Is brewing an art or a science?

That is kind of what I was trying to say but much more eloquently and a much cooler avatar.

 

Brewing craft beer is both (the key world being craft). It requires the creativity and expression of tastes and styles. At the same time it needs calculated and measurable methodologies.

 

It's more than just recipe, a good example of this is stockyard stout at trader joes. This is the same exact recipe as it is a contract brew, how ever it used to be brewed at goose island than it went to Gordon birsch. Once I noticed the change I tried both side beside and they were worlds apart. Gb version is still tasty but the gi version was crazy good.

Another example that comes to mind is midnight sun. Their system is recipes, and the same beers taste crazy different by brewer.

For example TREAT was one of my favorite pumpkin beers since I first tried it. I've had sevrel each year. Over the course of years that beer has changed drastically. I've been told the recipe has not changed, but in trying verticals of that particular beer, gabe and bens version are seriously tastier than the last 3 years and the changes are not simple age.

I think it is an art, even when following the same recipe somewhere along the lines the differences I'm the craft emerge

 

something else entirely!!! man my mind is boggling with the ideas now!

 

It's really just a method of production, but in a much more fun sense it's the delicious culmination of both art and science.

 

both

 

It's both but i'm more into the art side of it. Many brewers approach the science aspect of it. There's different points ov view

 

As a matter of execution, it is a science. As a matter of conception, it is an art. Both can be true.

 

I knew there was some chemistry involved, but ran into Sierra Nevada's new microbiologist at their grand opening. The job entailed keeping the bugs happy in the brew. If you need microbiologists, there is probably science involved to go along with the art.

 

I think the nexus of science and art when sticking with the painting equivalency would be those computer generated pictures from the 90's. Not held in great esteem, certainly bad art but art nonetheless. I also see a similarity between those pictures and the subject at hand. The pictures depended on science to create the art; same as brewing. Dependent on the science to create the art.