Do you have a go to recipe or a house beer?

[ncmcdonald]

I rarely brew the same beer more than a handful of times. I think I really need a go to beer to have on tap at all times so I was wondering what everyone here does.

The only beers I really go to more than once are pale ales, something like:

90% Pale Malt
5% Carapils
2.5% Biscuit Malt
2.5% Crystal

Then a big aroma hop on top of that, most commonly Cascade, Centennial or one of the other C's.

[seymour]

Not an exact recurring recipe, but I often revert to variations on a multigrain Belgian Farmhouse Ale theme. Infinite possibilities from simple ingredients.

[sunny_jimbob]

My bog standard regular bitter is below. Light, refreshing and thirst quenching, and it's so straightforward I can brew it with my eyes shut!

Spectral Line
Standard/Ordinary Bitter

Recipe Specs
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Batch Size (L): 17.5
Total Grain (kg): 3.170
Total Hops (g): 33.00
Original Gravity (OG): 1.040 (°P): 10.0
Final Gravity (FG): 1.010 (°P): 2.6
Alcohol by Volume (ABV): 3.93 %
Colour (SRM): 5.0 (EBC): 9.9
Bitterness (IBU): 26.9 (Average – No Chill Adjusted)
Brewhouse Efficiency (%): 70
Boil Time (Minutes): 60

Grain Bill
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3.000 kg Maris Otter Malt (94.64%)
0.170 kg Torrified Wheat (5.36%)

Hop Bill
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12.0 g First Gold Leaf (8.34% Alpha) @ 60 Minutes (Boil) (0.7 g/L)
12.0 g First Gold Leaf (8.34% Alpha) @ 5 Minutes (Boil) (0.7 g/L)
9.0 g First Gold Leaf (8.34% Alpha) @ 0 Minutes (Boil) (0.5 g/L)

Misc Bill
—————-
3.0 g Irish Moss @ 20 Minutes (Boil)

Single step Infusion at 66°C for 90 Minutes.
Fermented at 20°C with Safale S-04

Recipe Generated with BrewMate

[Barley Water]

I guess if I had to have a "go to" recipe it would be the London Pride recipe out of Wheeler's book. The only thing I did to it was add a smidge of bisquet malt but I just love that stuff and it does well in contests; I win something every time I enter it. Of course, that is a blessing and a curse at the same time. I like it so well I can't bring myself to try some of the other recipes in the book. I figure, why chance something new and untried (at least by me) when I know I have a sure thing with the London Pride recipe. Incidentally, does anyone have a favorite out of that book besides that, I really need to expand my horizons.

When it comes to drinking beer I must admit I am rather "slutty". I always make sure that I have three different kinds of beer on tap at all times and when imbibing I rarely drink the same beer more that once in a session. Right now I have two lagers and a Robust Porter on tap, I really, really need to make some English stuff, it's been way too long.

[zgoda]

My father in law wants me to brew only pale lagers and golden ales. My wife wants only dark milds, porters and imperial stouts, maybe Czech style dark lager sometimes. Fortunately my daughter is only 9 so I don't have to brew anything to suit her taste!
I have too much weird brewing ideas to think of while brewing another house ale for my family.

[BitterTed]

Like seymour I don't have a "go to" recipe, but I almost always have a variation of Bitter and IPA on tap.

[Normski]

I like to have 3 kegs available to drink.
But I always have a Guinness in one of them. 70/20/10 Target to about 45ebu.
Simple but magnificent brew.
Norm

[seymour]

...But I always have a Guinness in one of them. 70/20/10...

I assume that's pale malt/flaked barley/roasted barley?

[Manx Guy]

Mine is either a Kolsch 90% Pilsner 5% Vienna 5% Wheat to OG 1048 with Tett to 25-30 IBU

OR my own 'Golden' ale which is MO Pale Malt 90% UK Carmalt5% Wheat 5% to 1044 OG
Bittered with Challenger to 30 IBU with 10 IBU of Aurora at ten mins thn dry hopped with Styrians

Both simple, Pale and hoppy

I plan to formulate my own Mary Jane type beer, but as it is a Manx version it will be Voirrey Jinn

Cheers!

Guy

[Rookie]

My father in law wants me to brew only pale lagers and golden ales. My wife wants only dark milds, porters and imperial stouts, maybe Czech style dark lager sometimes. Fortunately my daughter is only 9 so I don't have to brew anything to suit her taste!
I have too much weird brewing ideas to think of while brewing another house ale for my family.

This is a no brainer: brew a lot of dark milds, porters. and imperial stouts. Once a year brew a dark lager.

[john_drummer]

I have three go-to recipes and possibly a fourth - next weekend I'm brewing an American Amber at my LHBS as a BIAB demo, if it turns out nice I'll do it again.

[super_simian]

Pale and hoppy, no crystal. 1.042 OG. 64% Pale malt, 24% Vienna, 8% Wheat or Rye malt, 4% unmalted Wheat, Rye or Barley. 30 IBU bittering, 1g per litre flame out, 2g per litre dry hop. Various yeasts. Mixing it up. Best so far? Wheat malt, unmalted Rye, Cluster bittering, homegrown Chinook for aroma and dry hop, 1332 Northwest Ale yeast. So damn good. Peppery and hoppy and medium dry.

[zgoda]

Super_simian, that's what I'd like to have as my house ale.

[seymour]

Super_simian, that's what I'd like to have as my house ale.

+1, I even took the liberty of reposting it here!

[super_simian]

Super_simian, that's what I'd like to have as my house ale.

+1, I even took the liberty of reposting it here!

Awww, shucks, it ain't THAT good...