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[Big Nake]

I've seen some homebrewers who try to make something for their wife/girlfriend and they do something like a blonde or raspberry wheat, etc. and it doesn't go over well. Then the guy makes himself a big IPA or a Trippel and the girl enjoys it. I could see someone trying Bud Light for the first time and not liking it, but then trying a well-made English Bitter, an American Amber Ale or a West Coast Lager and saying, "Now you're talking!" It just shows you that you really don't know. One of my wife's friends is not a big beer drinker so one night when she came over I assumed she'd drink wine. She knew I was a brewer and when she got here she said, "Let me try one of your stouts". I'm sure she heard the crickets chirping because I don't make stouts... but luckily another local brewer had just laid some of his homebrewed stout on me and I gave her that (telling her that I didn't make it). She enjoyed it but told me that it was really the only style of beer she likes. Go figure.

[ThroatwobblerMangrove]

I've seen some homebrewers who try to make something for their wife/girlfriend and they do something like a blonde or raspberry wheat, etc. and it doesn't go over well. Then the guy makes himself a big IPA or a Trippel and the girl enjoys it. I could see someone trying Bud Light for the first time and not liking it, but then trying a well-made English Bitter, an American Amber Ale or a West Coast Lager and saying, "Now you're talking!" It just shows you that you really don't know. One of my wife's friends is not a big beer drinker so one night when she came over I assumed she'd drink wine. She knew I was a brewer and when she got here she said, "Let me try one of your stouts". I'm sure she heard the crickets chirping because I don't make stouts... but luckily another local brewer had just laid some of his homebrewed stout on me and I gave her that (telling her that I didn't make it). She enjoyed it but told me that it was really the only style of beer she likes. Go figure.

The only beer my MIL has ever liked was one of my oatmeal stouts. I can't figure out what she liked though b/c she seemingly hasn't liked any other stouts (or any beer for that matter) I have made. The problem is I don't think I could easily recreate this recipe to figure it out b/c it was during my extract days.

[zymot]

The only beer my MIL has ever liked was one of my oatmeal stouts. I can't figure out what she liked though b/c she seemingly hasn't liked any other stouts (or any beer for that matter) I have made. The problem is I don't think I could easily recreate this recipe to figure it out b/c it was during my extract days.

If your have any brewing software, plug in the extract recipe. The make your best guess with an all grain recipe. Tweak the all grain until the specs match the extract recipe.Or use 2 row to create the base wort and steep the specialty grains as in the extract recipe.Or brew the original extract recipe.zymot

[ThroatwobblerMangrove]

If your have any brewing software, plug in the extract recipe. The make your best guess with an all grain recipe. Tweak the all grain until the specs match the extract recipe.Or use 2 row to create the base wort and steep the specialty grains as in the extract recipe.Or brew the original extract recipe.zymot

What's tricky is that I think it used amber malt extract

[Big Nake]

Yeah, any time I used amber or dark extract in my extract days I would have a tough time converting that to AG because you just don't know how they got that extract that color. Eventually, late in my extract brewing, I started using only light or extra-light DME knowing that I could just sub that gravity with base malt and then use the same specialty grains as the extract recipe and get close with AG.

[cavman]

What's tricky is that I think it used amber malt extract

amber extract is usually a mix of 2-row, carapils and crystal 60. if it was Breiss extract their website will tell you percentages used in the extract.https://www.brewingw...#SparklingAmber

[cavman]

amber extract is usually a mix of 2-row, carapils and crystal 60. if it was Breiss extract their website will tell you percentages used in the extract.https://www.brewingw...#SparklingAmber

I was wrong as the link shows munich not carapils.

[MolBasser]

If you had to show someone what 'Beer' is in one glass what would you fill it with?My first pick is Dusseldorf Altbier.California Common, Bohemian or Bavarian Pilsner, American Amber or a Dubbel may work well, too.Hmmm...now I want an Altbier...

SNPA.Pale Ale is beer in my opinion.Always has been.BrewBasser

[MolBasser]

Sierra Nevada Pale Ale.For me, that is the single best example of what beer is all about.

Word.BrewBasser

[ChefLamont]

To me I think the answer varies. I think it should be a beer that is local and has "heritage" in that location. After all, compared to the history of beer, it has not been long at all that you could get anything but the "local" beer unless you were maybe a soldier or hugely famous and important. So, it is a very local or at best regional answer depending on where you are. Having said that, I am not sure what it would be for here (Atlanta). We dont have much of a beer heritage, so I might have to go with the broader APA.

[ThroatwobblerMangrove]