https://beer.thegremlyn.com/category/thoughts/ Recent content in Thoughts on Gremlyn's Beer Blog Hugo en-US Sat, 14 Jul 2018 16:49:04 +0000 https://beer.thegremlyn.com/2018/07/14/cant-reseal-mylar-bags-at-home-vacuum-seal-them/ Sat, 14 Jul 2018 16:49:04 +0000 https://beer.thegremlyn.com/2018/07/14/cant-reseal-mylar-bags-at-home-vacuum-seal-them/ Maybe I’m late to the party with this, but it only recently occurred to me. You can easily vacuum seal hops and maintain the benefits of the mylar bag at home! How, you ask? Cut an extra long vacuum bag, drop your mylar bag full of hops in it, and vacuum seal that! If you … https://beer.thegremlyn.com/2016/05/13/black-ipa-ipa-variants/ Fri, 13 May 2016 12:00:17 +0000 https://beer.thegremlyn.com/2016/05/13/black-ipa-ipa-variants/ I’m getting on my soapbox again with this post, and it seems my opinion isn’t the most popular, but I really don’t understand how a Black IPA can be a thing. Not every hoppy beer has to be an IPA! https://beer.thegremlyn.com/2015/08/17/irrational-dislike-of-breweries-or-beers-based-on-labels-or-names/ Mon, 17 Aug 2015 18:00:58 +0000 https://beer.thegremlyn.com/2015/08/17/irrational-dislike-of-breweries-or-beers-based-on-labels-or-names/ Do you ever have a feeling that you know is entirely baseless, but you can seem to shake it? Worse yet, you don’t even know why your bias exists? I have this problem, and very specifically with certain beer labels. While shopping for beer, if I see a label with a human or humanoid face … https://beer.thegremlyn.com/2015/08/06/dank-as-an-ipa-descriptor/ Thu, 06 Aug 2015 17:57:32 +0000 https://beer.thegremlyn.com/2015/08/06/dank-as-an-ipa-descriptor/ Am I the only person that feels like ‘dank’ is not a valid term to describe an IPA? Unless I misunderstand the origin, it comes to us from pot culture, where I guess dank is a good thing. I’m not sure how it could ever be a good thing because all it does for me …