Dry Or Liquid?

[kevo]

Hey everyone,

I'm a partial brewer, I recently made a big hoppy IPA. Mini mash in the oven, then bumped up with a good bit of extract - all liquid.

The hop character is just what I wanted but it has the dreaded extract twang right up the front.

I'm aware of being careful with the age of liquid extract, but on the whole which extract a better option in terms of flavour quality and avoiding the dreaded twang - dry or fresh liquid??

Are there particular brands which people have had particulary good experiences with or especially poor results from?

Cheers

Kev

 

[milpod]

Always tasted it doing extract,no matter how fresh,what brand.As I added more grains or dried malt extract found it got better.

The best I found was using a mixture of dried malt extract and grains.Leave the tins on the shelf and hop it yourself.

Although I did get one 28kg tin of unhopped liquid malt extract,that made some fantastic brews

 

[mika]

Forum user DeeBee (WA dude) was the extract king over here for a while. I think his advice was to let it sit on the yeast cake for quite a while after the beer was finished, let the yeast do all the clean up work and get those last1 or 2 pts. I don't recall the whole details, maybe ping him a PM