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| Posted by Barry on 2016-03-04 09:57:09 |
| Archie Bunker? Had to look that one up. Then remembered that he was the central figure in 'All in the Family', which was based loosely on British TV's ''Til Death do Us Part', with Archie Bunker the equivalent of Warren Mitchell's Alf Garnett. I've never seen 'AIl etc.' but the clips on YouTube seem as unpleasant as 'Til Death', which was meant to be satirical but was just nasty (who remembers Anthony Booth's supposed 'socialist' comments nowadays, which were supposed to add balance? - incidentally, he was Tony Blair's brother-in-law). Now, if I was on a short fuse, I might get annoyed at such a comment but, knowing Mark, no chance. I wasn't really intending to be 'hurling insults', though maybe my language was a bit strong - comes to having too much time, having been incarcerated by a heavy cold (no golf!). The point that I was trying to make was that there is an infinite possibility for experimentation using the basic beer ingredients and, thus, I just don't understand why it is necessary to start adding things. If you want to produce different flavours, it's quite possible without adding adjuncts but takes more time and care - thus my comment about laziness. Re incompetence, well, it's linked to the same train of thought. To my mind, a competent brewer will work his/her way through the possibilites without resorting to strange additives. As for the fruit flavoured beers, such as kriek, not my favourites but I can understand why it was done in the lambic tradition. All this is just my train of thinking, not compulsory for others! Also, as regards to your own brewing: that's absolutely fine, why not, you're not a professional brewer, just someone who likes to try out different things? Seriously, I wonder whether some of these brewers actually like the taste of beer. Maybe it's just that western society seems to increasingly favour sweet things (hardly surprising with the amount of sugar added to manufactured products) but, then, how do we explain the current obsession with highly hopped (overhopped?) IPA's? Can't get my head around this! Good point about oatmeal but it is a grain and, anyway, doesn't seem to have been that regularly added to British beers. I suppose that I'm a bit of a fan of the Reinheitsgebot in principle (shame that it doesn't seem to work so well in practice). |