Why no flavor in homebrew ???

[Grinder12000]

I've gone to a Home Brew Fest and we had a big event at for our club and I was surprised that many many times, perhaps +60% of the times peoples home brew just taste watered down.

Is this a recipe problem?? Technique? I've sort of kept this to myself for a while thinking it was ME. But I made a comment and 2 other guys said they felt the same way.

I'm not expecting everyone to have extreme brews but so many lack flavor.!

Opinions? Comments?

 

[weirdboy]

I dunno, the brews I drink at my homebrew club meetings usually taste pretty good.

 

[Zen_Brew]

It probably depends on your preferences. I find most homebrews to have good flavor. Many people just prefer a basic pale ale or amber ale and stick with those styles. They certainly have flavor, just perhaps not as heavy as some people who have become accustomed to heavier beers.

Remember how many BMC drinkes there are out there, and some will swear by the taste of their chosen. I find very little flavor to any of the big 3, but I started drinking imports 25 years ago, and switched over to micro beers when the US market became palatable to me, so I have been drinking essentially much heavier beers than BMC for a long time. I suppose there could be some flavor to them, but I really can't detect it.

 

[Eigenmusic]

I'd blame the water before anything else.

 

[Noleafclover]

Just a thought here... Locally there was a big brewfest gathering for a charity. 700+ people etc. The folks organizing had both local brewpubs and bigger homebrew clubs particpate.

The guys in the booth next to us (both a homebrew club and nano-brewery) were serving up something they had sent back to them from a customer (by their own admission).

Why anyone would ever do that escapes me. I'd rather eat the cost of the grain/yeast on a batch of beer that tastes likes satan's crotch vs serving it to the public to get rid of it.

 

[KYB]

None of mine has tasted watered down. I haven't tasted any other homebrew though. I HATE watered down beer. I like full flavored, big beers.

 

[Sum1Stu]

Yeah im into tasty beers also, kind of into ales more than lagers now.

 

[Noleafclover]

Yeah im into tasty beers also, kind of into ales more than lagers now.

This has been me because of temp contraints. But we'll see soon. I've had some fine lagers. Probably because the brewers of said lagers are patient enough to let their beer condition properly.