Suggestions for next brew?

ESB comes to mind. Simple recipe, but awesome. Look up a fullers ESB Recipe. I recently brewed the 'Can you brew it' version of fullers. it uses 4 different hops and turned out very nice!

 

Do a golden ale with your hops of choice. something like a mix of ekg/challenger/first gold/styrian goldings etc



Another suggestion, elderflowers are in bloom here, if there are any where you are they could go quite well with more restrained hops like ekg/noble hops etc. use them late in the boil

 

Belgian single with Brett.

 

A low grav mild, something like 1035, pearl/optic with a touch of pale chocolate, high mash temp, EKG/fuggles and 1968

 

Wheel-O-smash! Dartboard. Two darts. First dart... Assign base malts 1-4, 5-8, 9-12, 13-16, 17-20 2-row, Vienna, Munich, Golden Promise, Maris Otter. 2nd dart... assign 5 hops similarly and toss a dart. Hop schedule 60 min to 40 IBUs, 10, 5, 1 oz each, FO 3 oz, DH 3 oz. Done and done.

 

Got any extra ingredients you want to use up on hand? That will assist in the "cost" factor.

I'd say right now a simple wheat beer would hit the spot. Keep it low in OG, hop it neatly with something citrusy and call it done.

That.. or if you want simple, I don't think you can knock a Pilsner/Wheat combo with something noble, or maybe even galaxy and hit it with a saison yeast.

Pilsner
Wheat Malt

Galaxy to bitter and aroma .Somewhere around 25-30 IBU's all together.

3711 yeast. Ferment it warm, it'll be dry as heck, so you can keep the OG really low as it'll probably get under 1.005. Keeping a low OG saves you on some grain.

 

He wants something "slightly" hoppy, a "little" fruity and floral, and "lower" cost. I don't think 8+ ounces of hops is what he was looking for, but to each his own.

 

well drop it to 2 oz at FO and 2 oz dry hop if you're really super broke. But if you're SO broke that you can't envision affording anything but 2-row and the cheepest hops your LHBS has in minimal quantities, maybe you should consider buying food instead of beer.

 

I don't think anyone here was saying they are broke. I know I certainly have never brewed and had money on my mind. I wouldn't rag on someone trying to make a cheap recipe, myself.


Beyond the money issue which you decided to hone in on, it didn't appear that over half a pound of hops seemed something feasible for a light floral, slightly hoppy session beer.

Maybe instead of throwing a bunch of hops into a beer you should consider paying for reading comprehension skills.

 

A saison with some some british hops might fit the bill pretty well. A wheat in the same vein might also be appropriate.

 

Pilsner smash with some noble hop.

I think a saison yeast or a belgian yeast of some sort would be nice.

 

Alternatively Fatcity was on something with a wheat bear...

 

A good smash for me of 1060 OG is $22-$26 unless the hops are expensive or rare, and assuming I'm using dry yeast of common varieties (US-04, S-04, etc). There's not much I can realistically do to save money on this.

 

AMERICAN WHEAT

 

Some of us aren't rollin` in green--if you know what I mean.

 

When you homebrew thought you are buying forty pints at a time, so I can see why you might want to save a bit. I buy grains by the sack, so I'm essentially buying two hundred pints or more at a time. It's probably more of an issue here where we get reamed by the tax man when buying beer- I can make homebrew up to 1/10th of the price of a shop/bar bought beer for example, whereas the price differential is less in most of the US.

 

American wheat beer remains the cheepest beer I've ever made.