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RayF wrote:I appreciate all of your statements. There is so much out there that it is hard to decipher opinion from facts. Most of what you have all said I get. My problem is, that it's hard to determine fact from opinion when you are reading things on forums.

This is so true. I think even here we tend to respond with our opinions and sometimes they come across as fact. It's hard to tell. Aside from starting every post with "in my opinion...." that's a tough nut to crack. We should all be cognizant about that, especially when dealing with newer brewers (not saying you are, mind you).

Adding to the conversation topic: I believe that you don't need to bottle condition for 6 weeks to have a great beer*




* This depends on a lot of things, mind you. Fresh ingredients, proper pitch rate and temp control, style of beer, etc. I've made some DME, late addition pale ales (think DME + 15-minute additions of Citra) and they were great 1 week in the bottle. I'm not sure they got better with time, but they were still good with time, too.
Again, for newer brewers using canned extract I would still recommend 4-6 weeks, though.

^ I think this happens a lot with replies to new brewers. I often see on other forums where an experienced brewer wants to pass on every single note of information and experience he has come across in one single reply which often leaves the OP scratching their head and chasing other things than what they originally asked about. lol

We are trendsetters.

"Totally copying this thread idea from another forum.

What unpopular or contrarian opinions do you hold about beer, be it homebrew or commercial?"

On HBT.

John Sand wrote:We are trendsetters.

"Totally copying this thread idea from another forum.

What unpopular or contrarian opinions do you hold about beer, be it homebrew or commercial?"

On HBT.

Hate to burst your bubble there John, but that one on HBT was started a day before this one.

Different time zone?
Russian hacking?
Black hole?

I'll go with the Russians....had to be the Russians!!

John Sand wrote:We are trendsetters.

"Totally copying this thread idea from another forum.

What unpopular or contrarian opinions do you hold about beer, be it homebrew or commercial?"

On HBT.

Link?

bpgreen wrote:

John Sand wrote:We are trendsetters.

"Totally copying this thread idea from another forum.

What unpopular or contrarian opinions do you hold about beer, be it homebrew or commercial?"

On HBT.

Link?

http://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=599157

Yes, I got it from HBT (I couldn't remember which forum when I posted the OP), and it was linked to from an email I got from the AHA.

So there is a conspiracy!

A conspiracy to encourage and promote homebrewing, yeah!

John Sand wrote:

bpgreen wrote:

John Sand wrote:We are trendsetters.

"Totally copying this thread idea from another forum.

What unpopular or contrarian opinions do you hold about beer, be it homebrew or commercial?"

On HBT.

Link?

http://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=599157

Thanks

Brulosophy experiments quite often prove that experienced tasters can't tell the difference when long-cherished homebrew "rules" are broken. Which unpopular opinion would you like to see validated? Take your pick! Any experiment with a p-value above 0.05 -- which is the majority of them -- indicates that the tasters couldn't reliably tell the difference between the two beers they were tasting.

Good Post CC, I've read a lot of their experiments...............