| Homebrew recipes are as interesting as water | | | | to have strong taste buds. You cannot hire a |
| color is to children. You mix ingredients in different | | | | taster who would be willing to puke his guts out |
| ways and different shares to achieve a multitude | | | | every time you make a mistake. Besides, it is |
| of effects. Home brewing is really like mixing a | | | | your concept of a perfect drink that is at stake |
| palette of colors. You know that blue plus yellow | | | | here. |
| is green. But how green is green would vary | | | | To be able to make your own recipe, you have |
| according to the blue and yellow proportions. It is | | | | to log all the things you do every time you brew. |
| very similar to your brew. You have a recipe. You | | | | There are times when you roast the barley malt |
| know that adding all of these ingredients would | | | | a minute longer and you think it is not significant |
| give you beer. But varying the amount of each | | | | you don't bother to log it. But then the outcome |
| component would change the taste, mixing in | | | | would happen to be the brew you have desired |
| different temperatures would alter the product. | | | | to achieve. And you replicate everything you did |
| There are several online blogs that discuss recipe | | | | except for that extra minute. You'll never get the |
| improvisations. One such entry, for example, | | | | same taste again. This had happened to many |
| advised on how to make a chili beer which would | | | | home brew bloggers. They forget how they got |
| require the addition of another ingredient not | | | | a really good blend because they just pour in |
| normally used in manufacturing beer. Other entries | | | | ingredients without bothering to take note of |
| could advise you how to make beers that would | | | | them. But it's like a one in a million thing with all |
| taste like so and so sold in the market. You can | | | | the possible ratios of ingredients, the different |
| also get tips on how to make your beer retain a | | | | temperatures, the extent of brewing, and a lot |
| particular taste but feel lighter in your stomach. | | | | more gazillion factors in brewing your beer. |
| These discussions are fine and you would learn a | | | | Because of this, sometimes, brewers list the |
| lot from them especially from those who have | | | | brewing log as among the important things that a |
| been developing home made beer for years. | | | | home brewer must have. It even is prioritized in |
| These are also very helpful to beginners who are | | | | the list more than the spoon and the funnel. |
| presently relying on their beer making kits with | | | | Homebrew recipes developed through numerous |
| little leeway for experimentation. However, it is | | | | painstaking trial and errors are like trade secrets - |
| much more interesting if you are the one sharing | | | | you don't want it to go out in the open but you |
| your homebrew recipes. To be able to do that, | | | | are too excited and proud of it that it is hard to |
| you have to be daring. And of course, you have | | | | keep it to yourself. |