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Originally Posted by jaydorn
I remember being told on a Wild Rose Brewery tour a few years ago that lagers are generally more difficult to brew all around. More equipment required, less forgiving in terms of contaminants adding additional flavours & such.
Basically dark or heavily hopped ales can are more forgiving to brew as the stronger flavours will cover up some the minor flaws that'll be more apparent in lighter bodied lagers.
The brew master with Brewsters told us most commercial brewers actually have a ton of respect for the big guys like Bud/Molson/Labatt being to able to brew such large batches of lagers with such consistently. It's apparently not an easy thing to do.
But yeah, I'm not gagga over the current IPA craze either, much prefer a nice brown or amber ale myself.
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yeah, the pessimist in me feels like they throw out all the IPA's because they can just hop the #### out of you to mask things.