What would your dream beer be?

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  1. mkh012

    mkh012 Pooh-Bah (1,681) May 7, 2015 Colorado
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    Just for shits...

    If you could have any brewery brew any beer with you as the creative lead, what would you want? I'd go with:
    • A nice 7%ish IPA with Galaxy, Mosaic, and Simcoe from Trillium, or:
    • An 8%ish Porter with dark chocolate and garam masala from Kane. I'm obsessed with the idea of some light garam masala spice in a dark beer, and Kane could pull it off.
    I'm sure a lot of you have a flavor combo in mind that your favorite breweries could pull off. I would buy a case of the IPA described above.
     
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  2. dennis3951

    dennis3951 Initiate (0) Mar 6, 2008 New Jersey

    an SNPA clone
     
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  3. Giantspace

    Giantspace Pooh-Bah (2,879) Dec 22, 2011 Pennsylvania
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    Apricot IPA with the apricot really coming through.

    Ginger IPA could be nice too

    Lemon grass ginger saison

    Enjoy
     
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  4. jhavs

    jhavs Grand Pooh-Bah (3,551) Apr 16, 2015 New York
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    I will answer this in a bit different way. As a home brewer I have had some brews that seemed like great ideas that I couldn't quite pull off. I would like to see what a true brewing virtuoso could do.
    One I tried twice was a Pink Peppercorn and Prickly Pear Wild Ale. First batch ended up bland, second batch I tried to age in oak. Something went wrong. Seems like Upland, Hill Farmstead, Side Project, Rare Barrel handle fruited wilds/sours incredibly well. I'd like to try this flavor combo from one of them.
     
  5. rozzom

    rozzom Pooh-Bah (2,534) Jan 22, 2011 New York
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    Something along the lines of What is Enlightenment- a flavourful pale ale around the 5% mark
     
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  6. Jugs_McGhee

    Jugs_McGhee Grand Pooh-Bah (5,956) Aug 15, 2010 Colorado
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    I'd have Schlenkerla make me a Mandarina Bavaria hopped rauchweizen (with at least 60% of the grain bill as wheat malt) aged briefly in liquid smoke barrels from Colgin.
     
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  7. woodchipper

    woodchipper Grand Pooh-Bah (3,321) Oct 25, 2005 Connecticut
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    What's wrong with the original?
     
  8. Shanex

    Shanex Grand Pooh-Bah (4,466) Dec 10, 2015 France
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    Apricot syrups is a fave of mine, so a 7% apricot IPA would suit me just fine. Seconded.

    Founders Breakfast Stout with even more chocolate.

    I am not much a creative guy. Will let others speak.
     
  9. BBThunderbolt

    BBThunderbolt Grand High Pooh-Bah (7,282) Sep 24, 2007 Kiribati
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    A nice, smooth, easy drinking Pale, around 6%, with a wee bit of Brett, and a dry finish.
     
  10. Harrison8

    Harrison8 Grand Pooh-Bah (5,771) Dec 6, 2015 Missouri
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    Not the "what would your dream beer be?" question I was expecting.

    If I could work with a brewery? I'd brew up a single origin coffee series inside a medium-bodied milk stout. Think Tree House's Double Shot series, but with easier access, more frequent releases, and a specific focus on creating beers with specific single origin coffee beans.

    In fact, should I ever opt to get into home brewing, I'd most likely start with a milk stout and then add various cold brew single origins in 2/3 of the batch upon bottling.
     
  11. thedaveofbeer

    thedaveofbeer Savant (1,169) Mar 25, 2016 Massachusetts
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    oaked aged bud light-I kid kid. I just wish Nelson hops were more popular so I could find more accessible Nelson forward IPAs and DIPAs. I can't wait to crack a Scaled Way Up from Trillium tomorrow. It sounds like everything I am looking for in a DIPA.
     
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  12. BalancingBrooms

    BalancingBrooms Pooh-Bah (2,800) Aug 22, 2013 California
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    As a homebewer I’ve been trying to perfect my Rye Belgian Pale with Brett.

    Would love to see Russian River do one, or Monkish for a hoppier version

    As a side I would love to make a GI Sofie Paradisi Clone
     
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  13. herrburgess

    herrburgess Grand Pooh-Bah (3,053) Nov 4, 2009 South Carolina
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    Ha!

    ...wait, right?
     
  14. Squire

    Squire Grand Pooh-Bah (4,081) Jul 16, 2015 Mississippi
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    I would go to Germany and drink lagers at the source. The dream would be all expenses paid.
     
  15. Giantspace

    Giantspace Pooh-Bah (2,879) Dec 22, 2011 Pennsylvania
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    Try Fear of a Brett Planet if you can find it near you. One of my favorite beers.

    Enjoy
     
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  16. BBThunderbolt

    BBThunderbolt Grand High Pooh-Bah (7,282) Sep 24, 2007 Kiribati
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    Who makes it?


    Also, as to the OP, I actually keep nagging a couple of my neighborhood breweries to brew up a Wheatwine. Wheatwines do not get enough love.
     
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  17. Jay_P22

    Jay_P22 Initiate (0) Mar 17, 2016 Virginia

    A double barrel apple Brandy stout with coconut and vanilla made by sideproject
     
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  18. Sweatshirt

    Sweatshirt Initiate (0) Jan 27, 2014 New Hampshire
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    Collabs are bad enough .We don't need the bandy-legged fuzzy faced fanboys throwing in thier $0.02 .
     
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  19. Giantspace

    Giantspace Pooh-Bah (2,879) Dec 22, 2011 Pennsylvania
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    Round guys

    Enjoy
     
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  20. flaskman

    flaskman Initiate (0) Aug 3, 2015 New York

    Free and plentiful !!!
     
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