Any suggestions for a summer ale?

[scottb]

I am thinking about brewing a beer for a music festival this summer (High Sierra Music Festival). It’s going to be in the mountains and it will be hot all day. I was thinking about a pale ale that is refreshing and that won’t have a bunch of residual sugars (to try and keep the hangovers to a minimum). The hops I have on hand are Cascade, Simcoe, Palisade, Glacier, Amarillo, and Centennial. Anyone have any suggestions for an extract recipe (w/ steeped grains)? Thanks!

[Petedadink]

light blond ales are alwase a crowd pleaser.

[bleachcola]

Saison for the win. Pick up a copy of Palmer and Zainasheff's Brewing Classic Styles.

[HopRunner]

Two Words - Sour Beer

As in Flanders Red or Oud Bruin or the chick friendly Berliner Weisse all are killer for summer, or winter or spring or fall.....

[Bellmer]

With that lineup of hops, and wanting to please a lot of people, I'd say go with a restrained pale ale/blonde ale. As much as us craft brew lovers like our hops, most people don't unfortunately (we'll convert them eventually!).

[Fritz Eye]

How about a Gumball Head clone?
A nice wheat beer featuring WLP001 and Amarillo Hops.
You can probably find it on www.stoutguy.com

A quick and easy brew that goes down nice!

[Mylo]

Nah, fuck that.... Make Bugeater's Rye Cream Ale! Everybody loves this beer. Mine second attempt was even better than my first. So much so that I had to enter it in NHC. The rye, extra hops, and elevated OG pushes it out of the Cream Ale category - so I had to enter it in Cat 23. I gave the nod to Boog in the name - "Boog it 2 Me".


Mylo

[TapItGood]

2 lbs Light LME begining boil
6 lbs Light DME heat this with about a quart of distilled water in seperate pot and add at 15 mins left in boil.

1 lb Belgian Pale Malt
1/4 lb all the following
Honey Malt
British Crisp
Carapils
40 L

1 oz Centenial @ 60
.33 oz Simcoe/Cascade/Amarillo @ 20 & Flame out
Dry hop .5 oz Simcoe/Cascade/Amarillo 1 week into fermentation
Dry Hop Keg .25 oz Simcoe/Cascade/Amarillo

starter of WLP001