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Offline jjflash

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define "West Coast style beer"
« on: March 18, 2011, 04:42:21 pm »
What does "West Coast style beer" mean?
Hoppy beer - exceeding the style parameters?
The type of hop - Cascade, Centennial, etc?
Grapefruit / pine hop flavors / aroma?
What does this term mean?
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Re: define "West Coast style beer"
« Reply #1 on: March 18, 2011, 04:58:27 pm »
I would say the west coast philosophy is "hops, hops and more hops."

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Re: define "West Coast style beer"
« Reply #2 on: March 18, 2011, 05:08:41 pm »
When I think "west coast" I think of Anchor's Steam Beer...
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Re: define "West Coast style beer"
« Reply #3 on: March 18, 2011, 05:18:40 pm »
Here's a thread I started some time ago that debates EC v. WC beer. I think it will help you.

http://www.homebrewersassociation.org/forum/index.php?topic=1045.msg12577#msg12577
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Re: define "West Coast style beer"
« Reply #4 on: March 18, 2011, 10:26:19 pm »
Quote from: bluesman on March 18, 2011, 05:18:40 pm
Here's a thread I started some time ago that debates EC v. WC beer. I think it will help you.

http://www.homebrewersassociation.org/forum/index.php?topic=1045.msg12577#msg12577


Hut dang,
that was a good thread, can't believe I got in on it.

I miss the blatz, and hope all is well with that one.

West Coast style?  Hops, light in color, hops, dry, hops, and hops, and hops.
BTW, now it seems...it is a truely a style and not a region.  That is....the style can now be brewed on the east coast...with "imported" hops.  ;D
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Re: define "West Coast style beer"
« Reply #5 on: March 18, 2011, 10:37:57 pm »
Quote from: dbeechum on March 18, 2011, 04:58:27 pm
I would say the west coast philosophy is "hops, hops and more hops."



And big flavor...nothing subtle.  Big and hoppy, hoppy and big, hoppy and hoppy, big....you get the idea....
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Re: define "West Coast style beer"
« Reply #6 on: March 19, 2011, 06:12:22 am »
The club, not the rapier.
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Re: define "West Coast style beer"
« Reply #7 on: March 19, 2011, 06:22:27 am »
Quote from: tygo on March 19, 2011, 06:12:22 am
The club, not the rapier.

yeah, maybe..... but hops can cut to the bone!
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Re: define "West Coast style beer"
« Reply #8 on: March 19, 2011, 08:43:56 am »
Did anyone mention hops?  ::)

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Re: define "West Coast style beer"
« Reply #9 on: March 19, 2011, 09:22:48 am »
All you westies just like using 4 letter words





in more ways than one ;)




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Re: define "West Coast style beer"
« Reply #10 on: March 19, 2011, 12:21:17 pm »
lots of hops, and a dry crisp finish (with hops), and maybe some more hops and from what I've seen < 10SRM, light to medium light body, but still packs a punch, did we say hoppy?
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Re: define "West Coast style beer"
« Reply #11 on: March 20, 2011, 06:38:03 pm »
If West Coast style is so distinct, will the BJCP ever start a West Coast Style category?
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Re: define "West Coast style beer"
« Reply #12 on: March 21, 2011, 02:24:05 pm »
Don't forget a dash of Chinese mercury and a pinch of Japanese cesium.
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Re: define "West Coast style beer"
« Reply #13 on: March 21, 2011, 02:30:41 pm »
Quote from: pyrite on March 20, 2011, 06:38:03 pm
If West Coast style is so distinct, will the BJCP ever start a West Coast Style category?

Maybe someday.
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