Again and again and again we get newbies popping up and posting things like IPA recipes with 3 pounds of crystal malt. It's been going on for years.
You don't get the same thing with other specialty malts, at least not to that extent. You don't see stout recipes with roasted barley making up 50% of the grain bill, although you do at times get darker beer recipes with umpteen different kinds of specialty malts.
I wonder why that is? What makes crystal malts bombs so appealing to newbies?
I did a hundred boneheaded things as a newbie and continue to do a lot of dumb stuff today but never felt the need to do that. But maybe that's because I bought uncrushed specialty malts and crushed them with a rolling pin and all but the very darkest crystal malts are incredibly annoying to crush in that way.
You don't get the same thing with other specialty malts, at least not to that extent. You don't see stout recipes with roasted barley making up 50% of the grain bill, although you do at times get darker beer recipes with umpteen different kinds of specialty malts.
I wonder why that is? What makes crystal malts bombs so appealing to newbies?
I did a hundred boneheaded things as a newbie and continue to do a lot of dumb stuff today but never felt the need to do that. But maybe that's because I bought uncrushed specialty malts and crushed them with a rolling pin and all but the very darkest crystal malts are incredibly annoying to crush in that way.