I’m going to be moving in about two weeks, so I’ll have time to brew at most two beers to take with me. I’m going to bottle up the rest of what I have (APA, Maibock, Bourbon Barrel Stout, Oktoberfest, Tripel, Triple IPA), so I’ll have plenty of variety, but quantities on all of those are getting low.
So, which two beers would you most want to have with you for a long Colorado winter?
a big ol westy 12 and a lightweight (4-5%) but warm & toasty porter. can’t go wrong there. It’ll be cold, that’s for sure. and not if it happens, but when you get snowed in, you’ll want that big belgian.
You’ll get plenty of craft-brewed IPA and Ambers in CO. I’d go for the D-Bock and a Baltic Porter. You can always blend these stronger beers into lighter brews to get several more different styles. These two styles a great in cold weather (as if I know, having lived in Fl for the last 20 years).
I’d like to have an RIS or Barleywine, but I don’t think I have time at this point. It would have to be in bottles in about two weeks - definitely no time for bulk conditioning.
Ready? Nothing. Bottled? Anything I listed. Lagering the doppelbock in the bottles wouldn’t be ideal, but packaging after two weeks would be SOP for anything else.
I dunno man, I had to run the AC today…Might get some rain this weekend. 1st frost
predicted for the 9th…but we’ll see. First snow the 19th…Been too mild. You could
probably get away with late summer brews still, if you want to…
Sure enough you brew that and you’ll have to dig for 8 hours to move your car…
We say, “If you don’t like the weather, wait five minutes.”
Hit me up on your way through, we’ll chat beer and snow…