Anything you dont do?

[Josh Hughes]

Don't think I'll ever do another fruit beer. The attempt at a pina colada demonstrated just how horrible a brew can be. The mango was at least drinkable but not great either. Noisy Bear wrote, "Keep it simple", and "Less is more". Best advice I've received on the BF forum.

Also been my approach the last year or so. A Base malt and a splash of something if it’s needed. I do mix Munich and Pilsner though but I don’t really think of that as complex.

 

[KaijuSoul]

Also been my approach the last year or so. A Base malt and a splash of something if it’s needed. I do mix Munich and Pilsner though but I don’t really think of that as complex.

Don't think I'll ever do another fruit beer. The attempt at a pina colada demonstrated just how horrible a brew can be. The mango was at least drinkable but not great either. Noisy Bear wrote, "Keep it simple", and "Less is more". Best advice I've received on the BF forum.

kinda do things the same way in my cooking and herbal teas. a few key ingredients and you have your base, bases are good, they are simple, and you can expand the base and add flavor or keep it simple. im certainly never gonna make a pina colada beer, coconut is gross lol.

 

[Sandy Feet]

The first Schwarzbier I tasted I brewed haha. Didn’t know if it was right but I loved it. Then I had a commercial one from Germany and mine had the right taste to be in the style.

I would like to do one at some point. The ones that I liked were local...and better yet, Spaceballs themed.

Don't think I'll ever do another fruit beer. The attempt at a pina colada demonstrated just how horrible a brew can be. The mango was at least drinkable but not great either. Noisy Bear wrote, "Keep it simple", and "Less is more". Best advice I've received on the BF forum.

Fruit can work in a Saison. I did a blueberry one that I liked and a lemon one. I also had a pumpkin beer turn out when I remembered the enzymes in the pumpkin.

 

[Daniel Parshley]

kinda do things the same way in my cooking and herbal teas. a few key ingredients and you have your base, bases are good, they are simple, and you can expand the base and add flavor or keep it simple. im certainly never gonna make a pina colada beer, coconut is gross lol.

Coconut produces a lot of oil, too. My bride and I had a coconut brown on Maui that was good. Efforts to make it were not. My guess is flavoring was used rather than raw coconut.

 

[KaijuSoul]

Coconut produces a lot of oil, too. My bride and I had a coconut brown on Maui that was good. Efforts to make it were not. My guess is flavoring was used rather than raw coconut.

i can explain from many years of cooking that yes the two are vastly different. Like no watermelon flavor tastes like actual watermelon. So more than likely a more appropriate flavor was used in the beer, or a tincture of coconut or pressing, to separate the oils out then use the flavor byproduct of the coconut material. just taking a guess but its a way to pull it off. maybe you could try some different methods and try again?

 

[Over The Cliff Brewing]

I like the experimentation of brewing beer and cider. I have not brewed many styles but I never limit myself on which style I'm never going to brew. I don't brew many darks beers (porters and stouts) but I have brewed them. I enjoy creating a beer within a style without BJCP restrictions. In 9 years, I've only had 3 dumpers that I can recall. So I try many styles, some I have never tried, such as a Dark Mild I did a couple of weeks ago. Be creative. It will be beer and somebody will drink it!

 

[Sandy Feet]

I have been a few places lately where they will let the bar staff design a recipe. At two of them, the girls have come up with something a little less hoppy than a normal Pale Ale and in the 5s alcohol wise. I had one of them today, and I enjoyed the hell out of it. So, a plus 1 to your experimentation post if you like it.

 

[dmtaylor]

I have been a few places lately where they will let the bar staff design a recipe. At two of them, the girls have come up with something a little less hoppy than a normal Pale Ale and in the 5s alcohol wise. I had one of them today, and I enjoyed the hell out of it. So, a plus 1 to your experimentation post if you like it.

Sounds like an American Blonde Ale. It'd be even cooler if at least some of the gals who designed it are blonde.