why do so many people F with kit beer?

[jfr1111]

Personally, I don't care about fruits, chocolate or various herbs in beer, because a lot of the commercial beers I have tried that do this do it as a gimmick. Thus they turn up the taste to 11 and it ends up being too much of a possibly good thing. Dieu du Ciel brewery has a beer brewed with hemp and it smells awful.

Many like experimenting with weird ingredients. I don't, but I'm not some style nazi either.

 

[Tyrone]

OP, I bet your favorite ice cream flavor is "by god" vanilla...

amiright?

 

[emjay]

Personally, I don't care about fruits, chocolate or various herbs in beer, because a lot of the commercial beers I have tried that do this do it as a gimmick. Thus they turn up the taste to 11 and it ends up being too much of a possibly good thing. Dieu du Ciel brewery has a beer brewed with hemp and it smells awful.

Many like experimenting with weird ingredients. I don't, but I'm not some style nazi either.

Dieu du Ciel also has a nice beer that's flavored with hibiscus. And their most famous and popular beer (rated as the #1 in Canadian by the ratings sites) happens to be a RIS with coffee.

And chocolate, IMO, is not as gimmicky in most beers like other ingredients (eg chile peppers) can be. Don't know how anybody can dislike Young's Double Chocolate Stout.

 

[Baldy_Beer_Brewery]

I have thought of Buzz Beer occasionally in response to homebrewing discussions,

It has been a damn long time since I've seen it either. Now that you mention the Buzz Beeer, I think the Cap-Beer_Chino was someone trying to compete with Drew and his friends wasn't it?

 

[spam]

please do not get me wrong,if you are on your 10th kit ,,by all means try new things,,,,I was just saying people have posted about their first and second batch tasting bad then they reveal all kinds of crazy additions and changes. I am sure one year from now I will try something,,noting candy- like but something none the less. The only beer that had a flavor I liked was one that was made with some kind of maple leaf(forget the name) but that is where my other question came from. For now I will just follow my kits instructions to a T,,then if it tastes bad it will not be as hard to narrow down.

I did not start this to offend anybody,I was simply asking a question,,please don't hate

 

[SwampassJ]

please do not get me wrong,if you are on your 10th kit ,,by all means try new things,,,,I was just saying people have posted about their first and second batch tasting bad then they reveal all kinds of crazy additions and changes. I am sure one year from now I will try something,,noting candy- like but something none the less. The only beer that had a flavor I liked was one that was made with some kind of maple leaf(forget the name) but that is where my other question came from. For now I will just follow my kits instructions to a T,,then if it tastes bad it will not be as hard to narrow down.

I did not start this to offend anybody,I was simply asking a question,,please don't hate

Careful with following the instructions, some that go by a timeframe will have you transferring before terminal gravity is hit.

 

[TopherM]

Whenever I make a fruity or candy kinda beer, it is for SWMBO. If she doesn't like them, though, I happily drink them myself. They still produce the proper BUZZZZZZ!

 

[Brew_4iT]

I'm sure the first guy who thought to put hops in beer had the same initial reaction. Or the guy that isolated and proclaimed an organism made it possible for the alcoholic beverage, and then to go on further and cultivate it.

Without these kinds of people who think outside of the box and experiment we would be still drinking a very gnarly mead right now... But then you could venture further and argue the first person that added herbs and flowers with honey

 

[unionrdr]

...or the 1st guy to drink that nasty lookin mess in the grain storage jug after it got rained on while out huntin. They musta thought he had rocks in his head too. Guess I have to digress.

 

[HexKrak]

I love a good chocolate porter/stout/bock, and coriander and orange are great in wit's, and how did we come to this conclusion? Some crazed brewer experimenting and pushing the limits. Who knows what random item will be the next big thing, unless we try?

That said, I've had a lot of beers that were spiced far from what my pallet can appreciate, while the brewmaster really enjoyed them, so you definitely have to account for different tastes as well.

 

[teresalgl]

I screw with everything. It's just my nature.

 

[cheezydemon3]

NO HATE.

I honestly thought you meant "why do so many people bother with kits?" from the title.

I never bother with buying kits, and I could see that viewpoint as valid, if not a little harsh.

So when I got in and it was sounding more like "who in their right mind would change something in a kit?" I was ready for some playful noob harassment......

 

[Hernando]

Homebrewer conversation, circa 1424:

"What hath the Dutch done, marrying good ale with the vile hop?"

"It is an abomination which the tongue doth surely reject!"

"Hold your curses, knaves! For taste is truly in the mouth of the beerholder!" (Phrase was eventually misused and altered, just as Ben Franklin's was.)

^ = Hilarious

 

[bartbinga]

I see nothing wrong with taking a Brewer's Best Robust Porter kit and brewing a choco-banana-coffee-chili-smoked-oaked-cherry-bacon-bourbon porter. Yum!

MMMMMMM Bacon.......

 

[Austinhomebrew]

I don't mind someone changing a recipe or adding to a recipe. I just dont like it when people add something to one of my recipes then they go on my website to make a bad review. They say it doesnt taste good and oh by the way I added a half a pot of coffee to it. Why leave a bad review of my kit that you terribly altered?

I also don't like the assumption that no matter how hard I try the recipe for my kit cant be good or good enough because kits suck.

Kits are just a combination of ingredients just like the ones you put together.

I embrace change and welcome it.

Forrest

 

[FreshZ]

I don't mind someone changing a recipe or adding to a recipe. I just dont like it when people add something to one of my recipes then they go on my website to make a bad review. They say it doesnt taste good and oh by the way I added a half a pot of coffee to it. Why leave a bad review of my kit that you terribly altered?

I also don't like the assumption that no matter how hard I try the recipe for my kit cant be good or good enough because kits suck.

Kits are just a combination of ingredients just like the ones you put together.

I embrace change and welcome it.

Forrest

I just bought the American IPA (I). Its my first kit from AHS and I'm pumped about it. I promise I won't screw with it. Can't say I'll do everything right, but that will be my fault.