This year's homebrewer of the year did it with an extract batch
Extract beer rules
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Just my opinion.
But if you compete with extract, you aren't doing the work. The mash, ph, etc was done for you. Be like entering a cooking contest after a chef cooked everything for you.
A contest should be ALL your work
But if you compete with extract, you aren't doing the work. The mash, ph, etc was done for you. Be like entering a cooking contest after a chef cooked everything for you.
A contest should be ALL your work
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Counterpoint: Do you do your own malting? Besides, that medal was many years ago...
Lol are you isolating and growing your yeasts strains up too? Relax man this is supposed to be fun
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He did start by saying it was his opinion.
The fermentable sugars, whatever they are or wherever they come from are really just a small part of the entire equation.
Fermentation control, pitch rate, handling, sanitation, packaging, etc. certainly add up to a much bigger part of the end result.
I say "Congrats" to whoever wins at that level.
Cheers,
Brian
The fermentable sugars, whatever they are or wherever they come from are really just a small part of the entire equation.
Fermentation control, pitch rate, handling, sanitation, packaging, etc. certainly add up to a much bigger part of the end result.
I say "Congrats" to whoever wins at that level.
Cheers,
Brian
And grow your own hops?
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Often.
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lol, I get what you are saying. but even a chef doesnt raise thier owns cows.
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All in jest, my friend. Extract beer can be as good as all-grain and that's what matters. As a judge, we don't know what method the brewer used.
Maybe not most, but some do...
When you go do you get to pick out the cow you want like they used to do with lobsters?
There was an episode of the Simpsons where that was the case. And Saturday Night Live did a skit similar, but it was mocking Wilson's House of Suede and Leather in Paramus, NJ. For a jacket, "you pick the cow, stun it, skin it, tan it and cut it, we do the sewing..."
It's like the best of show at the Westminster kennel club.
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Nothing wrong with that recipe.
