I'll gladly slam extract brewers; but not for taste. Yes, some good extract beers can be made. But your not a true brewer if you brew extract. It's simply a cheating method. People have been brewing for thousands of years with grain, not extract. So the next thing thats going to happen is they will start selling large sealed containers of wort. And all you will have to do is add it to your sanitized fermenter and pitch the yeast. ha ha maybe this wont happen, but you get the point.
Brewing with extract is cheating. People will deny it, but I will only agree with them that extract can produce a great beer too.
I'll gladly slam extract brewers; but not for taste. Yes, some good extract beers can be made. But your not a true brewer if you brew extract. It's simply a cheating method. People have been brewing for thousands of years with grain, not extract. So the next thing thats going to happen is they will start selling large sealed containers of wort. And all you will have to do is add it to your sanitized fermenter and pitch the yeast. ha ha maybe this wont happen, but you get the point.
Brewing with extract is cheating. People will deny it, but I will only agree with them that extract can produce a great beer too.
I will say that I think it's "cheating" only as much as using purchased chicken stock is cheating in cooking.
That's all that's being done with extract- purchasing malt that has already been converted. Everything else- technique, recipe forumulation temperature control, specialty grains, yeast propagation, involves the same exact skills as any other brewer.
If you don't grow, malt, kiln, and roast your own grain, are you cheating as well? To say that using extract instead of mashing the grain is a very ignorant statement. Mashing is the easiest part of the brewday.
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