I’ve done a couple of like-for-like bottle swaps recently. Whilst it was great to sample the efforts and receive critique from other brewers, I’d always finished my own stock when their beer came in. So the idea is:
We select a style a number of people wanted to try out.
Participating brewers research and plan their own recipe.
Brew days happen around the same time, so bottles are ready to distribute around the same time too.
Everyone gets to try their own efforts against a couple of the other brewers taking part.
The hope is to reduce the number of iterations brewed before settling on a recipe, and seeing how your beer and brewing method measures up against others. It would also be a route to trying a style you may otherwise not have thought of brewing.
So, the proposal is an early January brew with a view to a late February bottle swap. My suggestions for style are either American Cream Ale or Belgian Blonde, but if anyone is interested and has another style in mind post below. (That is one of the points of the exercise after all).
Does anyone fancy giving it a go?
We select a style a number of people wanted to try out.
Participating brewers research and plan their own recipe.
Brew days happen around the same time, so bottles are ready to distribute around the same time too.
Everyone gets to try their own efforts against a couple of the other brewers taking part.
The hope is to reduce the number of iterations brewed before settling on a recipe, and seeing how your beer and brewing method measures up against others. It would also be a route to trying a style you may otherwise not have thought of brewing.
So, the proposal is an early January brew with a view to a late February bottle swap. My suggestions for style are either American Cream Ale or Belgian Blonde, but if anyone is interested and has another style in mind post below. (That is one of the points of the exercise after all).
Does anyone fancy giving it a go?