main difference of commercial &homebrewing?

[smilem]

I just made my first batch of beer using Cooper's malt extract and it's great!!
Ive tasted a few homewbrews and they all have a certain characteristic. The smell.
That fine strong malt smell that it identifies it almost immediately as a homebrew.
From what ive read the method of homebrewing and commercial brewing is almost the same only difference being that commercial brewing mostly filters their beer (lagers).
My question is : what is it that gives homebrews their distinctive smell that commercial brews dont have?

I hope ive worded my question correctly, thx.

 

[Reverend JC]

I think the biggest difference is pasteurization. They do it, we don't.

Also, they use significantly less malts and more adjuncts like corn or rice.

 

[sonvolt]

I've heard people refer to this as "extract twang." I remember that taste in my beers during my first couple years in the hobby. Although a lot of homebrewers deny the existence of such a flavor from extract, I have never had that flavor when making all grain batches. I suspect that some malt extracts have a distinct flavor that is almost impossible to avoid. This is just IMO.

 

[olllllo]

You may also be comparing commercial lagers to homebrewed ales.

Apples to oranges thing.

 

[david_42]

You may also be comparing commercial lagers to homebrewed ales.

Really, having had enough commercial microbrew ales and homebrew ales to constitute a statistical universe, I don't see much difference. Homebrewers do ales because they are easier and faster than lagers. Big commercial brewers do lagers, because they can brew heavy, dilute and chill to hide the lack of taste. Microbreweries do ales for the flavor.

 

[Orfy]

The big commercial brewers can't brew a product the same way as micro and home brewers. The Big commercials need simple recipes that turn out the same every time!
Most of them kill the brew after they've finished. It's then sent out flat, dead and thin. It's cooled and given fizz so that you don't taste it and to give it some life back.

 

[olllllo]

Really, having had enough commercial microbrew ales and homebrew ales to constitute a statistical universe, I don't see much difference. Homebrewers do ales because they are easier and faster than lagers. Big commercial brewers do lagers, because they can brew heavy, dilute and chill to hide the lack of taste. Microbreweries do ales for the flavor.

I meant you can't compare homebrew to BMC, but I get your drift.

 

[frothy]

With all grain brewing you can achieve exactly the same results as a microbrewery because you are brewing using the same methods. Extract brewing can produce good beers and is a good way to start learning. I'm not sure about the idea that large breweries can't make good beer I simply think that many choose to make cheap beer - have you seen the size of some of their mash tuns?

Matt

 

[compact007]

My question is : what is it that gives homebrews their distinctive smell that commercial brews dont have?

the answer is quite simple actually, its love!! Love of the brew gives it that smell, ohh yeah also the flavor that we add contributes a little.