BreezyBrew
IPA is my spirit animal
Hilarious the book is called "Brewing Without Failures" I can taste the irony 
Funny things you've overheard about beer
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BreezyBrew
IPA is my spirit animal
You know what would make that recipe really good? Half a gallon of whole milk... for a milk stout.
So, is that a dragon in the kitchen, or are you just happy to see music?
BreezyBrew
IPA is my spirit animal
It's like the USB. It takes two hands and multiple tries.
Hmmmm, looks like I was wrong. The 8 hour mash time isn't a typo in Home Brewing Without Failures by H. E. Bravery. It's the standard advice in all of the grain recipes.
Let's flip through and try to find some more groaners...
He's saying that the water that's used for mashing is called "brewery liquor" even though it's just water and is quite insistent about that. I've never heard of that term.
He says that you have to boil the wort after mashing (which takes 6-8 hours) to break down the enzymes or the enzymes would break down ALL of the sugars in the malt so that you'd have to malt flavor left, just hops, alcohol and water.
"The amount of sugar given in the recipes make for good strong beers, that is, beers with a comfortable percentage of alcohol. You can make them weaker or stronger as you wish by altering the amount of sugar accordingly."
By sugar he means white table sugar, a lot of his recipes include pounds and pound of it.
He's saying that using your own malt and hops is more expensive than buying extract which seems strange but maybe things were different in 1965.
Hmmm, now recommendations of using a fish tank immersion heater to keep the wort at the right temperature for all eight hours of the mashing.
Let's flip through and try to find some more groaners...
He's saying that the water that's used for mashing is called "brewery liquor" even though it's just water and is quite insistent about that. I've never heard of that term.
He says that you have to boil the wort after mashing (which takes 6-8 hours) to break down the enzymes or the enzymes would break down ALL of the sugars in the malt so that you'd have to malt flavor left, just hops, alcohol and water.
"The amount of sugar given in the recipes make for good strong beers, that is, beers with a comfortable percentage of alcohol. You can make them weaker or stronger as you wish by altering the amount of sugar accordingly."
By sugar he means white table sugar, a lot of his recipes include pounds and pound of it.
He's saying that using your own malt and hops is more expensive than buying extract which seems strange but maybe things were different in 1965.
Hmmm, now recommendations of using a fish tank immersion heater to keep the wort at the right temperature for all eight hours of the mashing.
I just heard a waitress at the next table over tell her customers that Dechutes Fresh Squeezed IPA is actually made with fresh squeezed hops... :facepalm:
And yet the majority of the all grain Brewers here have a HLT (Hot Liquor Tank) as part of their setup. No idea why it's called liquor, but it's pretty widespread
hunter_le five
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Ever heard of a "hot liquor tank" (HLT)? That's actually correct.
edit: Zinc beat me to it. Nice "well actually".
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friend: "So, I hear you started brewing your own beer?"
me: "Yeah, been reading up on it for a long time and started really getting into it now that I have some equipment. I've done 2 batches so far."
friend: "Cool. So...what kinda beers did you put into your beers?"
me: "uhhhh...I made a pale ale and a hefeweizen, that's a wheat beer."
friend: "yeah, yeah, but I mean what kinds did you put into them?"
me: "uhhhh...the hops I used were centennial and cascade for the....wait....what?"
friend: "Yeah I now this guy that makes his own beer too, he usually mixes Bud and Molson Ex so it has more taste. So what kinds did you put in it?''
me: ''Uhhhhhh.......uhhhhhhhh......made them straight from grain, with hops and yeast and stuff.''
friend: '' Hahahah...look at this guy, straight from the grain...lol. look at this Bud I'm holding, you see any grain in there? ...straight from the grain...dude you are too funny''
me: "Yeah, been reading up on it for a long time and started really getting into it now that I have some equipment. I've done 2 batches so far."
friend: "Cool. So...what kinda beers did you put into your beers?"
me: "uhhhh...I made a pale ale and a hefeweizen, that's a wheat beer."
friend: "yeah, yeah, but I mean what kinds did you put into them?"
me: "uhhhh...the hops I used were centennial and cascade for the....wait....what?"
friend: "Yeah I now this guy that makes his own beer too, he usually mixes Bud and Molson Ex so it has more taste. So what kinds did you put in it?''
me: ''Uhhhhhh.......uhhhhhhhh......made them straight from grain, with hops and yeast and stuff.''
friend: '' Hahahah...look at this guy, straight from the grain...lol. look at this Bud I'm holding, you see any grain in there? ...straight from the grain...dude you are too funny''
Wow that's great!
hunter_le five
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Sounds like those guys that "make moonshine" by adding flavorings to everclear they bought from the liquor store.
Jayship
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Lol. He told me his friend even had it so it comes right out of a tap in the fridge in his basement. Kinda get the feeling his friend is an actual homebrewer with a wicked sense of humor.
Black Island Brewer
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My head just assploded.
Ha! Converting the masses!
Um, you misspelled perverting.
No way! Homebrewing is natural, BMC is perverted!.
Jmarsh544
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A stewardess on a recent flight I was on was pouring a red from a north west brewery and the glass ended up being half foam. She looked confused and said "all that foam is because the beer has so many hops in it". Hmmm, I think it's cause you poured it into the glass too quickly after shaking the bottle around while trying to open it...
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One of the coworkers I work closely with regularly, whose roommate has a better brewing system than I, said the other day, "We brewed a light lager over the weekend." Trying to figure out what it was, I threw out Pilsner, Helles, possibly even Kolsch as options. He had to text his buddy to ask. The answer came back: "Saison". I don't know who was less informed...
