Where's Kaiser?

[remilard]

Can it be a single person? Three-way tie between Revvy, Kaiser, and Mabrungard. By volume, HBT wins. By consistent quality of content, HBT leaves a lot to be desired. There is a ton of good stuff on here, if you dig for it, but HBT is also the greatest base of "is my beer fermenting?" content. Disclaimer, I know that's really snobby and HBT helped me a bunch when I was a noobie, and I obviously use HBT all the time or I wouldn't be typing this right now. I guess I just like griping.

Kai (when he is online) and Martin are on every forum though, so to the extend this is a forum pissing contest, they kinda net themselves out.

If we are talking about internet only, HBD is hard to beat if you are willing to dig.

I think all of the newer online stuff suffers from the same problem. People don't really geek out anymore. Everyone is all "single infusion mash and dump in some dry yeast and it doesn't really matter what you do yada yada" which is fine, and can make good beer, but that brewing approach doesn't merit a whole lot of discussion.

 

[dwarven_stout]

New Brewing Lager Beer by Greg Noonan.

I was just going to throw out you and Saq as homebrewing knowledge repositories. I always like seeing you two poke into a thread, because I know I'm going to be put some information.

 

[passedpawn]

Reality is, brewing does involve some equipment. Homebrewing equipment. This forum covers that stuff pretty well. I.e., electric brewing?

 

[bob1852]

I think all of the newer online stuff suffers from the same problem. People don't really geek out anymore. Everyone is all "single infusion mash and dump in some dry yeast and it doesn't really matter what you do yada yada" which is fine, and can make good beer, but that brewing approach doesn't merit a whole lot of discussion.

That's a very good point. There's a lot of "yes you can make beer with Mr. Beer or Cooper's kits, but you can make better beer with a single infusion mash and sprinkled dry yeast" and it often stops there.

There really are many more steps to go from making "better" beer to "excellent" beer, of which, many don't want to do or need to do, but that doesn't mean there aren't advanced techniques out there that can produce a superior product.

I mean, not to beat a dead horse, but how come the vast majority (or all?) of NHC-winning recipes as published in BYO/Zymurgi use liquid yeast? *consider pot officially stirred*

 

[Houblon]

I would buy Revvy's book and give it to my friends who want to start brewing. I'd probably read through it myself first though.

I wouldn't as they would be waiting months for a beer to carb, not worry about oxidation and if they heard that the bottles should be carbed while laying on the sides wouldn't do because Revvy says no brewery does that...
cough,cough I guess he's never had a bottle of beer from Dupont or Blaugies as both lay the bottles during carbing.

Thats just off the top of my head.

If you needed information about something brew-related that was new to you, where would you search first?

Thats a loaded question, if the beer info was Belgian related then I would & do go to Belgian/Dutch/French web forums.

If the info was sour beers, then hands down its Babble Belt.

After that I trust (in no order) morebeer,NB and now AHA


Sorry but the signal to noise ratio here is just too thick,
"hey my beer has stopped bubbling....." " I need to wash my yeast"- nevermind that its not really washing as that is done with acid or you need to add sugar to the fermentor- otherwise the yeast will poop out... just some of the things posted.

The bulk of good info here is from wayy back in the archives, funny but most of those posters have moved on.

 

[Revvy]

I wouldn't as they would be waiting months for a beer to carb, not worry about oxidation and if they heard that the bottles should be carbed while laying on the sides wouldn't do because Revvy says no brewery does that...
cough,cough I guess he's never had a bottle of beer from Dupont or Blaugies as both lay the bottles during carbing.

Thats just off the top of my head.

I don't recall ever speaking about Belgian Beers laying on their side during carbonation, only a new brewer's 12 ounce pale ale or whatever their first batch happens to be, are you saying THEY should lay those on their side?

The bulk of good info here is from wayy back in the archives, funny but most of those posters have moved on.

You seem to delight more in bashing this place and the people in here, than actually contributing.

If this place is so terrible, then why don't you join them?

That's just off the top of MY head.

 

[remilard]

Reality is, brewing does involve some equipment. Homebrewing equipment. This forum covers that stuff pretty well. I.e., electric brewing?

