Re: Beers and Meads
Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2018 3:29 pm
What pisses me off so much about IPA is that it's this dumb counter reaction to watery piss in a very wrong direction. You can't just throw tons and tons of hops into beer to make it taste like something.
North German Pilsener is it's own type of beer, being very light gold and very heavy on hops. You want it to be refreshingly tart and dry without getting bitter or sour. That's a delicate balance that requires careful selection of hops and is an art. Alone come those hipster faggots, dare to call their piss "craft" without knowing the first thing about the craft of making beer, throw hops into the mash like it's going out of style and make undrinkable swill and convince themselves that their lemon sour, bitter swill is actual beer just because, unlike Pabst Blue Ribbon, it tastes like something.
It's like you're trying to ape a Bordeaux cuveé wine and instead of carefully mixing Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon grapes for the mash you just pick several discounter wines and dump them together in a bowl and then claim you've made something artistic.
It honestly makes me mad.
North German Pilsener is it's own type of beer, being very light gold and very heavy on hops. You want it to be refreshingly tart and dry without getting bitter or sour. That's a delicate balance that requires careful selection of hops and is an art. Alone come those hipster faggots, dare to call their piss "craft" without knowing the first thing about the craft of making beer, throw hops into the mash like it's going out of style and make undrinkable swill and convince themselves that their lemon sour, bitter swill is actual beer just because, unlike Pabst Blue Ribbon, it tastes like something.
It's like you're trying to ape a Bordeaux cuveé wine and instead of carefully mixing Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon grapes for the mash you just pick several discounter wines and dump them together in a bowl and then claim you've made something artistic.
It honestly makes me mad.