I have it on good authority that Santa will be bringing me a pump and/or grain mill this Christmas, so the odds are good I’ll be brewing my first self-sufficient batch by the New Year. My only dilemma is, what should it be?
- My go-to “house” recipe, Behold a Pale Ale.
- My other house recipe, Man in Black Lager. It’s a sort of bastardized American Schwarzbier-Vienna Lager hybrid. I can easily ferment lagers in the garage right now, but maintaining lagering temperatures for any length of time would be a lot of effort. Fortunately I only need to lager this for a couple weeks.
- A doppelbock. I’d really like to have one on tap in the spring, which means I’d need to get cracking on it, but I think 2-3 months of lagering is probably impractical under the circumstances.
- A single-hop IPA. I haven’t decided exactly what yet, but it would most likely be Centennial or Columbus.
- A “redemption” porter, to avenge the one that I brewed a couple months ago and subsequently let pick up a (mild) Lactobacillus infection.
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Saisons are typically brewed in winter for consumption in the spring… and no lagering necessary. OR a Cream Ale, an ale that gets finished with lager yeast… it’s just crazy enough to be delicious.
Everyone lost. I’m doing an APA on Wednesday.