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NHC Second Rounders...Batch or Fly Sparge?

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roguejim:
Just curious as to what sparge method you used to reach the NHC second round.  It might interesting to note what style you brewed.  If you used some "hybrid" method, how about giving a brief description.

jeffy:

--- Quote from: roguejim on June 19, 2012, 11:34:23 am ---Just curious as to what sparge method you used to reach the NHC second round.  It might interesting to note what style you brewed.  If you used some "hybrid" method, how about giving a brief description.

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I have a smoked beer and a bock in the finals this year.  Both were fly-sparged.
You may want to add the choice of extract (vs. all-grain).
Do you hope to find more of one method than the other?  I think that would only show which is more popular, not which one makes better beer.

roguejim:
I don't "hope to find" anything.  Just curious.  I doubt anything can be determined conclusively from this.  Also, I posted this in the All Grain subforum since that's how I brew, and I have zero interest in extract beer making (I can't bring myself to call it "brewing"...sorry).

morticaixavier:

--- Quote from: roguejim on June 19, 2012, 01:20:29 pm ---I don't "hope to find" anything.  Just curious.  I doubt anything can be determined conclusively from this.  Also, I posted this in the All Grain subforum since that's how I brew, and I have zero interest in extract beer making (I can't bring myself to call it "brewing"...sorry).

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you can't really call it brewing unless you malted the grain yourself. so much of the flavour is developed in that step. come to think of it you can't really call it brewing unless you GREW the grain youself, that's where the terroir develops. Course, to be really hands on you gotta capture your own yeast, grow, malt, and kiln your own grain, grow, and dry your own hops. manufacture your own equipment from raw materials...

extract is brewing, it's just not mashing. Now that I have all that snark out of my system I can sort of agree that when I brew extract it feels like cheating a little. and I don't like that I didn't have any control over the mashing process. luckily I feel like very talented experts did the mash for me.

hopfenundmalz:
None made it to the second round this year. In the previous 3 years I had beers in the final round. Those were all fly-sparged.

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