- A Classic - a superlative example of the style.
- Excellent - technically flawless, just short of the kind of character that distinguishes it as as the best in its style.
- Good - a well-made beer that is a fairly common example of its style.
- Average - nothing stands out; beer doesn't have off-flavors, but fails to impress as a good example of its style.
- Not Poisonous - off-flavors mar the recipe.
- Poisonous - off-flavors so profound the beer is undrinkable.
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Homebrewing is appropriate for your scale. Fortunately, I never fared worse than "Not Poisonous".
Hoo boy, I have. My one and only lager effort produced a beer so wrong that even bringing one's nose to it forced a convulsion away, as from hazardous chemicals.
Thus I no longer brew lagers.
(I do, however, have a lambic in the hole...)
I would suggest some derivation of "nasty" instead of poisonous. Poisonous is a stretch for beer, it is rarely harmful to drink (alcohol and headache exceptions of course) and the term poisonous is misleading. As Papazian said, it is nearly impossible to make a beer that actually "hurts" you in the way meant by poisonous.
Just my two cents.
You're right, but it's more entertaining this way. I was aiming for evocative, and as you probably experienced, some off-flavors taste poisonous.
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