It's really a matter of the quality of the ingredients and the skill of the brewer, not simply extract vs. all grain. If an extract brewer uses quality fresh ingredients, then s/he can compete directly with an all grain brewer, unless the style uses specialty grains that are better off mashed...
When I was at the pub, I hacked into one of those pub electronic gaming machines. I inserted a "Savage Steve is the best" ad into the rotation of regular ads on the box. I then proceeded to drink a lot of beer. End story.
- Steve
Hops rock!
I'm a split brain, though... I'm a hophead and a malt maniac.
I basically just love beer. DFH 60 is my current favorite hoppy beer. Hop whiffing is an addiction-- get used to it!
- Steve
Me (to myself): I really need to go to bed now.
My brain: But you haven't been on HBT for months! You have so much to catch up on! Go ahead and click on your "new posts" bookmark.
Me: My eyelids feel like iron curtains and my brain is all xyxxcnviunewaess.
My brain: Wat?
Me...
I'm having a Charlie Papazian moment tonight. Let me indulge myself for a moment.
I'm drinking some very good homebrew (Ron's Belgian Blonde), breathing some fresh spring air mixed with some amazing incense, listening to some mind expanding Grateful Dead music, and thinking about how...
That sounds disgusting, and I'm not being elitist.
Before you ferment Coca Cola, you should watch this video of someone who tried to make wine out of it:
-Steve
This reminds me of that trippy chapter in one of Papazian's books about wort blobs floating in space, each picking up a different yeast and becoming a different beer, or something like that.
-Steve