Monday, August 30, 2010

First Post

posted by Jon

Welcome to all of our Knoll Street Beer Club members. Since this is the first post, we will update you on a couple of things and ask for your advice on upcoming beers.

First of all, our first beer will be brewed sometime in the next couple of weeks. We will be starting out with a seasonal favorite, a pumpkin ale. However, since we are all about amping beers up a bit, we will actually be doing an imperial pumpkin ale. More grains, more malt, more hops, more pumpkin, therefore more alcohol and flavor in the finished product. Your first six-pack will be drinkable around Reformation Day (in honor of two famous home-brewers - Martin Luther and John Calvin).

The first of your money has been spent. We made the strenuous trek to Siciliano's in GR (if you ever go to Siciliano's, don't bring a credit card. Seriously. You will spend your limit) and bought a new 5 gallon carboy. This will allow us to have 3 batches going at once.



Now it's time for your comments. We would like to know what types of beers are your favorites, and therefore, which beers we should be brewing. Please choose your top ten (or so) from this list:

American Ales
Amber/Red Ale
Barleywine
Blonde Ale
Brown Ale
Dark Wheat
Double/Imperial IPA
Double/Imperial Stout
IPA
Pale Ale
Porter
Stout
Strong Ale
Wild Ale
Black & Tan
Chile Beer
Wheat Wine
Cream Ale
Pumpkin Ale
Rye Ale

Belgian Ales
IPA
Pale Ale
Strong Ale
Dubbel
Oud Bruin
Gueuze
Lambic
Fruit Lambic
Quadrupel
Saison/Farmhouse
Trippel
Witbier

English Ales
Braggot
Bitter
Brown
ESB (Extra Special Bitter)
Milk Stout
Oatmeal Stout
Old Ale
Russian Imperial Stout
Winter Warmer


German Ales
Altbier
Weissbier
Dunkelwiezen
Hefewiezen
Kolsch

Irish Ales
Irish Stout

Scottish Ales
Scotch Ale/Wee Heavy

American Lagers
American Adjunct Lager
Steam Beer

Czech Lagers
Czech Pilsener 

German Lagers
Bock
Doppelbock
Eisbock
German Pilsner
Maibock/Helles Bock
Helles Lager
Marzen/Oktoberfest
Rauchbier
Schwarzbier
Vienna Lager

8 comments:

  1. My favorites (in order):

    Double/Imperial Stout
    Double/Imperial IPA
    IPA
    Russian Imperial Stout
    Barleywine
    Old Ale (English)
    Wheatwine
    Strong Ale
    Irish Stout
    Stout
    Trippel
    Dubbel
    Quad
    Witbier
    Wild Ale

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  2. 1 Dark American lager(Black)
    2 IPA
    3 Pale Ale
    4 Porter
    5 Oatmeal Stout
    6 Brown (English)
    7 Black IPA
    8 Coffee Stout
    9 Black and Tan
    10 Russian Imperial Stout

    Jeff Steigenga

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  3. I like most beer, but these are my favorites (in no particular order):

    Dark Wheat
    Double/Imperial IPA
    Double/Imperial Stout
    IPA
    Pale Ale
    Stout
    Strong Ale
    Wild Ale
    Chile Beer
    Pumpkin Ale
    Trippel
    ESB (Extra Special Bitter)
    Oatmeal Stout
    Russian Imperial Stout
    Scottish Ales

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  5. I fear no beer, and totally trust the club to make an excellent selection as to what we will be brewing. I love stout's (coffee, oatmeal, imperial) and anything with some color. I enjoy a good IPA and almost all wheat beers. Porter's always go down really smooth too. I am not huge on fruit in my beer because you can only have so many of those until you get sick of them. I hope this helps. KNOLL STREET BREWERY ROCKS!!!

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  6. I am not picky but here is my list:
    -any stout (that puts like 5 beers on my list right off the bat)
    -porter
    -dubbel
    -trippel
    -IPA
    -imperial stout
    -pale ale
    -brown
    -barleywine

    Ryan & Amy Aukeman

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  7. Like Kevin, I would enjoy being surprised with something new and different. Generally I like higher alcohol brews, IPA's, and doubles and triples. I do not have wheat beers high on my list, but a wheatwine looks interesting. Any experimenting with jalapenos would be fun, right?

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