Lets send CRAIGTUBE some beer!

[sha0056]

just looking at his site and looks like he's experimenting with some partial mash and reviewing some commercial beers.

quite enjoyable!

 

[unionrdr]

Whew! Lots of reading in this thread. I too searched YT for home brewing beer,& found craigtube. His videos showed me how easy it is to brew beer nowadays. Then I started subscribing to weirdbeer,peihombrewer,revolutionary brewer,steeljan,etc. I decided to buy the cooper's micro brew kit. It's one tough little FV. And I have my own "recombinant extract" theory. I understand where Craig is coming from. He's at the level he enjoys,Maybe add a lil sumpin sumpin now & then. But basically extract. I feel about the same way. Yeah,I like mixing plain DME with a cooper's can,add a couple kinds of hops,& turn it into something else. I'll even add steeping grains next.
But will I ever go AG? Probably not. There's so many different dry/liquid extracts from so many countries out there,not to mention hops,etc that I'm just having too much fun this way. I think that's what Craig feels,besides the cost savings. Combine the right ingredients even this way can produce some pretty good beer with a good process.
So we all have a process that works well for us,he has his. And I think it's great that he (&I) enjoy what we're doing. AG is not the end all of why we're all here. It's the hobby,the fun,the good beer,the fellowship we enjoy here,The knowledge...let's all try to live & let live. I wish he still excepted beer gifts. I'd like to send him some of our recombinant extract brews.

 

[unionrdr]

Hey beer baron,where exactly is this video? It's not on craigtube or your channel.?...

 

[fredthecat]

i hate craigtube, what a sad excuse for a homebrewer. felt the urge to watch him and right now his recipe mixes dry malt extract and liquid for some reason and has 21% crystal 40. it is just frustrating knowing he has been doing this for years now and is still basically using premade kits that taste like a low-medium quality macro

 

[fredthecat]

he makes sure to stir his beer after he adds the yeast, nice touch craig

 

[unionrdr]

This is the kind of thing we've been debating her. You're not a bad brewer just because you don't do what someone else thinks is a better way. However you like to brew is the best for you. This site isn't here to teach you how to go AG as soon as humanly possible,or you'll suck forever in brewing hell.
I think it has a lot to do with peer pressure on here that folks go AG as soon as they can. Like they'll be frowned upon if they don't. Then they learn very quickly that it's just got more ways to f'up your beer. Any kind of brewing takes skill & Knowledge to get a great final product.
Like I've said before,don't blame the brew,blame the brewer. Craig is a good,down to earth kind of guy. He enjoys his level of brewing,videos,etc. I identify with him myself. He's the reason I'm here now.
So if commercial micro brewers can make & sell extract beers that are really good,what's wrong with a guy like any one of us trying to do the same? Good beer is good beer,who gives a rat's a$$ how it was made?

 

[FatherJack]

i hate craigtube, what a sad excuse for a homebrewer. felt the urge to watch him and right now his recipe mixes dry malt extract and liquid for some reason and has 21% crystal 40. it is just frustrating knowing he has been doing this for years now and is still basically using premade kits that taste like a low-medium quality macro

Craig's happy with what he's doing. If you've followed him at all, or even read the posts in this thread, you would know that the reason he does it is to save costs on the ultra expensive Canadian beer.

Just because he doesn't move on with his homebrewing techniques doesn't mean he's a sad excuse.

Homebrewing is about sharing the joy, not tearing down someone you disagree with. I respect him for his do it yourself nature and taking matters into his own hands with his booze.

 

[Revvy]

Craig's happy with what he's doing. If you've followed him at all, or even read the posts in this thread, you would know that the reason he does it is to save costs on the ultra expensive Canadian beer.

Just because he doesn't move on with his homebrewing techniques doesn't mean he's a sad excuse.

Homebrewing is about sharing the joy, not tearing down someone you disagree with. I respect him for his do it yourself nature and taking matters into his own hands with his booze.

+1,000,000 to what you and unionrdr just said. Craig bashing is so old and tiring. He's happy with what he's doing. And evidently there's a couple folks on here who have tasted his beer, and it tastes like......






Beer.

(Which is all that matters.)

 

[unionrdr]

Thanks revvy. I guess we had to try to drive the point home about a good,average Joe sort that just wanted to spread the love about home brewing. That's why I'm here. Not just to learn more,which is great by the way. But to give something back to the noobs coming in behind me the way you & others helped me. I think that's also part of where Craig's head is at.

 

[Revvy]

Thanks revvy. I guess we had to try to drive the point home about a good,average Joe sort that just wanted to spread the love about home brewing. That's why I'm here. Not just to learn more,which is great by the way. But to give something back to the noobs coming in behind me the way you & others helped me. I think that's also part of where Craig's head is at.

The funny thing is about THIS old thread. When it was started, it was the first thread that didn't totally trash Craig. It wasn't as mean as some of the other ones. Definitely not the same attitude that fredthecat has. It was like finally folks were looking at Craig with a level of maturity and not the "superiority" of the new, elitist, brewer zealot that thinks there's only one way to make beer (and Craig's way is not it.)

This is a HOBBY, it's about having fun...at the level that works best for you. Some folks love spending hours doing a triple decoction mashi with a side of cereal mashing, and water chemistry additions, SOME have fun making beer by just openning a can.....And some, like CRAIG, don't really even see this as a hobby, as much as a means to an end. He's in it to make a cheaper, yet still tasty, alternative to the lcbo and high beer prices. And I think his videos were really geared to folks like him, and not necessarily folks who want more from the hobby. But the nature of the interwebz is that, folks looking to enter into it as a hobby discovered the videos.

A lot of folks have used it as a stepping stone, which is great. A lot of folks also stay at that level to make cheap beer, which is just as great.

A wise man once said, "Never bash another man's brewery."

The way I see it, there are kids starving everyday, some of our friends could die any minute in Afghanistan and Irag, so who cares how Craig makes HIS beer.

 

[unionrdr]

Here here! Well said. Or like my 9th grade math teacher made a small poster of,above the chalkboard;do your own thing,but don't stop me from doing mine! 'Nuff said.