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Making a strong IPA is a good way to hide a lack of brewing skills. If you try to brew a simple blond beer that tastes interesting you really can't hide anythin
by dep_b 10y ago
Making a strong IPA is a good way to hide a lack of brewing skills. If you try to brew a simple blond beer that tastes interesting you really can't hide anything. Not saying strong IPA's are always bad but I've noticed more than once that a microbrewery only had an interesting IPA and the rest was either boring or even downright bad.
- SippinLean 10y agoAbsolutely not. Much harder to pull off a recipe that involves multiple malts and several late hop additions. Maybe what your saying applies to some homebrewers, but breweries don't make IPAs because they screwed up a pale ale and decided to add more hops. Even at small breweries every brewing is planned in advance and coordinated with supply and brewing space. The QA at any commercial brewery would have to be absolutely terrible if they couldn't brew something as simple as a blond without off flavors.
- dep_b 10y agoThe line between home brewers and microbreweries can be a bit vague. If I buy a beer in a pub there's no certificate that a beer has been brewed in a professional production facility by certain standards. But that already really sounds like a Reinheitsgrebot ;) I like IPA's a lot, perhaps after big Belgian flavours my favourite, but I don't trust breweries that have a mediocre (boring and/or not super well made) selection of beers where only the IPA stands out.
- SippinLean 10y agoIt isn't vague where I live, a bar can't sell homebrew under federal law. I generally don't trust breweries that have "a mediocre selection of beers" in general, regardless of what type of IPA they're serving.
- monocasa 10y agoIt's vague because basically the only difference between a homebrew and and a nanobrew is that the nanobrew has cut the right checks to the right .gov entities.