JaCk_SpArRoW wrote:Well im sure I will learn the right way, as I have a local brewers club I'll be going to...im sure you've heard of one of the members...Dr K or Kurtz?...im sure he knows the right way!...and Im sure he doesnt use books!
Everyone one uses or consults some sort of book or magazine or article. To no do so would mean you aren't making anything in a specific style of beer. And by the way things have changed both techniques and materials in the last few years. Both are better so there are times when asking an old time brewer won't help you but a new magazine or newly published book will help you even more. Old timers don't often keep up with what is new. And those that do often only learn what is new in what they brew often only all grain brews and since you are using extract they will simply tell you to go all grain because they don't know that extract brewing is much better now and they don't know the new methods and materials we use in extract brewing today.
So I am telling you getting a new homebrewing book a recently published one not an old one is going to help you more than an old time all grain brewer. He doesn't know or care what new things extract brewers are doing.
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JaCk_SpArRoW wrote:Well im sure I will learn the right way, as I have a local brewers club I'll be going to...im sure you've heard of one of the members...Dr K or Kurtz?...im sure he knows the right way!...and Im sure he doesnt use books!
Everyone one uses or consults some sort of book or magazine or article. To no do so would mean you aren't making anything in a specific style of beer. And by the way things have changed both techniques and materials in the last few years. Both are better so there are times when asking an old time brewer won't help you but a new magazine or newly published book will help you even more. Old timers don't often keep up with what is new. And those that do often only learn what is new in what they brew often only all grain brews and since you are using extract they will simply tell you to go all grain because they don't know that extract brewing is much better now and they don't know the new methods and materials we use in extract brewing today.
So I am telling you getting a new homebrewing book a recently published one not an old one is going to help you more than an old time all grain brewer. He doesn't know or care what new things extract brewers are doing.
Ok, thanks...I'll look around for one....I dont really want to get into AG brewing yet cos Im only getting a handle on Kit (Extract only) brewing!
I want to perfect what I am doing now & make it better, then maybe later do the whole AG thing!
Not quite sure I agree with that point. A poorly made all grain will not do as well as a well made extract. But all things being equal I believe the grain will win out.
And yes, I still make extracts to.
Dogger
"Listening to someone who brews their own beer is like listening to a religous fanatic talk about the day he saw the light" Ross Murray, Montreal Gazette
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