Dirty little secrets...

[Dland]

Time for my dirty little secret... my 103rd batch is fermenting now and i've never, ever, ever considered giving my beers a name.

Brewing #89 (of current brewing iteration anyway), never named mine either..

If something happens to fall into a style, that's nice, but not what I aim for, never really followed a recipe either.

 

[bracconiere]

The rest of us are just here to talk about brewing and participate in an online community of folks with a common interest.

how true, i just come here to play music match with other homebrewers....sometimes i get distracted by a recent post....

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Well this went off the rails fast.

 

[bracconiere]

Well this went off the rails fast.

lol, and i was just coming back to say i got the malt ready for batch ~#751....

edit: and to get back on topic, when i'm deculming sometimes i get lazy and don't blow the rootlets off that good...just add some dark crystal to cover it up, lol

 

[BrewnWKopperKat]

So, my question to you is, where do you skimp/cheat/ignore what some think are hard and fast rules about brewing?

I ignore the "hard and fast rule" that home brewing is either

"extract" or
"all-grain" / BIAB.​

Dirty little secret? DME and LME are just another ingredient.

 

[lowtones84]

Dirty little secret? DME and LME are just another ingredient.

True true. In reading a lot of Ron Pattinson's work, breweries used small percentages of malt extract for various reasons. Mine? I BIAB and sometimes I want to make a bigger beer than is comfortable for my mashing pot. Or sometimes I want the end beer to be a little less fermentable. Or I'm doing a weird batch size and hitting gravity spot on is just easier with a small percentage of malt extract.

 

[Jayjay1976]

Don't hate me because I'm picky.

LOL it ain't that you're picky.

 

[Bilsch]

LOL it ain't that you're picky.

Central theme in post #25 rings true. If you are pleased with what your making.. then by golly I'm happy for you. And my apologies to your delicate sensibilities.

 

[Snuffy]

I just brew cause it impresses chicks.

 

[mongoose33]

I brewed yesterday and for the first time in 2 years I used my old Bigmouth Bubbler plastic fermenter. Normally it's the Spike 10-gallon conical, but I'm going to brew a hoppy beer next weekend and want the conical to isolate that beer from o2.

I was struck by just how simple things were. I'm looking forward to cleaning that fermenter, takes maybe 10 minutes whereas it's close to an hour to clean the big one.

I'm not particularly worried about oxidation; it's my Darth Lager and hops don't play a very large role in it; hop shot for bittering, then a couple ounces of Hallertau fairly late for flavor.

I really miss the days of BIAB; beginning to end in 3.5 hours typically. If I could ever get motivated I'd try to figure out how to do electric BIAB with RIMS recirculation...