Hard To Buy, Good To Brew

[mondestrunken]

Thanks! That's just about every style...

For my mind, I really love English-style ales/bitters, crisp, fruity and just hoppy enough. Australian examples are pretty rare, and imports are too expensive for what it is: close to $10 for a pint bottle.

I just need to find a good recipe for what I want (I'm doing BIAB partial mash at the moment) - I'll have a good look around here.

Seems also that Kolsch and Altbier are favourites as well.

Cheers.

:icon_cheers:

 

[benno1973]

Smoked beers and English beers for me. Rauchbiers are available close by, but not a huge selection so it's nice to be able to brew something different every once in a while. I find some English beers tend to travel poorly or just taste flaccid from the bottle so I like to have them fresh and on tap.

And anything with an insane amount of hops.

 

[mudd]

Good thread. Few ideas for me. Half of these beers I've never heard of.

 

[petesbrew]

Good thread. Few ideas for me. Half of these beers I've never heard of.

Google "Beeriodic Table"
and/or have a look on the BJCP website for the styles.

 

[Mikedub]

Something not that easy to find is infected/under pitched/oxygenated beers, so I occasionally make my own

 

[tricache]

Google "Beeriodic Table"
and/or have a look on the BJCP website for the styles.

Thats AWESOME!!

 

[benno1973]

Something not that easy to find is infected/under pitched/oxygenated beers, so I occasionally make my own

From memory, Bridge Road produced a wide range of infected beers a while back.

 

[Jay Cee]

Something not that easy to find is infected/under pitched/oxygenated beers, so I occasionally make my own

You clearly havent tried Holgate's ESB

 

[hsb]

LOL ^^

If I could pick a difficult to find style it would without doubt be Belgian Sours/Lambics.
Sadly, they are harder to find/more expensive as they are harder to make/take ages, go figure!

More mainstream, definitely English Ales/Milds - get ever harder to find here it seems, and what does arrive comes in ever worse condition. Far better to brew your own, especially for such a short-lived style of beer (at its peak at least.)

Belgians too for me - not hard to get but expensive and I can't think of a more obvious example of a real 'craft' style of brewing that is an inspiration to try and recreate. /Me puts on hairshirt and sets about bbbbrewing bbbelgians.

 

[mje1980]

+1 for koelsh. Simple grain bill, simple beer. Great flavour, if you're patient enough to let it condition. Mine's usually almost gone by the time it hits "peak" condition haha.