As part of my education in "good" () beers, I have been exploring one style at time. Since I started this project in the winter, when I was largely drinking porters and stouts, I decided to drink lighter as the weather warmed - thus I did brown ales, and am almost done with the 6 amber ales I chose to try. At this point I think I will proceed to American Pales Ales, and the to IPA's. Again, about a half dozen each, probably. After that the weather should be warm enough for more summery beers. I am thinking wheat beers, either Belgian or German style. Laagers only if it is still warm when I am done with the warm weather style ales.
Definitely a fun way to go about it, and I still follow this pattern with new beers now. I find jumping into seasonal rotations, along with the breweries releases, they tend to be fairly fresh. Enjoy!
I don't know how close you are to Devil's Backbone, but you could take a trip there and try a little of everything. Make a summer weekend out of it.
Honestly, just keep going and try every style. You'll learn a lot and I'm sure you'll enjoy some styles that you otherwise wouldn't even get into.
I like your method of style exploration, I'm no where near that discipline, I take more a shotgun approach
for me beer isnt seasonal....ill drink a 15% stout in the dead of summer and a farmhouse/iipa in the dead of winter.
@Dil_thebeerdrinking_do beat me by a couple minutes, but nailed it ... yeah, if you're in 90 degree heat you may not want to be drinking a 234237489% ABV beer, but generally, beer has no season. I enjoy all styles year round, and that's how it should be. The old cliche "variety is the spice of life" is very true -- for me, anyway.