This forum is definitely the best for diy equipment, and I think that is part of why it is popular. Even though it may as well be called water q and a with AJ (and now Martin) the science forum is a good idea.

 

[passedpawn]

If the info was sour beers, then hands down its Babble Belt.

That's a great site! I didn't know about it. I've been making serial sours lately, trying to nail down the process, and that site is chock full of great info. Thanks.

 

[Pappers_]

Thats a loaded question, if the beer info was Belgian related then I would & do go to Belgian/Dutch/French web forums.

If the info was sour beers, then hands down its Babble Belt.

After that I trust (in no order) morebeer,NB and now AHA


Sorry but the signal to noise ratio here is just too thick,
"hey my beer has stopped bubbling....." " I need to wash my yeast"- nevermind that its not really washing as that is done with acid or you need to add sugar to the fermentor- otherwise the yeast will poop out... just some of the things posted.

The bulk of good info here is from wayy back in the archives, funny but most of those posters have moved on.

Just to be clear, I think the AHA is great - no slam against it at all.

Passed Pawn said that HBT is a the greatest knowledge base of homebrewing. You called that hubris. I think PP is closer to being correct than you.

The sites you posted are certainly good and I'll need to check out Babble, which I'm unfamiliar with, but neither the AHA forum or the NB forum have the breadth or depth of information available at HBT.

HBT is not the definitive, authoritative source for any one area of brewing related information. Rather, its a big, broad, storehouse of knowledge about countless areas of brewing-related information.

I like your example of yeast rinsing. There's lots of info here about yeast - the yeast 'washing' thread you mention, countless posts in the yeast subforum about yeast management, how yeast work, yeast strains, etc. It goes on and on. Its a great place for homebrewers to learn about yeast, based on the experience of thousands of other homebrewers.

The information which I garnered here led me to further exploration, conversations about yeast with homebrewers in my local club, and then I read 'Yeast'. The information in that book is far more authoritative than the info on yeast at HBT - which makes sense, right? Its a book written by experts about yeast and HBT is an internet forum about everything related to homebrewing.

 

[Pappers_]

I wouldn't as they would be waiting months for a beer to carb, not worry about oxidation and if they heard that the bottles should be carbed while laying on the sides wouldn't do because Revvy says no brewery does that...
cough,cough I guess he's never had a bottle of beer from Dupont or Blaugies as both lay the bottles during carbing.

Thats just off the top of my head.

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Sorry but the signal to noise ratio here is just too thick,
"hey my beer has stopped bubbling....." " I need to wash my yeast"- nevermind that its not really washing as that is done with acid or you need to add sugar to the fermentor- otherwise the yeast will poop out... just some of the things posted.

The bulk of good info here is from wayy back in the archives, funny but most of those posters have moved on.

You complain about the "my beer has stopped bubbling" posts. I find posts like yours (see above) far more annoying. Of course its fine to disagree with a poster, but snarkiness is always annoying, in my opinion.

Both are expected on internet forums, of course. For me, though, I can tolerate the newbie posts far more than the condescending or snarky posts.

 

[1Mainebrew]

Whoa whoa whoa, time out. This was just supposed to make sure a well respected and well known homebrewer who has helped a ton of us on HBT was ok. Nothing more nothing less. I'm just glad he- and everyone else here for that matter- is alright, and bummed for people when they're not. What can I say, I'm a softy.

 

[the_bird]

Whoa whoa whoa, time out. This was just supposed to make sure a well respected and well known homebrewer who has helped a ton of us on HBT was ok. Nothing more nothing less. I'm just glad he- and everyone else here for that matter- is alright, and bummed for people when they're not. What can I say, I'm a softy.

Well, yeah. You can't have ANY conversation around here without it turning into a fight. That's exactly what sucks.

Lots of old-times I miss. Dude. Walker (although he's around a bit). Glibbidy. Ize. Brewpastor. Kai. JMulligan. Sause. Baron. Even some of the guys who are still around, aren't around as much as they used to be. BierMuncher. Yuri. EdWort.

Makes me fell old, *********!