fluketamer
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i dont brew to style. in a way it feels wrong. theres a reason that beers have styles. a pilsner is a pilsner. its been brewed that way for hundreds of years for a reason.
i am not sure why i dont brew to style i have the capability to do so. i started with kits and kits force you into a beer not a specific style. just recently smata mentioned this in another thread. my beer tastes good but its more generalized. like my lagers taste lagery because i brew them with small grain bills and lager yeast. but the hops and base or special malts have nothing to do with style it has to do with whatever i have lying around in the brewery. my stouts are stout cause they got black patent and chocolate malt with ale yeast not cause they got the right base malts.
it seems to work for me but i know it is frowned upon. maybe styles help us to feel what a beer should taste like when we are drinking them but maybe its not necessary to brew to style. i can attest that a problem with mixing things hodgepodge and not brewing to style can result in unbalanced beers that are not "great"
i love how theres literally a thread for everything already on this website.
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/threads/brewing-beer-not-to-a-style.681916/
do most of you brew to style or just throw in whatever you have lying around?
i am not sure why i dont brew to style i have the capability to do so. i started with kits and kits force you into a beer not a specific style. just recently smata mentioned this in another thread. my beer tastes good but its more generalized. like my lagers taste lagery because i brew them with small grain bills and lager yeast. but the hops and base or special malts have nothing to do with style it has to do with whatever i have lying around in the brewery. my stouts are stout cause they got black patent and chocolate malt with ale yeast not cause they got the right base malts.
it seems to work for me but i know it is frowned upon. maybe styles help us to feel what a beer should taste like when we are drinking them but maybe its not necessary to brew to style. i can attest that a problem with mixing things hodgepodge and not brewing to style can result in unbalanced beers that are not "great"
i love how theres literally a thread for everything already on this website.
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/threads/brewing-beer-not-to-a-style.681916/
do most of you brew to style or just throw in whatever you have lying around?