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[MolBasser]

An experienced homebrewer that directed me in my early days said I quote" how do you expect to make good beer in less than five weeks, when it takes the BMC ( bud-miller-coors) crowd that long?"

Ales vs. lagers.....If you keg and force carb, you can be drinking an ale in 3 weeks no problem.BrewBasser

[earthtone]

The brewing mistakes I can live with as they are very subject to interpretation.Biochemistry is biochemistry. No excuse for mucking that up.BrewBasser

+1 from someone who is about to go write a second year cell bio exam you get my whole hearted agreement brewbasser!lol we even did a "fermentation lab" that I could have taught

[ThroatwobblerMangrove]

Not to mention that yeast can eat sucrose just fine thank you.I mean the other stuff was just stupid mistakes, nomonclature and such (calling straining your finished wort "sparging" for example), but this time he had the blackboard out and tried to get all scientific, and got it BRUTALLY wrong.The respectometer definately has gone down.BrewBasser

I think Alton is good at food but he's no brewing expert for sure and neither are his associates. He probably would have done well to get the guy from the homebrew shop to act as a consultant for the show and subsequent editing.

[earthtone]

he should've called BrewBasser

[ThroatwobblerMangrove]

he should've called BrewBasser

I'd watch that.

[earthtone]

Hey BrewBasser, so I'm doing this Food Network show and right now I am boiling my grains and I thought we could chat about the inability of yeast to eat disaccharides....hello?did he just hang up?

[DubbelEntendre]

[stellarbrew]

Some of the Georgia brewers have said before that the LHBS he went to was really terrible, and in fact went out of business relatively soon after the show was produced. (It was from 2002.)So yeah, bad consultants.

I wonder if it was Marietta Homebrew Supply. It seems like they closed down around that time. When I used to go there, the selection was sometimes lacking, and the shelves too bare, but I have no complaints about the guy who ran the place. He always seemed to give solid advice and good information. I'm pretty sure he wouldn't have told someone to boil grains.

[hullabrew]

I haven't seen this on tv but I'm pretty sure that this is the episode. In any case,

Edited by hullabrew, 24 April 2009 - 09:10 AM.

[DaBearSox]

I wonder how many letters he received or still does receive, when the show airs, from people like us...

[BrewerGeorge]

I wonder how many letters he received or still does receive, when the show airs, from people like us...

Apparently lots. He had an apology/clarification posted on his site at one time.