. Then I started to focus on just a coulpe beers and tweak a little here and a little there. I think its very rewarding to try and bend a beer to fit your palate.
Three;
Brown
Stout
Pale Ale
As dg said, tweeking a little here and there.
Wild
I have my APA, and my IPA I have as house brews. I have only made them once, and need to tweak them. (I think my APA may be actually closer to an IPA 
) (also need to balance the bitterness/malt side of things) I guess my wheat will also be a summer time house brew, (since I have brewed 15G of it this year).
I also brew an Oatmeal stout regularly, that has been in my brew book since the early years.
I usually give that one a rest in the summer though.
And English Brown is my favorite style, so recently I started to brew that regularly.
My current recipe is too dark I think, so I am working to lighten it up.
I have no house, so I have so house brew. I will soon though, have both. I'm debating on a Pale Ale, or a classic American Lager.....
By the time I get around to making a style several times It will probably be Belgian Wit in the summer and Porter in the winter.
All those Irish Reds, Stouts, and Brown Ales in between are either for funsies or by request 
-R
Rubberchrist wrote:
By the time I get around to making a style several times It will probably be Belgian Wit in the summer and Porter in the winter.
All those Irish Reds, Stouts, and Brown Ales in between are either for funsies or by request
-R
I just had a Vanilla Porter for lunch....no need for anything else.....it will stick with you for awhile when it's this warm out 
I plan on having an apa available year round, perhaps it will end up as an ipa in the winter. I think I have a recipe I like, i just want to modify it so its my own, and get it so its cheaper to brew.
I also think I will end up brewing seasonals every year too, once I find recipes I love, a wheat in the summer, a porter in the fall, a stout in the winter etc. Plan on kegging the apa too, once I get my keggerator.
havent been back at brewing long enough to say i have a house brew yet, i've only repeated and tweaked two brews cali common and eng pale ale.
8dot3 wrote:
I plan on having an apa available year round, perhaps it will end up as an ipa in the winter. I think I have a recipe I like, i just want to modify it so its my own, and get it so its cheaper to brew.
I also think I will end up brewing seasonals every year too, once I find recipes I love, a wheat in the summer, a porter in the fall, a stout in the winter etc. Plan on kegging the apa too, once I get my keggerator.
I like having the house brew, because everytime I brew it I can concentrate on brewing not fantasizing what the ingredients will taste like.
I do the Ord. Bitter all year round, and I throw in seasonals around that. Like summer wheats, holiday Ale and Oatmeal Stout.
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