poopyhead
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this is probably a stupid question but... when someone just says 2 row in a recipe are they refering to 2 row pale, 2 row pilsner, or something else?
I have always understood it to be American pale malt, if a recipe calls for Pilsner malt is specifies Pilsner, or Maris Otter, or Munich, but if it calls for 2-row I assume it is American 2-row pale malt.
i guess i really just dont understand why people dont specify that in their recipe.. doesnt make much sense to me if they are going to lay out a specific recipe and leave that 2 row as an uncertainty...
It's an assumption that people will know that 2-row = pale, not pilsner.
2-row pale takes .2 more seconds to type thats all im saying. obviously now i know what they mean, but for noobs like me, the first time i just see just "2-row," it would be stupid to assume anything.
this is probably a stupid question but... when someone just says 2 row in a recipe are they refering to 2 row pale, 2 row pilsner, or something else?
So, perhaps a list of terms would be beneficial??? I might start a thread on that and see if it can get stickied...
I think what he's trying to say is,those of you that've been on here for years & gone AG know what you're talking about. The newbies don't. But some study (reading,videos) would show what some of these terms are. Just to show the flip side.
@Revvy
I was just looking. I knew we had some acronyms but I don't see a list of applicable terms with definitions. I try to use the search function or Google to my advantage before asking my question, but there have beena few times that the answer wasn't easily found.
I do think that we're now spending entirely too much time on this thread.
So, perhaps a list of terms would be beneficial??? I might start a thread on that and see if it can get stickied...
So you're saying we have to change years and years of brewing culture and recipe posting just to suit you since those of us who've been brewing have never really had an issue with assuming, or understanding this? In years on here, you're the only person that's brought this up. So how is it an epidemic? Seems to me you have the problem, not us. So we have to change to cater to you?
Did I miss the memo, did you get elected center of the brewing univers????
Pilsner is a pale malt, there are several different pale malts, one would be referred to as "Pilsner", another known as "Maris Otter", there are several others, but among them is one simply referred to as "2-row".
I really think you are over-analyzing this, I have never seen a recipe with pilsner malt that was called anything other than pilsner malt, nor have I seen a recipe using Maris Otter that called it anything other than Maris Otter.
Today I went into my LHBS for some things, I asked for a sack of 2-row, they did not ask if I wanted pilsner, or Maris Otter, they brought me a 50lb sack of American 2-row, because it is understood what 2-row is, if I wanted pils or MO I would have asked for it.
The vernacular will come in time, just like it did for myself and many other brewers. you just need to pick it up, and try not to read too much into it, or else you might end up asking "why the heck is it 'vorlauf' and not simply 'drain the first runnings into a pitcher until the wort runs clear'?
Hammer24 said:Well, as a Noob myself - and this is the first thread I've read, it appears that there are stupid questions according to the responders. I'm thinking twice about asking newbie questions. On top of no clear and reasonable 'teaching' answer, there's even the burden'd "since i've never had that problem, there is no problem" mentality. Geeez. Don't hurt yourself climbing down from your brewing pedistal to swish away us new guys. We'd rather you didn't waste your (actually 'Our) time. As a new guy, i read the question and new exactly what was asked and why he asked it. It made sense........it just needed a thought out answer. So much for that.
I think you're taking some of the comments the wrong way. Don't be turned off of these forums based upon one quick judgement. This is the friendliest, most helpful forum I've ever encountered regardless of topic. You'd be doing yourself a disservice by judging it based on one thread.
As to the OP's question. I think it can be difficult for the more experiences brewers to remember back to true n00bdom. I think the OP has probably been reading about the very basics of what malt is and is thinking in terms of 2-row vs 6-row rather than '2-row' as a malt variety, which is really just short hand for 2-row American brewers (or pale or base) malt.
The Wiki section of the site has been helpful to me in the past in answering questions like this. There is an excellent rundown of specific malt varieties in there somewhere.
yea im done using this site.
Plus, it's a home brewing forum. So you never know when someone's drunk posting
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