So what's up with all these recipes that call for X number of days in the primary, Y number of days in a secondary, then bottle and ready to drink Z number of days later? Why not give some easy guidelines to follow that allow the yeast to do its job and produce better beer?
I followed those instructions for a while (until I found HBT), and my beer has improved dramatically! So even if I use a recipe that calls for timetables, I have enough knowledge to ignore them.
I guess I'd understand the "why" of setting timetables if they actually benefited someone, but who benefits by following them? Not the brewer, because he runs the risk of producing mediocre or crappy beer. Not the maker of the kits, because if the first kit tastes like crap, he's less likely to sell more kits. Not the recipe writer, he doesn't benefit one way or the other, for the most part. So why not just write a better recipe that'll produce better beer?
Anyway, rant over. That is all.
I followed those instructions for a while (until I found HBT), and my beer has improved dramatically! So even if I use a recipe that calls for timetables, I have enough knowledge to ignore them.
I guess I'd understand the "why" of setting timetables if they actually benefited someone, but who benefits by following them? Not the brewer, because he runs the risk of producing mediocre or crappy beer. Not the maker of the kits, because if the first kit tastes like crap, he's less likely to sell more kits. Not the recipe writer, he doesn't benefit one way or the other, for the most part. So why not just write a better recipe that'll produce better beer?
Anyway, rant over. That is all.