Here's my recipe for this quarter's community brew. A session strength, hop forward golden ale. These are my favorite types of beers to drink: medium bitterness, hoppy but not juicy, and lower alcohol but not thin.
Feel free to post questions about it here. I'm sure people will be making their own substitutions, but there are 2 things about this recipe that make it what it is: the use of rye malt and Vienna, and the yeast choice. If you can get the malts it really makes a difference. And the yeast should be either BRY 97 or Mangrove Jack M44. Both are West Coast yeast strains, but are different than Chico. Although this beer does really well with kveik strains too.
Use your favorite bittering hop at 60 minutes, it shouldn't matter. You can swap the others out, but this recipe is meant to showcase hops. So I prefer pacific northwest and New world hops that really stand out: Citra, Simcoe, Mosaic, Galaxy, Nectaron, Talus, McKenzie, etc.
The 5 minute hop additions could be used in a 20 minute whirlpool at flameout instead, if you're into that sort of thing. Contributes very similar IBUs to the wort and maintains a bit more hop flavor/aroma (at least in theory).
I hope y'all like it!
https://www.brewersfriend.com/homebrew/recipe/view/1500460/on-tap-ale
Feel free to post questions about it here. I'm sure people will be making their own substitutions, but there are 2 things about this recipe that make it what it is: the use of rye malt and Vienna, and the yeast choice. If you can get the malts it really makes a difference. And the yeast should be either BRY 97 or Mangrove Jack M44. Both are West Coast yeast strains, but are different than Chico. Although this beer does really well with kveik strains too.
Use your favorite bittering hop at 60 minutes, it shouldn't matter. You can swap the others out, but this recipe is meant to showcase hops. So I prefer pacific northwest and New world hops that really stand out: Citra, Simcoe, Mosaic, Galaxy, Nectaron, Talus, McKenzie, etc.
The 5 minute hop additions could be used in a 20 minute whirlpool at flameout instead, if you're into that sort of thing. Contributes very similar IBUs to the wort and maintains a bit more hop flavor/aroma (at least in theory).
I hope y'all like it!
https://www.brewersfriend.com/homebrew/recipe/view/1500460/on-tap-ale
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