Do you prefer brewing existing recipes or building your own?

AnOldUR said:

don't think I've ever brewed a recipe line for line from an existing recipe. May be a sickness, but I can't help but to F with it. Even when I'm rebrewing one of my own beers.

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JLem said:

This is me too. "Wow, this beer I just brewed came out fantastic!! Next time I brew it I should change the recipe!" Definitely an illness.

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Yep. What trips me up is when I change multiple things at once... my most recent batch of bitter uses different yeast, has a little bit of caramel malt, and biscuit instead of victory. Some aspects are better, some are worse. And it might still just need more time to mature.

This hobby will keep me busy for the rest of time.

Trail said:

Yep. What trips me up is when I change multiple things at once... my most recent batch of bitter uses different yeast, has a little bit of caramel malt, and biscuit instead of victory. Some aspects are better, some are worse. And it might still just need more time to mature.

This hobby will keep me busy for the rest of time.

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When experimenting, always change one variable at a time

We have been brewing for almost 2 years now and we tend to take a collection of recipes in a style and compare them to one another as a starting point... and then tweak it to be our own... Same with most cooking recipes too.. Its just the way I roll

Even when I copy a existing recipe I will usually change it a little to taylor it to my own taste.