How many beers have you made from Brewing Classic Styles?

[andy77]

Zombie thread!

Mine is bigger than some, smaller than others.

IPA x 4
Cream ale. x 2
Belgian Golden Strong Ale x 2
Duppel
Saison
Blonde Ale x 2
Northern English Brown
American Brown
American Pale Ale x 2
Belgian Blonde






...my list, I mean.

[Lucky]

Amber - 5 gallons "by the book", 5 gallons oaked
APA - 10 gallons "by the book"

IIPA up next.

With each recipe I make tasting notes and what to change the next time I brew it.

[brewinhard]

My turn! Please keep in mind I am attempting to brew all the recipes as kind of a learning experience before I take the BJCP exams.


American Amber
West Coast Blaster
American Brown
American IPA (2x- now I brew the Green Flash...luv it)
American Pale Ale (2x)
Belgian Pale Ale
Blonde Ale (4x)
Dunkelweizen
ESB
Irish Red (3x)
Mild
Northern English Brown
Smoked Porter
Scottish 80 (3x)
Southern English Brown (2x)
Special Bitter (2x)
Standard Bitter (2x)
American Barleywine (but it came out more like an English one...?)
American Stout
Belgian Dubbel
Belgian Specialty (orval - 2x, now I use my own recipe)
Belgian Tripel (3x) - awesome recipe!
Cali Common
Christmas Beer
Cream Ale
Duss. Alt (2x)
Foreign Extra Stour
Apricot wheat
Kolsch
Saison (3x, plus Super Saison)
Weizenbock (don't use as much dark wheat as he calls for!)
Witbier (3x)
Baltic Porter
Berliner Weisse (do a sour mash if you want it to actually be sour)
Bohemian Pils
Dry stout
Flanders Brown
Flanders Red
Lambic
German Pils
Maibock
Dunkel
Munich Helles
Oktoberfest
bock
Vienna Lager

Having said all that and brewed a lot, I now realize that JZ's recipes are awesome basic recipes to zero in on a style. To win in comps, it takes a little special something extra to make your beer stand out from the rest.

[TimmyR]

My turn! Please keep in mind I am attempting to brew all the recipes as kind of a learning experience before I take the BJCP exams.

Great idea....awesome you have the time to brew that much.

[brewinhard]

I credit the wife for that one mostly...and of course some "sick days" from work every now and then come into play....

[kal_ale]

I've made the Mild, Ordinary Bitter, Apricot Wheat, American Wheat, Brown Porter, Berliner Weisse, American Brown 1,
Scottish 70/, Imperial Stout, and Dubbel.

[jamilz]

I've brewed all of them.

Having said all that and brewed a lot, I now realize that JZ's recipes are awesome basic recipes to zero in on a style. To win in comps, it takes a little special something extra to make your beer stand out from the rest.

I don't think that is the case. After all, those are recipes that did win in competition and plenty of people seem to be winning with them currently. We shouldn't be going down that slippery slope of making beers bigger and more hoppy just trying to win. Excellent brewing practices with any decent recipe should produce a win. Poor brewing practices with the best recipe in the world will fail to place.

[brewinhard]

I guess what I am saying is that if a lot of people that enter the same comp are brewing those recipes (and I bet many are) than judges are tasting a lot of similar beer entries. Obviously good brewing practice comes into play, but if the recipe is just a little different from the rest it may help it to stand out more. Just my 2 cents (which really aint worth too much...)