So before I got this app on my phone I used another brewing forum called beer advocate I'm a newer brewer but I've really fallen in love with it and I've read 4 books about it (getting my fifth in the mail) in order to get the information I need to make my own recipes intelligently.
Anyway I decided all the reading in the world won't give me experience so I thought that by joining a forum I could learn from other people's mistakes and get some helpful answers to my questions, but instead all I got with beer advocate was a bunch of people with virtually no experience whatsoever asking about how to add all kinds of weird **** to their beer, I mean I actually had to explain what star-san was to some of these people. And they were annoying as **** too whenever I made a comment somebody who just wanted to argue would try to nullify my point with faulty logic.
For example one guy had to turn the ac off in his apartment for a week and was worried about his carboy getting too hot so he put it in a bathtub and wrapped a towel around the top and had a hose going to the sink on a steady drip, so I replied "why don't you just fill the bathtub with water?" And some jackwad replied to my comment and said the towel Idea was better because it was a smaller surface area so they're would be less evaporation. And I'm like that makes absolutely no sense, do you have any idea how long it would take an entire bathtub to evaporate?
Another example is when somebody who has never made beer before, never even read a book on it wanted to make beer with birch syrup and 25% malt extract and I tried to explain to this guy that birch syrup is probably 100% fermentable and would most likely all get turned into alcohol and would loose a lot of the birch flavor during fermentation so I told him he should use it as an adjunct and as a priming sugar and this was the response I got "it's the sugars in the syrup that are 100% fermentable not the compounds that make the flavor"
And somebody else responded "exactly! That's the same misunderstanding people have with honey." I wanted to shout at them and be like, first of all, No ****, and secondly Your completely missing the point.
So after a while I was just getting sick of stupid comments and people posting ridiculous things like and I am not making this up:
Ketchup in Beer?
When to add Peppers to Beer? (Yes hot ones)
Whisky in beer?
Hard Root Beer?
So I was about ready to never come back to beer advocate so I sarcastically posted "do babies ferment?" And then got a message that I'd been banned for trolling.
I just want to say, experimenting is fine, if you want to try a new adjunct that's fine, but I absolutely cannot fathom why people want to add things to beer to make it not beer anymore and still call it beer. There's a reason why Hops and Barley have been the two main ingredients for centuries I just don't get it you have close to 100 kinds of grains to choose from and probably around 300 varieties of hops why not use that to make your beer unique and use other ingredients to accentuate hop flavors not cover them up I just don't understand why you would want a beer to taste like ketchup or whisky or chile peppers or root beer, even extensively fruity beers I don't approve of. My philosophy is that thinking outside the box is easy but thinking of things that haven't been thought of inside the box is much more of a challenge and will often produce better results.
Lastly Id like to say this site has been very pleasant and the mobile app is much, much more user friendly.
Anyway I decided all the reading in the world won't give me experience so I thought that by joining a forum I could learn from other people's mistakes and get some helpful answers to my questions, but instead all I got with beer advocate was a bunch of people with virtually no experience whatsoever asking about how to add all kinds of weird **** to their beer, I mean I actually had to explain what star-san was to some of these people. And they were annoying as **** too whenever I made a comment somebody who just wanted to argue would try to nullify my point with faulty logic.
For example one guy had to turn the ac off in his apartment for a week and was worried about his carboy getting too hot so he put it in a bathtub and wrapped a towel around the top and had a hose going to the sink on a steady drip, so I replied "why don't you just fill the bathtub with water?" And some jackwad replied to my comment and said the towel Idea was better because it was a smaller surface area so they're would be less evaporation. And I'm like that makes absolutely no sense, do you have any idea how long it would take an entire bathtub to evaporate?
Another example is when somebody who has never made beer before, never even read a book on it wanted to make beer with birch syrup and 25% malt extract and I tried to explain to this guy that birch syrup is probably 100% fermentable and would most likely all get turned into alcohol and would loose a lot of the birch flavor during fermentation so I told him he should use it as an adjunct and as a priming sugar and this was the response I got "it's the sugars in the syrup that are 100% fermentable not the compounds that make the flavor"
And somebody else responded "exactly! That's the same misunderstanding people have with honey." I wanted to shout at them and be like, first of all, No ****, and secondly Your completely missing the point.
So after a while I was just getting sick of stupid comments and people posting ridiculous things like and I am not making this up:
Ketchup in Beer?
When to add Peppers to Beer? (Yes hot ones)
Whisky in beer?
Hard Root Beer?
So I was about ready to never come back to beer advocate so I sarcastically posted "do babies ferment?" And then got a message that I'd been banned for trolling.
I just want to say, experimenting is fine, if you want to try a new adjunct that's fine, but I absolutely cannot fathom why people want to add things to beer to make it not beer anymore and still call it beer. There's a reason why Hops and Barley have been the two main ingredients for centuries I just don't get it you have close to 100 kinds of grains to choose from and probably around 300 varieties of hops why not use that to make your beer unique and use other ingredients to accentuate hop flavors not cover them up I just don't understand why you would want a beer to taste like ketchup or whisky or chile peppers or root beer, even extensively fruity beers I don't approve of. My philosophy is that thinking outside the box is easy but thinking of things that haven't been thought of inside the box is much more of a challenge and will often produce better results.
Lastly Id like to say this site has been very pleasant and the mobile app is much, much more user friendly.
But, I didn't call it beer either.
