| Everyone who loves beer has their own | | | | buy chocolate malt to achieve a result that tastes |
| preferences as to the best brands and the best | | | | enough like chocolate and enough like beer to suit |
| tastes. Some of the most popular beers in the | | | | all palates. |
| world are unique-tasting brands which are | | | | The importance of restraint in brewing flavored |
| recognisable to all and have a legion of fans who | | | | beer is crucial. As there is a lot of fun to be had |
| enjoy them. there are many people who feel | | | | trying out different flavours, you will be hard |
| however that the readily available brands lack a | | | | pressed to find something that you cannot make |
| certain something. The range of different lagers | | | | into a beer. You could, theoretically, make a beer |
| which are popular with millions are considered | | | | that tastes like cheese, but it would be horrible. It |
| bland by many, who term them as being almost | | | | is also worth remembering that adding a product |
| like water. | | | | to the brewing process does not mean that the |
| When brewing your own beer, you could make a | | | | beer will taste like that item. Sometimes it is |
| near replica of any one of the bottled or canned | | | | worth adding a flavouring that tastes like the |
| brands available in stores. You could, however, go | | | | intended product rather than adding the product |
| for something a little different. There is such a | | | | itself. |
| wide range of different tastes that you can go | | | | Whatever you do it is important to recognize that |
| for. There is practically no limit to what you can | | | | just because you like chocolate and you like beer, |
| do with the right ingredients, in fact. However, it | | | | it doesn't mean that you will like chocolate beer. |
| should be remembered that just because you can | | | | By all means experiment with different |
| do something, it does not mean you should. You | | | | flavourings, but try to get the right balance of |
| could, theoretically, make a beer that tastes of | | | | difference and quality. A fruit-flavored beer is a |
| just about anything, but some of them will taste | | | | good place to start, but do not make the mistake |
| horrific. Brewing flavoured beer is as much about | | | | of thinking that because the fruit itself is an |
| restraint as it is imagination. | | | | organic ingredient that it should be added |
| For example, it is possible to brew beer to taste | | | | unrefined. |
| like chocolate. It is entirely possible to brew very | | | | Brewing flavored beers depends on getting the |
| good chocolate beer, but many people make the | | | | results whatever it takes. It's not cheating to add |
| mistake of looking at the recipe, thinking "that | | | | extract of fruit to get a fruit flavor When it |
| would be great with a little bit more chocolate" | | | | comes down to it, remember that there is a limit |
| and amending the recipe only to find themselves | | | | to what you should do, and work happily within |
| with a frankly sickly brew that tastes more like | | | | that limit. |
| sour chocolate soup than anything else. You can | | | | |