DU99
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18-20 for ale..look around for black rock malt kits unhopped light and wheat some us 05 mosiac hops bit of speciality grain and you have a beer3 kit beers at 25-30C ferment temp/fermented at 25-30+C
18-20 for ale..look around for black rock malt kits unhopped light and wheat some us 05 mosiac hops bit of speciality grain and you have a beer3 kit beers at 25-30C ferment temp/fermented at 25-30+C
Mate your ferment temp wil add more bad flavours than any thing else.Forget the brown sugar, the other two sugars are the same.SnakeRider said:Just read this, going to revive as I have done 3 kit beers at 25-30C ferment temp, and done the following experiment on them all...
I bottled 12 330ml bottles, 4 primed with carbonation drops, 4 with caster sugar, and 4 with brown sugar....
my first beer was horrible... rocket fuel... didn't take notes but holy hell, never doing a mangrove jacks blonde again...
my second 2 were identical coopers sparkling ale with a 'cold pack'/brew enhancer fermented at 25-30+C primed the same way.
I just had the first taste of my second batch (at 10 days),
drank a 330 of each carbonation drop, caster sugar, and brown sugar primed bottles... and here is my conclusion for both batches (took notes on the first batch)..
The carbonation drops have a definite twang in comparison to both other priming methods... its terrible, I can even smell the twang.
The caster sugar is slightly better, not as much fruity punch on the tongue, and less smell
and the brown sugar is actually quite enjoyable, but still there is a twang (at 10 days no surprise)
now... before I jumped to this conclusion, on separate days on the last batch I drank them in different orders to eliminate the 'pissed now, its all good, keep em coming' variable off the table. I still came to the same conclusion.
*shrugs* I believe priming medium does make a difference, as a result of this controlled experiment, even though I am a complete novice, I have proven to myself that this is not a myth as stated above.
my 2C :chug:
SR
my temps are already sorted dude... 5 days in to my first controlled temp ferment. that was not the point of the experiment. as for 1 thing at a time... changing ONLY THE PRIMING MEDIUM is a pretty good representation of that.... not sure how much of a small change I could do on a single batch. but i am very open to suggestionsScooby Tha Newbie said:Mate your ferment temp wil add more bad favors than any thing else.Forget the brown sugar, the other two sugars are the same.
If your just starting then you only need to worry about two things cleaning your equip. and ferment temp.then its a matter of FG if your bottling .
Ive found that there is so much info out there that its easy to get confused.
Change only one thing at a time.
That should be FERMENT TEMP.
"my first beer was horrible... rocket fuel... didn't take notes but holy hell, never doing a mangrove jacks blonde again..."
Brewed at anything above 16/18c i dont doubt it.
[SIZE=11.818181991577148px]Lifes to short to invest time in making rubbish,get your temp correct your beer will be better![/SIZE]
excellent idea with the forced carb caps. never heard of them but will ask at my home brew shopAndrewQLD said:It's possible that the molasses flavour in the brown sugar primed bottles actually helped hide some of the twang whereas the flavor neutral carb drops and sugar didn't.
What would be better would be to brew the beer at a reasonable temp of 20° and then prime the same way again and see if the sugar or carb drops gave a twang, I would also force carb a few bottles with a carbonation cap and some co2 to give you a sugarless base to compare them too.
copper tunJDW81 said:What brand are your carb drops? I'm not going to get into the debate about whether they leave a twang or not, but I had a bag of drops recently that ruined my beer's head retention. Might have been a crappy batch of drops.
Mr sensitive.SnakeRider said:Forgive me guys,
I will not post my findings on a controversial topic ever again.
Well, this topic is disheartening, I have been studying for the last month or so before I make my first kit brew, so I could be spot on and make a fine beer. I have invested in a good system and premium ingredients, now I have to venture in knowing it won't be all that good & have a Twang, no matter what I do, then why bother, this sucks. I may just wait a while longer or just give up..Jeez!!
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