Taste Test

[Low Hang'n]

Just did a taste test of our first homebrew (Munich Lager) that we bottled in Jan. Apart from still being a little green it came up OK. Should be a whole lot better in a few weeks. After the bottle capping Olympics we had when bottling this Lager ended up tasting fairly good.

We bottle half with carbonation drops & half with sugar & interestingly the bottles using carbonation drops had more of a softdrink type carbonation feel than the sugar primed ones. The sugar primed bottles definitely tasted better, had more clarity and maintained their head better. Does anyone have any input as to why this is the case?

It will be interesting to see the comparison after a few more weeks.

Cheers
Low Hang'n

 

[DrewCarey82]

About 6 weeks for most kit brews man, try to leave it that long, though no doubt you'll down these ones quickly being your first brew

 

[Low Hang'n]

About 6 weeks for most kit brews man, try to leave it that long, though no doubt you'll down these ones quickly being your first brew

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Yeh, that was the intention but had to give it a taste test to see how our little baby was progressing.

 

[Low Hang'n]

What are carbonation drops made from?

Has anyone else noticed the difference between the use of carbonation drops & sugar for priming. Love to hear your comments. h34r:

 

[DrewCarey82]

Because carbonation drops are of different size(rubbing together during shipping and getting smaller) you'll generally get a better all over result using the ole sugar measure, all of my beers since starting to use castor sugar have been perfect while you'd get many when using carbo drops that have head that dies straight away.

Carbo drops are so much easier but its safer to do it urself.

 

[Charlie]

Have you thought about bulk priming ? Cuts bottling time in half when you don't have to measure out for each bottle ...

... and you don't end up with sugar all over the kitchen floor