- Joined
- Oct 6, 2019
- Messages
- 2,444
- Reaction score
- 4,457
I would say that most of the time I can brew a fairly good butter or mild, but I do not have consistency. Case in point the batch I recently kegged fermented down to 1.001 instead of the target of 1.005, it tastes not too bad, but wasn’t exactly what I was aiming for. It’s a recipe I have brewed multiple time’s, and most likely I messed up the mash temperature.
When I buy a can of Punk IPA in a supermarket or a pint of Tribute in a pub, I can confidently say it will taste pretty much exactly the same as the last one I bought a few weeks or months before. When I drink the first pint of a home brewed batch I cannot say with certainty that it will taste the same as the previous batch, it might be better it might be worse but it probably will not be the same. I brew because it’s a fun hobby and I can get some pretty decent beer out of it, but I am under no illusion that my beer is superior to a lot of commercial beer. Yes their are some pretty mediocre or down right terrible commercial beer but there is a lot of pretty great commercial beer out there.
When I buy a can of Punk IPA in a supermarket or a pint of Tribute in a pub, I can confidently say it will taste pretty much exactly the same as the last one I bought a few weeks or months before. When I drink the first pint of a home brewed batch I cannot say with certainty that it will taste the same as the previous batch, it might be better it might be worse but it probably will not be the same. I brew because it’s a fun hobby and I can get some pretty decent beer out of it, but I am under no illusion that my beer is superior to a lot of commercial beer. Yes their are some pretty mediocre or down right terrible commercial beer but there is a lot of pretty great commercial beer out there.