When you are tired of hoppy beers what do you brew?

[eldertaco]

You could also use some pilsner grain ElderTaco. Just maybe use in a hop sock or similar, facepalm from experience.

That's true, and I did consider it but I'm too scared of putrescdnt puke flavours, even though I plan to flush the headspace with CO2. Everything seems to suggest that using a single strain is best if possible.

 

[thumbsucker]

For total refreshent brew a sour - your choice of either a quick lato kettle sour or a traditional aged & cellered sour - embrace the funk!

 

[Judanero]

Pils or lager. I also am a fan of the Helles/ oktoberfest styles, as well as alts and the dark lagers.

Lately I have been using the same malt bill for most of my lager/ pils (4:1 pils/ vienna) but Simcoe for the bittering only, a couple I have also put a very small amount of Citra in the cube, and they've been crackers. Sessionable as.

 

[shacked]

Saison, Belgian Pale, ordinary bitter and lagers.

 

[Moad]

I have rediscovered lagers lately, pils, helles and kolsch have gone down very well so far. Will be branching out to some darker largers next.

There are so many styles to try, have a read of the bjcp guide and find something that you might like then find a suitable recipe. Use that as a base and tweak from there

 

[Coldspace]

I love my hoppy ales IPAs ,
But in the cooler months love my Irish and malty English styles.
Now it's warm, I've just started up a few standard type lagers,

But I'm going to do an IPL next to satisfy my lager fetish and hop fetish ATM . Haven't done an IPL before but next brew day it's in the planning stages. Prob citra based .

Cheers

 

[Midnight Brew]

Aussie lager, a session ale (2 malts, maybe 3, 0.5 bitterness ratio, sub 1040), English bitter, Scottish ale, blonde ale, droids dry ale.

Don’t be afraid of the Aussie lager!

 

[Coldspace]

Aussie lager, a session ale (2 malts, maybe 3, 0.5 bitterness ratio, sub 1040), English bitter, Scottish ale, blonde ale, droids dry ale.

Don’t be afraid of the Aussie lager!

Got my 2 kegmenters full of aussie lagers ATM , smash session hot arvos

 

[Sidney Harbour-Bridge]

Stouts ordinary bitter and wheat beers

 

[SeeFar]

I'll be doing stouts, porters* and malty IPAs when the Summer of Hops is over.





*May be hoppy similar to Waywards Midnight Cowboy.

 

[Droopy Brew]

So many options.
Just brewed my first lager- Pils and loving it, so much better than most commercial examples I've tried.
Love a good hefe- completely different taste to hoppy beers but interesting.
Something dark.
Sours. I have only brewed one (gose) however on a recent trip to NZ I blew my Lupulin threshold to bits in the first day and a half. I switched to sours and it opened my eyes. Great for recalibrating over hopped tastebuds.

 

[hobospy]

Hey Droopy, was interested in trying a sour beer, think I had one when I was going to the Inner Sydney Brew Club but can't quite remember it, was it a commercial one you tried in NZ? Was it any good? Living in Auckland now so keen to know of a good one to go out and try.

 

[Droopy Brew]

Mate NZ is the place for all sorts of beer you lucky *******. I tried a heap over there (Wellington), most of them from local or NZ craft breweries.

Sour beers that I recall were very good and you should be able to find locally are- 8wired (this was a belinner Wiess from a hibiscus infused randal- full beer wanker but also fantastic), Fork and Brewer do some great sours, Cherry 2000 gose was my favourite. Macs do a raspberry berlinner wiess- that wasnt bad. Toll I think, was a Norwegian brewery that was in many places and specialised in single hop sours. sur saison and sur Citra were 2 that come to mind- very sour but the nose on them was amazing.

There are loads of good brew pubs and breweries over there. Get to a few and talk to the guy behind the bar- he will know his stuff and will sort you out.

Also worth noting, sours aint sours. If the first one you have is too sour for your liking, try another that is less sour. Gose is a good entry level. Don't have one and decide they are shit, have 4 or 5 different varieties and if after that you haven't found one that you like then decide they are not for you.

 

[Garfield]

With summer only 3 hours away, I've put away the big hops of my spring ales. I'll be doing Belgians until autumn, including, saison, strong golden, dubbel and a fruit lambic. I also ferment spent grain and distill a blended whiskey each year... but thats a matter for a different forum

 

[Beamer]

I like to brew an alt beir, saison or kolsch. All very easy summer consumption beers too

 

[Hawko777]

I am just curious what others brew if and when they want something other than a beer with a high hop profile or even what people brew who are not into hop forward beers.
"What type of beer do you like", would be an easy question to ask but I like many different styles and probably many that I havent tried.
On most sites that I check for recipes the most popular recipes are radical IPA,s/APA,s like Pliney the whatever. I recently brewed an American amber and I am really happy with it and brewed another straight after a Sierra Nevada Pale Ale that was happening. I do like this beer.
I have a lot of trouble finding recipes that I feel will be balanced.
Does anybody else have this problem and does anyone have advice or ideas or websites that they can trust.

A cup of flaming tea. lol