Since I have been brewing my immediate family and close friends have all started to appreciate craft beer more because I have helped ease them into it. While some still prefer their lite lagers, some now prefer good craft beers. My dad who has only ever liked Coors and Budweiser, not regularly chooses Brooklyn Brown Ale or Dos Equis. I highly doubt however if I handed him a Belgian Tripel or Barleywine he would enjoy it because he and my other family members prefer simpler beers. For me the point of brewing isn’t just to brew a beer that I like or other craft beer lover can enjoy. I want to brew beer to show people that beer can be more than a bland lite beer and help them discover the awesomeness of the craft beer world.
That’s a great attitude. In that case the brown ale sounds like a nice “gateway beer”. Maybe for aging bump up the gravity just a bit, maybe 1.050 and the hops to match. My gateway beer growing up was Bass ale. I started drinking it when I was old enough to get in bars and wanted to try something different. It was my go to for awhile in the late eighties/early nineties until craft beer started becoming available. So maybe an English IPA, that’s something with flavor but not too challenging.
Thank you. Like I said in an earlier post, be anal about cleaning and sanitation.
I also recently finished the last of a Tap-A-Draft brown bottle filled with maibock that had been in the T-A-D bottle for over seven months. It lost most of it’s carbonation, but still tasted very good. Luckily I still have a couple of bottles left from the part that didn’t go into the T-A-D.