Yup! The beer I learned how to drink beer with is no longer one I want drink. Bunch of Trumper dorks. I was so sad when I found this out because I did a tour of the brewery, had a hat, and some anniversary coasters. A lot of cool history with that beer. Now they all sit in a box. I don’t live where it’s sold easily and I don’t drink it when I go back to visit.
I appreciate the sentiment, but I would say putting water in the kettle and pouring it into a cup with a tea bag is pretty different than even the mash boil step I assume you’re talking about. I used to make a lot of kombucha, and even that is a bit of a process if you want it carbonated.
Even all grain brew in a bag can be incredibly simple. Carbonation can be as easy as dropping a tab into a bottle.
But if you want to go even simpler, you can go extract brewing. Open can and pour into water. Heat and pitch yeast.
You’re heating water and adding measured ingredients into it. Fermentation is a wonderful endless rabbit hole but yeasts are so good now that it’s also something that you don’t need overthink.
Like a decade ago, I got into the idea of brewing beer. Didn’t know the first thing about how. So I looked it up on Youtube. First video I saw was this dude who had apparently added a room onto his house, like he walked out what looked like an exterior door into another room full of stainless steel counters and basins and such, and I quit watching about the time he was pouring sacks of barley into a hand-cranked grinder. Then I found a Canadian guy named Craig who was like “I buy this can of goo from the brewery store, you dump it into 5 gallons of hot water, stir it up, ferment it in a bucket for a week, and bottle it.” and that was a bit more my speed.
Fuck Yuengling, bunch of red hat labor crushers.
Yup! The beer I learned how to drink beer with is no longer one I want drink. Bunch of Trumper dorks. I was so sad when I found this out because I did a tour of the brewery, had a hat, and some anniversary coasters. A lot of cool history with that beer. Now they all sit in a box. I don’t live where it’s sold easily and I don’t drink it when I go back to visit.
I stick to homemade cocktails now
Say it ain’t true. Not my beloved yeunglings 😭
Sorry amigo.
https://www.goodbeerhunting.com/sightlines/2016/10/26/yuengling-brewery-wants-trump-to-win-which-is-weird-unless-you-know-aything-about-them
Ugly. And on brand.
Try Lion’s Head! It’s from a nearby brewery that is unionized.
I grew up in the region, and was also disappointed to learn that Yuengling was anti-union.
Ugh seriously? Another brand I liked going on the list sucks.
Take sovereignty into your own hands and brew your own! If you can make tea, you can brew beer.
I appreciate the sentiment, but I would say putting water in the kettle and pouring it into a cup with a tea bag is pretty different than even the mash boil step I assume you’re talking about. I used to make a lot of kombucha, and even that is a bit of a process if you want it carbonated.
Even all grain brew in a bag can be incredibly simple. Carbonation can be as easy as dropping a tab into a bottle.
But if you want to go even simpler, you can go extract brewing. Open can and pour into water. Heat and pitch yeast.
You’re heating water and adding measured ingredients into it. Fermentation is a wonderful endless rabbit hole but yeasts are so good now that it’s also something that you don’t need overthink.
Seriously, I dig the enthusiasm, but I made a cup of tea before bed last night.
Like a decade ago, I got into the idea of brewing beer. Didn’t know the first thing about how. So I looked it up on Youtube. First video I saw was this dude who had apparently added a room onto his house, like he walked out what looked like an exterior door into another room full of stainless steel counters and basins and such, and I quit watching about the time he was pouring sacks of barley into a hand-cranked grinder. Then I found a Canadian guy named Craig who was like “I buy this can of goo from the brewery store, you dump it into 5 gallons of hot water, stir it up, ferment it in a bucket for a week, and bottle it.” and that was a bit more my speed.