Beer nirvana

[Bluezephyr]

Has anybody achieved this? I suppose it's all in the taste buds of the beholder what the perfect pint tastes like.
Or is there a beer that you can recommend which is near as damn it as good as it gets?

For beer kit number 2 I shall be making some Nelsons revenge, if its half as good as the shop bought NR I have on the go I will be very happy.

What's your favourite?

 

[calumscott]

Kits?

For me I'd say Muntons Midas Touch, dry hopped for 14 days with East Kent Goldings. As good nearly anything I've been served in a pub.

AG - quite a few as it goes... But that's probably just because I made them myself...

 

[Bluezephyr]

Kit, on tap or shop bought

 

[calumscott]

Shop bought: Butt's Barbus Barbus. The most well rounded, perfectly executed, easy drinking beer you could ever buy.

 

[Duxuk]

Having loved Oakhams Citra in bottles I have brewed a few times with Citra and think I got pretty close to perfection with this.

Citra 2.
A 15 litre brew. I used a BIAB method.

3kg Maris Otter
300g wheat malt
200g crushed crystal

68C mash for 90 minutes.

Hops
60 minutes 20g Northern brewer @ 9% AA
15 minutes 20g Citra @ 14.8% AA + 1 teaspoon Irish Moss
Flameout and wait to cool to 90C 30g Citra

Gervin GV12 (Nottingham) yeast

15g Citra dry hop @ 10 days

OG was 1051

I have described it in my notebook as "sharp, zesty and intense"
I only have 5 bottles left

 

[Sandimas]

That's the beauty of this hobby, you find your favourite, then do a few more brews, then find another favourite....

I'm just sampling Brew No.37 a Bavarian Weisbier and OMG is it good, a BrewUK Extract kit:
http://www.brewuk.co.uk/store/beerkits/ ... wiess.html

But I'm sure in a while I'll find a new favourite: like Duxuk I love Oakhams Citra and have a brew nearly ready that I'm hoping will be close.