There was a recent post questioning whether switching to all grain would overall improve the brewing of beer. As a preface, i am answering this question while drinking my latest all grain cream ale, so maybe i am biased, but without a doubt, my answer is YES!
I can absolutely attest to a SIGNIFICANT improvement of beer since making the move to AG. To quantify this statement, i submit the following: when i brewed extract (and i did for years), i did in the end have beer, but it almost always had a dinstintive "homebrew" taste to it. Also, with brutal honesty here, my HB was never betterthan something i could buy. Right now drinking this latest HB, i can say that this beer tastes 10 x better than the commercial creams i have ever had. No "HB" taste whatsoever. In fact, the taste brings me back to my younger days when we would steal my dads "Gennessee Cream Ale", but like i said, way better. This was my 3rd attempt at AG, and i knew from the first batch i was onto something. I will leave it up to the pro's here (moderators) to dissect my opinion, but here is one man's experience. Cheers my friends!!!
I can absolutely attest to a SIGNIFICANT improvement of beer since making the move to AG. To quantify this statement, i submit the following: when i brewed extract (and i did for years), i did in the end have beer, but it almost always had a dinstintive "homebrew" taste to it. Also, with brutal honesty here, my HB was never betterthan something i could buy. Right now drinking this latest HB, i can say that this beer tastes 10 x better than the commercial creams i have ever had. No "HB" taste whatsoever. In fact, the taste brings me back to my younger days when we would steal my dads "Gennessee Cream Ale", but like i said, way better. This was my 3rd attempt at AG, and i knew from the first batch i was onto something. I will leave it up to the pro's here (moderators) to dissect my opinion, but here is one man's experience. Cheers my friends!!!