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A comment on So You Think You Want to Open a Brewery (2014). Parent comment
Microbrewers don't actually think that.
The reason that a lot of them flood their beer with hops, is because:
1. It is extremely difficult to brew consistent batches of beer, week after week, month after month.
2. The extreme bitterness of hops masks the taste of pretty much everything... Including the inconsistencies.
So even if they aren't papering over actual errors in the brewing process, they are papering over inconsistencies.
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Microbrewers don't actually think that.
The reason that a lot of them flood their beer with hops, is because:
1. It is extremely difficult to brew consistent batches of beer, week after week, month after month.
2. The extreme bitterness of hops masks the taste of pretty much everything... Including the inconsistencies.
So even if they aren't papering over actual errors in the brewing process, they are papering over inconsistencies.