Comments on: Essential Beer Styles

By: John

John — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:08:26 +0000

My four would be:

Porter
American Amber
American Pale Ale
Sour Beers

Just thought I would support your sour beer fixation. I think my fourth would be Barley Wine. Not sure, but I would like to include a style I could brew and age.

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 19:20:23 +0000

I think my four would be:

IPA (something nice and hoppy for the hoppy moods)
American Brown Ale (A perfect session beer)
Hefeweizen (A beer I could have anytime, on any occasion)
Munich Dunkle (Because the malty goodness of this beer is just out of this world)

That was tough….I need a beer now!

Cheers,
Jason

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:49:10 +0000

CanadaBrew:
I had considered the rotating 4th brew as a seasonal brew. However, for me I have a Holiday beer that I make already and the recipe is perfect. Because I don’t need to change it I didn’t feel that it was something I would need to put in the rotating 4 for perfecting.
Of course, if after brewing say American Cream ale three times I felt like the recipe was finally the way I liked it, maybe I’d change out the Cream ale in the 4 for something new…like sour beers!

By: CanadaBrew

CanadaBrew — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:23:45 +0000

Top 4:

IPA
Chocolate Porter
Fruit flavoured wheat ale (depends what fruit is in season, is that cheating?)
American Pale Ale

Another “theme” could be to have 3 standard beers, and then rotate the fourth throughout the year (christmas ale, pumpkin ale etc.)

By: Chemgeek

Chemgeek — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:58:56 +0000

Only 4. OK:

American Pale Ale
American Cream Ale
Oatmeal stout
ESB

Wow, that was tough.

By: Steph Weber

Steph Weber — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:22:23 +0000

My top four:

American IPA
Bohemian Pilsener
American Stout
Extra Special Bitter

I thought about putting Belgian Tripel in there, but if I brewed/drank that all the time, I’d have a hard time getting much else accomplished