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My wife's great uncle is known for making awesome BBQ sauce. He gave my FIL the recipe a year or two ago.
You start with Kraft BBQ Sauce, and add
Wait . . . your BBQ sauce recipe uses BBQ sauce as an ingredient?
Yes. So you add the chipotle and
That's when you pimp-slap them for wasting your time...
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Mom's chicken enchiladas was chicken tortilla and cream of the chicken or cream of mushroom soup can spread over. I never could eat it but every one in my family thought it was great. On a more related topics my coworkers heard that my latest beer is ready. Next thing I hear is I will bring your bottle tomorrow. Because they know if they want to try it they have to have returned the previous bottle or they won't get another. With the exception of my boss, he gave me a raise for no other reason than my family's hard times.
The girl who was training me for my new position was saying she liked coors because she is from Colorado. I commented that figured she would be a craft drinker being from Colorado and she didn't even know what that was
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My wife's great uncle is known for making awesome BBQ sauce. He gave my FIL the recipe a year or two ago.
You start with Kraft BBQ Sauce, and add
Wait . . . your BBQ sauce recipe uses BBQ sauce as an ingredient?
Yes. So you add the chipotle and
One of my brothers had a father-in-law who was justly renowned for his marinade/BBQ sauce. He used to send his sister in the Midwest a gallon of it every year, but he never gave her the recipe.
I was having coffee with him one morning as he went thru his mail, and he passed me a letter from the sister. She was pretty blunt: he was old and sick and wasn't going to live much longer, and she wanted that recipe before he died. He laughed and said, "if I give her the recipe, I'll die a lot sooner. Because she's a hardcore religious teetotaller, and my marinade is beer-based."
Add: I see nothing wrong with using a commercial sauce as the base for one's own version. If the makers have combined and cooked a good set of base ingredients, why reinvent the wheel? Let them do the grunt work, then add the tweaks that make the recipe yours.
BrewinBromanite
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I guess even most of my favorite homemade BBQ sauce recipes include things like ketchup, yellow mustard, soy sauce, worcestershire, etc. All of those are essentially pre-made base ingredients, although it feels more original than starting with another straight up BBQ sauce.
Lol. I had a bunch of family over a couple years ago, and had some partial bottles of Stubbs, sweet baby rays, and bulls eye. Just mixed them all together. Everyone loved it on a bunch of grilled chicken, but couldn't figure out what it was.
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Lol. I had a bunch of family over a couple years ago, and had some partial bottles of Stubbs, sweet baby rays, and bulls eye. Just mixed them all together. Everyone loved it on a bunch of grilled chicken, but couldn't figure out what it was.
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LlNickTheGreat;6822479]My wife's great uncle is known for making awesome BBQ sauce. He gave my FIL the recipe a year or two ago.
You start with Kraft BBQ Sauce, and add
Wait . . . your BBQ sauce recipe uses BBQ sauce as an ingredient?
Yes. So you add the chipotle and
One of my brothers had a father-in-law who was justly renowned for his marinade/BBQ sauce. He used to send his sister in the Midwest a gallon of it every year, but he never gave her the recipe.
I was having coffee with him one morning as he went thru his mail, and he passed me a letter from the sister. She was pretty blunt: he was old and sick and wasn't going to live much longer, and she wanted that recipe before he died. He laughed and said, "if I give her the recipe, I'll die a lot sooner. Because she's a hardcore religious teetotaller, and my marinade is beer-based."
Add: I see nothing wrong with using a commercial sauce as the base for one's own version. If the makers have combined and cooked a good set of base ingredients, why reinvent the wheel? Let them do the grunt work, then add the tweaks that make the recipe yours.[/QUOTE]
Some people even object to ketchup as a base, but why add that to the process?
It's like with extract vs all grain beer.
xandersaml
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Some people even object to ketchup as a base, but why add that to the process?
It's like with extract vs all grain beer.[/QUOTE]
Maybe, but then you're tweaking and not creating
Ketchup as an ingredient that becomes bbq sauce is different than bbq sauce which becomes bbq sauce.
If you pour a BMC and add hops did you brew a beer? Just sayin'...
And a funny thing about beer - I know a guy who actually adds Frank's Wing Sauce to his BMCand thinks he created a beer.
Uh...correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that what we're already doing? I can see where non-brewers might like that one. But then, they could just by a craft beer with those flavors already in it. And I almost always use 'chup as a base for bbq sauces. Except for my Italian-style one.
I can see where non-brewers might like that one. But then, they could just by a craft beer with those flavors already in it. And I almost always use 'chup as a base for bbq sauces. Except for my Italian-style one.
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I've a brother that "doesn't like ales", but frequently drinks stouts, porters, Belgian beers, hefes... I think he just doesn't like APAs and IPAs, but doesn't fully understand what "ale" means.
1977Brewer
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My dad is the same way without the "anything that isn't made by Coors or Miller". The man drinks Keystone. I love him, but he drinks Keystone.
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There is nothing wrong with drinking bottled water.
I don't think keystone comes in bottles
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Keep HBT weird.
That happened with a friend of mine too. He drank Miller Lite exclusively for years. A bunch of us were over at his house, and he had an 12-pack of Beast Light in bottles that his cousin had brought over. I didn't even realize they wasted glass on those kind of beers.
I have a family member who declared he did not like "ale" only lagers as he was sipping on a Brown's Cream Ale I had given him!
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Kiwi Rising is their best IMO
The comments on this article are pretty funny:
http://www.bonappetit.com/drinks/beer/article/helles-lager
http://www.bonappetit.com/drinks/beer/article/helles-lager
