Tried and True Recipes

[bluenose]

I'm wondering what people think of adding a section to the site for putting their "Tried and True" recipes or maybe even their "Go To"... I like reading the recipes on the list, but some of them are about ones people are about to try for the first time and we have no idea how they turned out and if they're worth repeating or forgetting. Just my $0.02 (I guess we have to round it to $0.00 now)

[dean2k]

Personally, I think this is a great idea. I would love to scab everyone else's go-to brews Also my $0.00

[jacinthebox]

as a new brewer...this is an awesome idea

[RubberToe]

I also like this concept. We could also do this by using a topic prefix and keep all the recipes in the subforum they're in now.

[jtmwhyte]

I was thinking about this over the weekend; great idea!

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[Juniper Hill]

Great idea! As a newby myself, I'd gladly try some tested recipes.

[jacinthebox]

I started a Thread...hoping it gets turned into a sub

[mr x]

I honestly don't have much use for this as a subforum. There's no reason people can't ask about a beer in the original thread.

[jacinthebox]

It would be nice to have a place where people can park recipes they already made (for new brewers like me)...and offer feedback on them.

Sounds like their was some interest from new brewers

[chalmers]

I agree that posting our favourite/go-to recipes for new brewers is a good idea.
If not a subforum, then a prefix [Favourite] or [TriedAndTrue] etc would be nice, to help distinguish from folks posting their test/experimental/failed recipes.

[GAM]

I do agree that having one repository for recipes would be nice. If I'm a indecisive mood I can scroll and pick from the listings. I may not use the actual recipe but the basis would be nice.

Sandy

[adams81]

I just planned on looking for recipes with lots of good replies.

A sub-forum sounds like work. When does a recipe become tried/true? Who decides? Who moves it?

It would be nice if we could somehow rate a recipe... though that's something we can kind of do with replies already. I think I've seen functions like this in forums before, but maybe it's a lot of work to implement.

So the issue is people posting recipes that they've never brewed? What if we went the other way and put an "experimental" tag on recipes that are in the works, or made a sub-forum for experiments? Once the recipe is finished it can be un-tagged or re-posted to the regular recipes forum.

I got a little carried away here I think, lol

[mr x]

But what does 'tried and true' mean? It's not a quantifiable designation. And AFAIK, the vast majority of the recipes in the recipe section are beers that have been brewed. At any rate, do what you want.

[jacinthebox]

I think we are way over thinking this

Brews that you have made and liked...post in that section

Brews that you are going to make, looking for hints and help on a recipe...Don't post in that section

[dean2k]

But what does 'tried and true' mean? It's not a quantifiable designation. And AFAIK, the vast majority of the recipes in the recipe section are beers that have been brewed. At any rate, do what you want.

Unless I'm mistaken, I think the idea behind the OP was place/tag/prefix to share your go-to recipes.

[bluenose]

I think we are way over thinking this

Brews that you have made and liked...post in that section

Brews that you are going to make, looking for hints and help on a recipe...Don't post in that section

Exactly! I've scrolled through the recipe section many times and many sound good, but are the brewers' first attempt at said recipe. I don't have the time to brew every week, so I'd like to have a better chance of success by knowing what I'm going to make has at least been taste tested by someone whose palette isn't sullied by yellow fuzzy water.

If have a recipe that turned out well, or a recipe that you make over and over again, then please feel free to help those of us just getting into recipe development out by posting your recipe in the Tried and True section.

If you don't want to, then salut! If you don't have use for this, then salut! How is it harming you by being there?

[bluenose]

But what does 'tried and true' mean? It's not a quantifiable designation. And AFAIK, the vast majority of the recipes in the recipe section are beers that have been brewed. At any rate, do what you want.

Unless I'm mistaken, I think the idea behind the OP was place/tag/prefix to share your go-to recipes.

I was actually thinking of a sub forum, but your idea could work for me too

[bluenose]

But what does 'tried and true' mean? It's not a quantifiable designation. And AFAIK, the vast majority of the recipes in the recipe section are beers that have been brewed. At any rate, do what you want.

Typical, ask him the time he tells you how to build a clock

[Jimmy]

It's very easy to add a subforum or a topic prefix for "Tried & True" - I'm just not sure how much it differs from the current setup. I'm definitely not brewing a beer based on someone tagging it as "Tried & True"; I'd rather hear from a few others that have tried the beer or brewed the beer...not just the original poster.

Either way, I don't mind adding the prefix or subforum..just not sure if it's really worth it.

[RubberToe]

I think the initial concern was that a lot of the posts in the recipes are recipes that are a work in progress or recently created and not brewed yet. Therefore it could take some time to wade through them all. It might be simplest to add some topic prefixes such as [In Progress] (or nothing), [Brewed], or even [Winner] (although a good recipe is only part of a good brew).

[akr71]

I just planned on looking for recipes with lots of good replies.

Though I think the topic prefixes could work too, but it only works if we use them. There's a shit-ton of excellent recipes already here, so that puts the responsibility on the OP of the recipe to go back and edit the post with the appropriate tag...

of course, you could also try this method too.

[bluenose]

whatever, there's not much point if none of the experienced brewers on here are willing to say "hey guys, you remember that recipe I posted about four months ago and is now buried in the depths of this forum? Well I finally got around to tasting it and it was awesome, here it is because I will definitely brew it again."

Like I said, it was just my $0.00 anyway

carry on

[mr x]

A better solution might be to be able to search recipes by OP.

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[Jimmy]

Need a list of "beer styles" so I can make subforums for each style. I'm adding a "Recipe Database" forum, and within that forum I'm going to have subforums for the different styles. Anyone want to provide a reasonable list of styles?

[Jimmy]

Nevermind. I'm just going with what's in BCS