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Originally Posted by Baja_Brewer
Wait, isnt the Database here available to everyone?
http://www.homebrewtalk.com/f82/
I think it is... look at the popular ones...they usually near the top of their style and have alot of views.... |
To my knowledge the database IS open to everyone.
I don't know why the OP doesn't think the recipe database of the largest most active homebrewing forum, home to many award winning brewers, and where many members have appeared on podcasts and in the pages of zymurgy and BYO,
wouldn't be good enough for a new brewer starting out to find great recipes.
Over the last year or so the database (not the recipe ingredient forum) the database has been self policed and vetted a bit to only represent recipes actually brewed and not the place where people post experiements.
One thing to do is to be selective in the recipes you brew on here...if you are around long enough, and read people's posts you get an idea of who has experience in creating recipes and who doesn't...Which recipes get brewed alot, etc....and trust the recipes by them...
When I'm looking for a recipe I start with those by people I know on here, like the Mods or some of the other brewers who help beginners because I know their brewing philosophy or level of experience, or have seen the response to their recipes..After those people I will look at the other recipes and see if the poster has updated or posted comments about their recipe, or if other people have as well..to see if anyone else has brewed it...then the next "tier" is those that look like the recipe was written AFTER it was brewed and bottled.
(once clue look to see if they put a final gravity in the recipe..if there is a question mark, or a blank, than more than likely it was put in there before being tested.)
It seems like it's getting better, the mods are police it more, as are other members, and the mods want people to report any of the recipe that look untried, and they will either notify the OP to update the recipe with tasting notes, gravites, etc, or move them back to the recipe ingredients section...so there's hope that the database can actually be the "canon" of everyone's best recipes...
If you look at my pull down..you see only two recipe in there (and in the database) yet I have posted a lot of my recipes in the Recipe/ingredients forum..at least a half dozen, maybe more...
But I feel that my brown ale, and my vuienna lager which has one an honorable mention in a large competition, are the only ones I "stand behind" right now enough to attach my name to it.
That's another thing, those who have won an award of some type usually mention show in the recipe.
So I don't know why you want to so quickly disregard a database that most of us are proud of.
where are all the good recipes???
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