Paula wrote:Hahaha, if one can cook, one can brew beer. I'm a pretty good cook. I guess few women like to make beer, but I enjoy creating things, and it's a fun hobby to do with my husband.
I also figure that if there's a method that exists that is very, very simple and still gives excellent results, why one earth would anyone want to intentionally complicate things with unnecessary equipment and steps? I have a feeling that Americans in general just like to acquire "stuff" and seem to ENJOY complicating matters. I prefer keeping life simple.
BIAB is going to be the perfect solution for me to get into all grain. All-grain brewing is also much cheaper for us compared to extract brewing. That, combined with the beautiful simplicity of BIAB, is what made me decide to switch over and try BIAB.
Nice post Paula. "Beautiful simplicity of BIAB," is a quality phrase as it has so much truth in it.
But, I think you are putting you and your fellow Americans down when you talk about a tendency to complicate matters. It's nice of you to do so but I think
many of us brewers, regardless of nationality, enjoy complicating matters. I have certainly done it and have a room full of plastics and plumbing to prove it

. Sometimes idiots like me have to go through all the complexity to realise that simplicity
is beautiful.
Looking forward to more of your posts Paula and I am sorry I didn't reply earlier but I was a bit worried about ianb's post above where he says he has been enjoying sampling different, "bears," for what I think, in any nationality, must be quite an inappropriate number of years

.
I have personally never, 'sampled,' a bear but ianb, L2wis, eeyore, mcgrec and redm18, welcome to the forum and I'll look forward to your fetishes whether they be about bears or beers.

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