I'm into my 4th year of all grain brewing, and I'm constantly thirsting for more advanced homebrewing knowledge. Even now that I'm brewing 10 gallon batches and splitting them, I get frustrated because it still takes so much time to compare the finished products.
I want to understand for instance, the flavors of hops in isolation, or what hops taste like in different timing additions. Obviously this would take me a gajillion years to brew enough examples. Same thing with malt and specialty grains. The conventional homebrewing texts say, "Brew some SMASH beers!" While there's a ton of value in that, how long would it take me to get through only a few examples when I brew biweekly? There's got to be some distilled advanced knowledge out there that states things like, "At our brewery, we found that flaked barley worked better than carapils as a body/mouthfeel builder because it has x flavor contribution in side by side results..." or, "We've found that simcoe has x flavor contribution in the 30 minute addition vs. y flavor contribution in the dry hop." Can you guys recommend anything?
What about advanced brewing texts? I'm sure there's cutting edge research papers being published all the time on hops, yeast, etc. Where can I read that stuff!!?!?!?? Grrrrr.
I want to understand for instance, the flavors of hops in isolation, or what hops taste like in different timing additions. Obviously this would take me a gajillion years to brew enough examples. Same thing with malt and specialty grains. The conventional homebrewing texts say, "Brew some SMASH beers!" While there's a ton of value in that, how long would it take me to get through only a few examples when I brew biweekly? There's got to be some distilled advanced knowledge out there that states things like, "At our brewery, we found that flaked barley worked better than carapils as a body/mouthfeel builder because it has x flavor contribution in side by side results..." or, "We've found that simcoe has x flavor contribution in the 30 minute addition vs. y flavor contribution in the dry hop." Can you guys recommend anything?
What about advanced brewing texts? I'm sure there's cutting edge research papers being published all the time on hops, yeast, etc. Where can I read that stuff!!?!?!?? Grrrrr.