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I was thinking earlier today about which 5 styles of beer I like brewing and drinking the most.

If you could only brew 5 different styles for the next 5 years what would they be?

My 5 are;

1. Belgian Pale
2. American Amber
3.Belgian IPA
4.American Brown
5.Saison
 
In no particular order.

1. Pale Ale
2. British Golden Ale
3. Strong dark beer, as in a stout/porter around 6 - 7%
4. Belgian Pale
5. Best Bitter

1 and 2 are quite similar since only the hops change but the are technically different styles. The next would be Old Ale probably since it's so wide in definition. I brew a heap of styles but they mostly fall into a theme of pale to amber with low to moderate bitterness and hopping.
 
Imperial Stout (its so easy to hide mistakes)
SAISON!
Generic pale ale
Dunkel
Wee Heavy

edit, this is likely to change next week and the week after...
 
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american Ipa/pale ale
english IPA/pale ale
American amber ale
ESB
belgium dubble

i think there is a very fluid line between pale ales and IPAs that seems to change from brewer to brewer
 
1. Bitter
2. Mild
3. Stout
4. IPA (American)
5. British Golden Ale

Given you have put no restrictions on buying beer I can always supplement this with the odd Barley Wine or DIPA but most beers I make fall into the five categories above,
 
1. Traditional English bitter its what got me into this
2. Dry stout - most successful brews to date according to family
3. Barleywine - only one to date but had a lot of fun putting recipe together and end product right in my wheelhouse
4. APA - used to hate all these hoppy 'craft' beers but since brewing for last 3 years this has really piqued my interest around different hops and styles.
5. Old ale - purely because in my own opinion my Old Tom clone is my best beer and intend to do again....and again
 
Zephyr259 said:
In no particular order.

1. Pale Ale
2. British Golden Ale
3. Strong dark beer, as in a stout/porter around 6 - 7%
4. Belgian Pale
5. Best Bitter

1 and 2 are quite similar since only the hops change but the are technically different styles. The next would be Old Ale probably since it's so wide in definition. I brew a heap of styles but they mostly fall into a theme of pale to amber with low to moderate bitterness and hopping.
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Horners said:
1. Traditional English bitter its what got me into this
2. Dry stout - most successful brews to date according to family
3. Barleywine - only one to date but had a lot of fun putting recipe together and end product right in my wheelhouse
4. APA - used to hate all these hoppy 'craft' beers but since brewing for last 3 years this has really piqued my interest around different hops and styles.
5. Old ale - purely because in my own opinion my Old Tom clone is my best beer and intend to do again....and again
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Interesting old ale had been mentioned twice. Our local brewery had been brewing an old ale and a friend of mine said it was one of his favourite beers they did....it wasn't a big seller in the brewery was the response from the staff🤔
 
dave_77 said:
Interesting old ale had been mentioned twice. Our local brewery had been brewing an old ale and a friend of mine said it was one of his favourite beers they did....it wasn't a big seller in the brewery was the response from the staff🤔
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I mentioned wee heavy as well which I think is very similar?
 
5!?!?!?
I usually only brew 2
Ale and IPA

But I suppose if you are being picky then that could be split in to traditional English ale, English pale ale, dark ale
And IPA is a minefield of different cultist sects inhabited by folks obsessive about 3 and 5 letter acronyms
IPA
Neipa
Dipa
Wcipa
Ecipa
Blahblah
 
1. Best Bitter
2. English IPA
3. Blonde
4. Strong fruity dark English Ale like Adnams Broadside
5. Stout
 
Pilsner - very hard to find a good UK made one unfortunately, what a wonderful beer when made properly though
Bitter - very broad church, pale to brown, sweet to dry, bitter to bland, modern to traditional.
Strong Ale - including aged (bretted etc)and fresher in this.
Porter- includes stout porter too of course :)
Saison- because saison.
 
I would put Porter and Stout in the same basket.
ESB and IPA as above.
Ordinary Bitter.
Best Bitter.
Golden Ale.
Not necessarily in that order.
A bit of trivia, the taste bud cells are replaced each and every week, usually about 9.30 am on a Monday. Having drank more than my fair share of extremely hoppy AIPA's I am pleased to announce my taste buds have resumed normal service.
 
Zephyr259 said:
What's your Old Tom clone recipe? Is it the one from Wheeler's book?
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Looking at it looks largely the GW recipe - main difference is the addition of just under 1% Carafa III to the grist. In terms if other variables - mashed a bit lower at 64C probably not by design. Crystal used was 200 EBC. Yeast, 2 packs of our old friend Wilkos Nottingham. Not sure re fermentation temperature will have to see whether its in the log.
 

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