Greatness: always out of reach?

I've been brewing beer a good long while. Making good beer isn't real hard. Almost all the beers I make are good. Great beer is another story.

Feedback is one thing, whether from polite friends who just say the beer is great, or from those with more detailed responses. But then there's my own judgment. Even though my take on my beer is unavoidably subjective and biased, it's the only one that truly matters in the end.

Many of us look for continual improvement: better recipes...

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