This month’s Fermentation Friday is hosted by Panhandle beer snob and redneck brewery. The topic?
“What, in the opinion of others, is the best beer you have ever made and why?”
I posed this question on my blog and had one response. I was fairly certain the answer was going to be the Alberta Arts Pale Ale; a fairly simple pale with Simcoe hops that I brewed as a combination motivation and thank you for friends and family who helped us move on what turned out to be the hottest day of the year (in May!). It had popular acclaim among family members, who typically don’t go for the hoppy beers, but it had enough crispness, and enough being a cool liquid going for it that it won me the most compliments from imbibers.
As Joe pointed out, his favorite was probably the beer I brewed for his wedding. I’ve brewed for several weddings now and get similar comments, so that’s always a good way to score points with friends. Plus, there’s so much latent emotion that getting your beer hooked up with the revelry never hurts. Heck, now that I think of it, one of the last weddings I took beer to left me with lots of compliments on the beer I made from complete strangers. I didn’t take count though, so I can’t definitively say which was my most popular beer.
I don’t know I still am a big fan of the ESB you brewed a for one of our camping trips to Staircase. I never had the Alberta Arts Pale Ale, maybe you need to brew another batch
We’ve done a few wedding beers and they’re always big hits… especially if you name them something unique to the couple getting married. I had a friend with the last name Chern. We named his beer the Ball & Chern Stout. Still one of my favorite names.