What kind of beer should I make today?

[Superfly]

My bro is coming for a visit in 2 1/2 weeks and I need to get a keg of homebrew together. I was thinking something for the spring. I'm an all-grain brewer, so if you have any recipes or suggestions along those lines, that'd be great!

[mac56]

1. Blonde ale or golden ale.

I know bock is the traditional spring brew, but I like a nice blonde ale as the weather starts to warm up.

[Superfly]

2. Yeah, me too...

Plus, Bock is a lager, and I don't have the time.

[JVS]

3. Koelsch is a good ale

[Superfly]

4. Didn't even think about that...

that's a damned good idea...Thanks!

[JVS]

5. Glad to help

[TXlib]

6. 2.5 weeks is rather short notice.

I'd go with a low-gravity bavarian hefeweizen with og of 1.030-1.035.

Or perhaps a low-gravity belgian wit.

I, myself, have been on a brewing rampage:

In the past couple of weeks, I have made five gallons each of:
* english bitter, dry-hopping now
* belgian dubbel
* bavarian hefeweizen
* baltic porter (but I'm using White Labs european ale yeast at ale temperatures, rather than fermenting with lager yeast at cooler temperatures)

Also, I have been starting a new 5-gallon batch of mead every month since November, and this month will be starting three:
* a high gravity tupelo honey mead (20 lbs honey in total volume 5 gallons)
* a 6-gallon batch of cyser (normal strength apple juice and 12 lbs of clover honey), which after the main fermentation, will be split into 2 3-gallon batches and each dosed with 100 oz of fruit puree (one blueberry; one raspberry)

[Superfly]

9. I have over 100 liters of mead in various stages

of fermentation stashed around my house...

If it's not mead, it's crap!!

[pagerbear]

7. Pagerbeer!

[JVS]

8. can you make a dark weissbier?

those are good, but you'd need special yeast

[x-g.o.p.er]

20. Dunkel heffeweissen!!

Best beer in the world

[regularguy]

10. Belgian. But, is 2 1/2 weeks long enough?

Beginning Brewers want to know!

[Superfly]

12. Yeah, ferment 2 weeks, then force carbonate.

No problem, mon!

[CPschem]

11. IPA- AHAP (as hoppy as possible)

[cheezus]

25. agreed. the more hops the better.

[PragMantisT]

13. Make something summery

it'll be June when it's ready

[Superfly]

14. Not making a lager...going for a quick ale...

14 days start to finish.

[PragMantisT]

27. I usually take two months for an ale and 4 for a lager

But that's just me.

[commander bunnypants]

15. Just sumthin ta git me wasted

Pull mah finger


DDQM

[tsakshaug]

16. just bottled my IPA

Ready to drink this weekend (still a bit green)

If you are looking for a quick beer- how about an Amber ale.

[frylock]

17. ipa, and drop a few extra hops in there for good measure

[bif]

18. It's drinkable in 2 1/2 weeks?

I thought it had to age a lot longer than that.

[blindpig]

19. imperial stout or

if you got the time, marzen. If you got some yeast from hell, barleywine.

[gator_in_Ontario]

21. A nice stout

would be good. Liquid bread....yum!

[puerco-bellies]

22. Oatmeal Stout

My fav's is Sam Smith's.

[SaveElmer]

23. Pumpkin Beer

Really alot better than it sounds...has a hint of spiced pumpkin...really tasty

[mouse7]

24. Pork Chop Beer

Mmmmm...

[Whitacre D_WI]

26. Make a Lambic.

Of course, you'll need a nice supply of wild yeasts. And a good long while.

Perhaps you should consider moving to Lembeek. I hear everyone has a brewery over there.

And there ain't nothin' in the world better than a good, old Geueze.

[LWolf]

28. A porter.

2nd choice: oatmeal stout

[woofless]

29. My choice too

or a nice dark brown ale.

[JVS]

30. Ok, what did you make? Now that the day is past, let us in on it.