I now need to decide what to brew next. Since I've been reading 'Brewing Classic Styles by John Palmer and Jamil Zainasheff I'm leaning toward taking one of their recipes and running with it.
If I map out the new few beers I see them in no particular order to be:
1. American IPA.
2. Brown Ale
3. Pale Ale with NZ malts/hops.
4. Porter or Black IPA.
The other tantalizing prospect is that a friend of mine has his own brew kit which he is brewing 100L batches with and he's invited me to help with a brew at some point. I've sampled three of the beers he regularly makes and they are up there with some of the craft beers I've had to drink in the last six months. The opportunity to potentially produce a beer in an all grain set up is exciting. With this in mind I need to take a couple of recipes and refine them to the point where I would be happy to make them on a larger scale - I don't want to make something undrinkable.
I'm also looking to rope in a co-brewer. Someone who is happy to pay for half the cost of the ingredients and take half of the beer at the end. At the moment my brother has said he is keen so we might be kicking things off with the fourth brew this weekend. I don't think I can sustain brewing 30 bottle batches as I'll end up swimming in beer.... at least until I make something that everyone wants to drink!
If I map out the new few beers I see them in no particular order to be:
1. American IPA.
2. Brown Ale
3. Pale Ale with NZ malts/hops.
4. Porter or Black IPA.
The other tantalizing prospect is that a friend of mine has his own brew kit which he is brewing 100L batches with and he's invited me to help with a brew at some point. I've sampled three of the beers he regularly makes and they are up there with some of the craft beers I've had to drink in the last six months. The opportunity to potentially produce a beer in an all grain set up is exciting. With this in mind I need to take a couple of recipes and refine them to the point where I would be happy to make them on a larger scale - I don't want to make something undrinkable.
I'm also looking to rope in a co-brewer. Someone who is happy to pay for half the cost of the ingredients and take half of the beer at the end. At the moment my brother has said he is keen so we might be kicking things off with the fourth brew this weekend. I don't think I can sustain brewing 30 bottle batches as I'll end up swimming in beer.... at least until I make something that everyone wants to drink!
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