Homebrew Dogmas: Kill Your Darlings, Darlings
Tuesday, August 4th, 2020
In the amateur brewing community we have a legacy of furphies and dogmas passed down through the years. A lot of those misunderstandings are based around the premise that we’re replicating professional brewing environments at scale; some are based on historic misunderstanding about chemistry or inputs; others, a lack of science that has been corrected over time, or experimentation that has proven that the dogma doesn’t hold true.
This is where I really do enjoy the input of people like Drew Beechum and Denny Conn from Experimental Brewing, Marshall Schott and the contributors at the Brulosophy podcast, and Ricky The Meadmaker from Groenfell Meadery with his ongoing video series Ask The Meadmaker.
And I owe many thanks to the authors of a growing number of books, articles and papers and presentations (like the Chemistry of Beer course from the University of Oklahoma) who constantly offer insight into the chemistry of beer and brewing. Because, I’m a geeky kind of guy… if I just wanted beer I would have stuck to the beer kits and kept it all simple.
