Special thanks to Ed for coming up with the excellent idea of having several of us homebrewers whipping up the same recipe to see how style and technique affect the final outcome. Also, thanks go out to Greg for hosting the enevt and whipping up some excellent food to accompany these excellent brews.
The good thing was that all the brews turned out to be quite tasty, although amazingly different in taste and aroma. The recipe itself, Northern Brewers’ “Tongue Splitter“, was a highly hopped, high alpha acid ale, and delicious 6x over.
I guess it’s true what they say about beer(and wine), it’s a living thing that has a mind of it’s own. Thankfully, variety is the spice of life, but I can see how tough it could be for a commercial brewery to recreate the exact same flavors with such consistency.
