Hb Article In The Age...

[NRB]

Which one of you clowns is Simon? :huh:

 

[Back Yard Brewer]

Yes, it would have been much better if it had at least touched on issues like all grain brewing, fresh ingredients and perhaps even the real ale revival - as I think without those points it paints an inaccurate (and dated) picture of the hobby.

True, but like most things to much info can be a bad thing. It would seem gobly dook to someone wanting to dabble in brewing and may even scare them off. When I first started brewing a decade ago I did read articles in books about "mashing" but it all seemed to daunting back then. Now with sights like AHB life is a lot simpler. I was actually in my LHBS a few weeks back and there was a chap looking at getting into kegging so I put him onto AHB. What surprises me a little is why HBS don't do the same, you know put their customers onto sights like this and then get a cross section opinion.

BYB

 

[PostModern]

What surprises me a little is why HBS don't do the same, you know put their customers onto sights like this and then get a cross section opinion.

Depending on the business model of the HBS, I suppose. I know of one that is so dependent on his k+k customers and his own mastery of the kit, that he's afraid to tell his customers about the local brew club, in case they turn to the dark side. (Queue Scotty's Darth Vader post...) Given the number of people who went from kits to mashing via AHB, I think some HBS's ~should~ be afraid if they don't want to stray from their Brewcraft rep.

 

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(Queue Scotty's Darth Vader post...)

Would you care to remind us of this PoMo.

Scotty

 

[PostModern]

Would you care to remind us of this PoMo.

Scotty

This post in the last silly k+k vs AG thread.

Darth Vader: "SCCHHKKKKDDDDD, LUKE, FEEEEEELLLLLL THE FORCE LUKE, IT IS YOUR DESTINY"

Luke Skywalker: "I will never give into the Dark Side Father. Do HB shop owners who sell grain and those hop things have big knockers like the checkout chick at Woolies are on saturday when i head down and get me kit and kilo ....."

Darth Vader: "SCCHHKKKKDDDDD, LUKE, FEEL THE WARM GRAINS, SMELL THE BOIL, FEEL THE POWER OF THE DARK SIDE OF THE MASH LUKE, COME TO THE DARK SIDE LUKE .... COMMMMEEEE ... ITS EVERY KIT BREWERS DESTINY ..... FEEL THE FORCE .... SCCHHKKKKDDDDD ... THE FORCE ...."

 

[domonsura]

My God that's a thread and a half isn't it....i feel somehow enlightened and weighed down all at the same time.... :huh:

 

[AngelTearsOnMyTongue]

Oh thats great. I remember thatone.

Actually, now that i think of it, wouldnt R2D2 make a great Mash tun?

Or maybe a fermenter.

You could probably set the temp and leave him to do the rest.....even bottling.

 

[Wardhog]

I should point out, too, that I was actually embarrassed to serve that to you Wardhog - I was really down to my homebrew 'shrapnel' that day!

It was a toucan of Bavarian Lager that I made before Christmas. The gravity was a bit high so I filled one of the big Grolsch 1.5L jobbies straight out of the tap to make room in the keg for some water. It had been in the fridge since, until you came over and I had nothing else to offer!

It was pretty flat, and probably a bit oxidised, but it was beer h34r:

You shouldn't have been embarrassed. It was a thoroughly enjoyable beer, it had a good amount of malt in it. I can't remember if you'd added any extra hops, but it sure was tasty.
Not that I have much experience with such things, but it put me in mind of how I think a good English ale would be.

It's going to be what I do when stocks are running low and there's no chance of time for an AG brew.