Touche mon frer.
Good 'cuz theres none coming your way!
Just to play devil’s advocate (not a direct comment on weaz’s experience). Personally I’ve always liked the brewers who were willing to discuss beer but I’ve never asked a brewer for their recipe. Cheers, j
1. Brewers who don’t feel like divulging their recipe might be thinking about the blood sweat and tears that went into the brewery to make that recipe possible for your consumption.
2. Half the fun in homebrewing could/should be from recipe formulation. How cool would it be to figure her beer out, fix the issue and bring her a better version of her own beer? If she asks what you did differently tell her to sit and spin. ;D (or make a stink of being the better person and tell her) I may start doing this with one of the brewpubs in my area.
3. Recipes aren’t the ultimate ingredient? Is this why all the beers of the world are made from briess pale, c40, cascade @ 60 min and California ale yeast? This thought reminds me of the people who learned how to play half of “stairway to heaven” and then declared that page really wasn’t that good of a guitarist. To copy (imitate) is not the same as to create.
You jest, but I bet that’s the basis for her (and 80% of brewpubs’) IPA. People can tweak and innovate, but most of brewing relies on what others have done for many years. The process is at least as important.
Well it could be that she doesn’t like the weaze. Anybody else asks it like “sure!” but the weaze gets the cold treatment. :-\
+1 I’m guessing he wasn’t looking at her eyes when he asked the question.
What?!? Doesn’t she know who he thinks he is? ;D No biggie dude, carry on…
Perhaps had he actually not been wearing pants he would have gotten the recipe.
I’m with the major on this one. 
how do we know he WAS wearing pants?
I think the Weaze is wise to say he’ll go back…maybe he’ll get the full story on why the brewer kicked back such a mean-spirited response. Bad day? Bad past experience with homebrewers? Or maybe The Weaze looks like some past boyfriend that stomped on her heart? Who knows.
At least going back and having a few pints may give an answer…just be sure to share it with us when you get one! ( Hey, some of us don’t have lives and depend on the Forum for fun…not me, but maybe some of us ;D)
Am I allowed to post this here? Hope so…not a shameless plug, just want you guys to see what a cool place it really is. It really is a great place. Just a little bummed at the brewer.
I went to that brewpub over the summer. I had a sampler assortment of all of their beers and agree that the IPA was decent (I really liked the midnight satin and the belligerent ass nut brown). I agree with others to not be upset with her. It’s no big deal that she doesn’t want to share.
J
Barliman, would you share the results of your spruce beer when consumed? I have been thinking of gathering some Engleman tips in late spring for a brew.
Where ya from? Next time you’re in town we’ll hit the place up together, and burn it to the ground! Hopefully by then, I’ll have Pocatello’s finest swill on tap in the mancave too. We can have of few of them, after we drain hers.
Yeah, I jest. Do you think there are more homebrewers that -
- understand the basic science behind brewing yet lack creative ability or
- more homebrewers that are “creative” yet lack the process skills they would need to make a great beer
I’m always curious of how other people have approached homebrewing. Weaze, I’m jealous; the place does look like a decent place to hang out. Cheers, j
Or she’s loony…
I’ve met The Weaze, and he’s good dude. He just hasn’t been to Leon’s enough lately.
Gonna be in Ohio from the 29th of march till the 13th of april. Maybe we can meet somewhere.
Maybe she doesn’t like bacon breath.
bouef…
I’ve met chefs who are the same way; some have recipes preprinted to hand out, others wouldn’t share a recipe if you tore their fingernails off.
No big ting bruddah…
Am I the only one that would NOT expect someone that’s trying to make a living brewing beer to give me their recipe, and if they DO I think that’s above and beyond?
Ok (am I the only woman on this thread?) here’s my approach.
Say ok, you understand. No pressure. No furrowed brow. Use your best Sensitive Man face.
Come back and have the beer a couple more times. Talk about how you like it. Don’t get smarmy. Say something technical, like how you think it might be the early additions of the X hops that really make this beer, and does she have any suggestions for brewing something like it?
Pro tip: do not hint that you think you can improve on her recipe or brewing technique.
If she doesn’t give you the recipe, move on. You’ve already stated to us (and perhaps to her, if she reads boards) that you don’t think it’s superlative; in a world with great recipes, you believe you can find better. Likewise, she may be holding out with whom she shares her recipes.
Good luck!