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Originally Posted by El Diablo
OAF,
Beer-making shares a lot of similarities with cooking. Many centuries old traditions/conventional wisdom/best practices in cooking have been shown to be inferior to new methods over the past decade or two thanks to advances in food science and technology. There's nothing magical or special about making beer; it's another process that can be improved through advances in knowledge.
Blo,
Some processes, not all. Even then these innovations can turn out to be highly faddsih, one decade is all about this innovation is the best, next decade those innovations are revised as mistakes and back to the old school is the new school.
Also its not like European brewing traditions stand still, of course they innovate in process, the point is they have a much much deeper cultural understanding of the point of the process, of what is trying to be achieved via that process, of the destination. This is just simply lacking in Yank beer culture, and the comments you and CC3 have made clearly illustrate your lack of comprehension.
Many American beers taste of innovation, like someone has tried a new idea, an experiment. The thing is most of the time it tastes like a failed experiment.
Last edited by O.A.F.K.1.1; 07-08-2018 at 03:52 PM.