What style do you no longer make?

Yeah, but for the most part they're all mediocre, IMHO

 

There are indeed a large variety of commercial IPAs but I continue to homebrew them (4 batches a year) since I prefer to tailor the hops to my preference.

I have a Centennial/Simcoe/Mosaic IPA in my primary right now in the dry hop phase. There may be a commercial IPA out there that has this hop mix but I am unaware of it. My next IPA will be a Galaxy IPA. I am not aware of any Galaxy IPAs that I can purchase so I make my own.

When it comes to the IPA beer style freshness is key. Nothing is fresher than homebrewed beer!!

Cheers!

 

I've haven't brewed a red, blond or amber ale in a long time. They just naturally fell out of my rotation.

Is there a retro craft brew movement yet? You know, kind of beer you used to find in every brewpub during the first boom in the 90's. Every pub seemed to have a blond and and amber.

 

True, but saving money is part of the homebrew appeal

 

Used to love Redhook Blonde back in the late 90's, as well as Widmer hefe, that someone posted about in another thread (Oregon hefe). Don't think much of them nowadays, but I could definitely see those styles come back for nostalgia's sake.

 

Witbiers. I occasionally taste an interesting commercial example but for the most part they bore me.

And I may be getting there with IPA's for the opposite reason. I love playing with new hops and addition schemes, but I'm the only hophead in the house and we only have 2 neighbors within 3 miles that appreciate the stuff. I just can't drink 'em up before they get stale (despite mighty efforts). I'll always make them for parties and such but they are probably leaving my rotation except for the odd 1-2 gallon test brew.

 

I tell myself every year to stop brewing brown ales, but always end up brewing at least two versions of one.

That being said, I will probably brew a mild for the summer.

 

I brew primarily IPAs because I can I guarantee they'll be fresh and to my likening.

The style I no longer brew is helles and pils. I live 10 minutes from Victory and they nail these, so it makes no sense to brew it when I can buy the best.

 

Rye for me too, although "no longer" is kind of inaccurate ... I brewed a rye beer one time, my 13th beer overall (I'm up to 90 now). After a couple weeks in the bottle, it started to taste like strawberry frosting (yet not in a good way). I have not yet worked up the courage to try another rye

 

Victory makes a great tasting pilsner, so they nail it from that perspective. I wish I lived 10 minutes away, for the Pils and some others too. But IMO it's not a very good representation of a traditional german pils. (I'm pretty sure that's not their goal, either.)

 

In my experience, ryes often have a little bit of spiciness to them (a "spice" as in "spice cake" kind of flavor). This one just took that to such an extreme that it tasted like artificial strawberry flavoring. It was highly bizarre and, white I'm sure there were other factors making that brew so weird, the rye sticks in my brain as the culprit

 

What clinched it for me was trying Sierra Nevada's Ruthless Rye. I initially thought that I had just brewed my rye beer poorly. When I tried Ruthless Rye and discovered that I didn't like a well-brewed rye beer, then I knew it was time to leave this style alone.