Of building Hay Wagons and Benz's
Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2016 8:17 am
As Das Alte so eloquently says: "When a brewer chases after numbers, things that are much more important can be missed. When a person does not know the difference between an hay wagon and a Benz, he can be convinced that an hay wagon is a Benz. He can be handed a book on how to build an hay wagon, and he will build it, all the while thinking that he has built a Benz. Then, comes the day when he learns what a Benz is and on that day he realizes that he has been a fool."
This is the primary reason this forum exists. We painstakingly chase perfection of German beers, sometimes chasing numbers, sometimes going on gut, or following acquired information. Building a hay wagon thinking it's a Benz is the perfect analogy for much of what we have encountered, and I believe folks here KNOW what they are after.
To make our exploration and journey of German beer brewing successful, please share your thoughts on how to improve our collective approach towards achieving our goals? Initially we needed a place to discuss the role of oxygen throughout brewing and our experiments, but there is so so much more than that to the overall processes, ingredients, and packaging/stability. And the community here has widened to include some very talented folks.
Whether you have a process approach that has worked that you think would be valuable, an experiment we could all participate in, a recipe idea that needs to be tried, or translation/interpretation of brewing texts to adapt a process to homebrew scale, please share the idea here and let's get some general discussion going about how this collective group can help support each other better.
Thanks!
This is the primary reason this forum exists. We painstakingly chase perfection of German beers, sometimes chasing numbers, sometimes going on gut, or following acquired information. Building a hay wagon thinking it's a Benz is the perfect analogy for much of what we have encountered, and I believe folks here KNOW what they are after.
To make our exploration and journey of German beer brewing successful, please share your thoughts on how to improve our collective approach towards achieving our goals? Initially we needed a place to discuss the role of oxygen throughout brewing and our experiments, but there is so so much more than that to the overall processes, ingredients, and packaging/stability. And the community here has widened to include some very talented folks.
Whether you have a process approach that has worked that you think would be valuable, an experiment we could all participate in, a recipe idea that needs to be tried, or translation/interpretation of brewing texts to adapt a process to homebrew scale, please share the idea here and let's get some general discussion going about how this collective group can help support each other better.
Thanks!