Everything looks clean. It’s shiny. You can’t see any dirt. Why not just make the beer? OMT, nods and frowns, but follows your lead. You completely overlook the importance of the cleansing ritual and jump straight into the brewing process. Without properly cleaning the brewing equipment, remnants of past brews and lingering impurities taint this creation. Unaware of the consequences, You proceed with mashing the malted grains and water together.
As the mixture boils, You add hops without considering their proper proportions or characteristics. The result is a chaotic jumble of bitterness and unpleasant flavors. Without the right balance, the hops overwhelm the brew with an extreme bitterness, making it almost undrinkable.
The brewing process continues without any care for temperature control or fermentation duration. You simply let the beer sit and ferment without monitoring the progress or adjusting any factors. The result is an uncontrolled and haphazard fermentation that leads to an excessive production of unwanted sour flavors.
Finally, the day comes for You to taste your creation. Filled with hope and anticipation, you take a sip of the beer you had eagerly crafted. However, what greets your taste buds is an overwhelming disaster. The beer is a sour mess, filled with off-flavors and astringent notes. The unbalanced bitterness from the hops clashed with the overpowering sourness, leaving a lingering unpleasant aftertaste.
You unwittingly created the worst beer ever made, a brew that is far from the magical elixir brewers dream of. The lack of cleaning and attention to detail resulted in a chaotic and unappealing concoction, unfit to be called beer, but in a marketing ploy used by bad brewers everywhere you are able to trick dumb beer drinkers by calling your beer a “SOUR”!
OMT shakes his head in shame. He had such high hopes for you, but instead it turns out you make a good marketing person, but beer making should be left to others.
You feel ashamed. And next time. Clean. Your Equipment.
As punishment, go drink a sour.
THE END.
