Grinder12000
Well-Known Member
I had been invited to join in a Homebrew festival and since I did not know of the event I felt I should check it out first.
So me and a friend of mine went to said festival this weekend and we took our critical taste buds and notebooks to unofficially judge beer. The goal was to just increase our knowledge and awareness of beer.
Once we were done and pretty well toasted (no 2 oz. servings HERE)!! we were talking about the brews the good and the bad and I had been asking every so often the techniques, seemed 50/50 between mini mash and AG.
SO I got up out of my chair (no easy task at that point) and with notebook asked each of the brewers their technique.
WELL - the brews that got the highest ratings were the partial mashers and NOT the All grain people.
Thinking about this we all know that All Grain IS better then Partial mash IF the brewer is skilled.
I feel many All Grain brewers (this is ONLY my personal experience) make worse beer then Mini mashers because All Grain is harder. They do not have the experience. They do 3 or 4 mini mashes and say I want to make GOOD beer and move to AG before they are ready.
it's then the technique - it's the brewer.
I've gotten into the bad habit of when someone says they are an all grain brewer I have been lowering my expectations on what I'm about to drink.
So me and a friend of mine went to said festival this weekend and we took our critical taste buds and notebooks to unofficially judge beer. The goal was to just increase our knowledge and awareness of beer.
Once we were done and pretty well toasted (no 2 oz. servings HERE)!! we were talking about the brews the good and the bad and I had been asking every so often the techniques, seemed 50/50 between mini mash and AG.
SO I got up out of my chair (no easy task at that point) and with notebook asked each of the brewers their technique.
WELL - the brews that got the highest ratings were the partial mashers and NOT the All grain people.
Thinking about this we all know that All Grain IS better then Partial mash IF the brewer is skilled.
I feel many All Grain brewers (this is ONLY my personal experience) make worse beer then Mini mashers because All Grain is harder. They do not have the experience. They do 3 or 4 mini mashes and say I want to make GOOD beer and move to AG before they are ready.
it's then the technique - it's the brewer.
I've gotten into the bad habit of when someone says they are an all grain brewer I have been lowering my expectations on what I'm about to drink.