holidayinflorida
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You know the guy, you may be that guy. I am that guy. The guy who uses an extract kit (and a no-boil one at that, haha). The guy who may add a few extra hops or a grain bag to the boiling water before he adds the extract, but thats it. The guy who dumps his wort directly into his plastic primary bucket, adds some tap water, waits (no ice baths here) then dumps his dry yeast directly into the fermenter. After a week, he bottles. No secondary fermentation, no hydrometer, nothing. So what if the beer is a little hazy (although I have found even this is usually not the case when using Safale 04).
Will the beer win any awards? No. Is it better than 90% of the beer sold in America? Definitely. Fresh is good.
This hobby is as difficult and exacting as you want to make it. If you want to put in the time and effort you can make a drink exceeding almost anything commercially available. If you want to just boil the stuff and a couple weeks later drink it on the patio on a hot summer evening, you can do that too and enjoy yourself. Lets remember, this is a beverage we all get rid of 20 minutes later anyway.
So as I sit on my patio watching the sunset, drinking my John Bull no-boil Executive Bitter, I salute you, my grain grinding, wort chilling, partial mashing brethren. Just remember, sometimes good enough really is good enough. Relax and enjoy your homebrew.
Will the beer win any awards? No. Is it better than 90% of the beer sold in America? Definitely. Fresh is good.
This hobby is as difficult and exacting as you want to make it. If you want to put in the time and effort you can make a drink exceeding almost anything commercially available. If you want to just boil the stuff and a couple weeks later drink it on the patio on a hot summer evening, you can do that too and enjoy yourself. Lets remember, this is a beverage we all get rid of 20 minutes later anyway.
So as I sit on my patio watching the sunset, drinking my John Bull no-boil Executive Bitter, I salute you, my grain grinding, wort chilling, partial mashing brethren. Just remember, sometimes good enough really is good enough. Relax and enjoy your homebrew.