Future Beer Ideas

Propaganda

Pale Ale
~4.5%

When I realised I could get my hands on some Wolf hops (also called Styrian Wolf), I'm pretty keen to find out how it'd taste. Wolves, man. From Slovenia. Mango, lemon, lemongrass. Beer. But mostly wolves. Because I am not immune to propaganda.

Dog In A Park

Garden Ale
~4%

Stone & Wood once made a Garden Ale that tasted like lavender and herbs. They used Ella in that. I wouldn't mind trying to make a similar mid-strength floral bouquet beer. East Kent Goldings might be the other hop to accompany it.

Shed Beer

Low-Alcohol
1%

The first iteration of VICE Draught, without the smoked malt. A clean, light beer that's perfect for a break after you've been working in a hot shed, but you still gotta drive later. Responsible refreshment.

Milo Breakfast Stout

Oatmeal Stout
6.7%

Mikkeler Beer Geek Breakfast is apparently a famous and often-replicated breakfast stout with coffee. But what if we add Milo to it for a complete breakfast? We wouldn't be the first to try.

Hard L&P

Hard Lemonade
6%

The cheatiest form of brewing is getting something already really sugary and adding yeast to it. We could skip half the brewday and get straight to fermenting with just lemon juice, sugar and water and do it on the cheap according to Rainford's Brew Lab YouTube. Meanwhile I'll ponder what makes NZ's famous lemonade, L&P, distinctive that we could add in there too to mimic it. Ginger? Spices?

Centennial Blonde

Blonde Ale
4.2%

This easy-drinking light-coloured ale is the most popular beer on the Homebrew Talk forum. That many people can't be wrong. I've got a recipe in metric ready to go.

Blue Moon

American Wheat Ale
5%

Blue Moon is a neat American witbier that uses orange peel and coriander. They'd be new additions to me. It's a rather popular beer over there too, served with an orange slice. So popular that the forums have hunted for the most authentic recreation.

Sippy Cup

Kentucky Common
5%

Kentucky Common is an old regional style, a Dark Cream Ale, that only beer nerds seem interested in, but this beer nerd got interested when Irondale Brewing said that the creaminess of the corn and the chocolate rye combined in a way that reminded them of chocolate milk. Which they hated, but I think sounds incredible.

Mountain Goat Hightail Ale

American Amber Ale
5.4%

This was requested for me to brew, and I'm immensely sympathetic to that, as it was my answer for my favourite beer for the better part of 10 years. Some info on how to make it has been gleaned, but not perfected. This recipe seems like a decent start. After I run out of the Irish Red Ale, that is.