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had this old off flavour taste experience rear its head in my most recent brew and I am trying to pinpoint the cause though my no 1 candidate is that I am using old grain... more than one year stored in the tropics.
I'd not brewed for a year while shifting and building a new house and was not keen to dump all my ingredients so gave my first brew a shot with old ingredients. the result was for the most a decent beer in terms of most characteristics except for a mild but dank , treacle, golden syrup type taste at the end... it straight away reminded me of the kit twang I used to experience before AG days.
Going to try and lager it out but my experience tells me I am wasting my time bin it and start afresh.
malt was a bout a year + old but seemed ok. yeast was s-189 also around 18 mths on a repack by Craftbrewer.
So if the theory on kit twang ie older they are the more pronounced the twang, does anyone have the same experience with grain.. ?
I'd not brewed for a year while shifting and building a new house and was not keen to dump all my ingredients so gave my first brew a shot with old ingredients. the result was for the most a decent beer in terms of most characteristics except for a mild but dank , treacle, golden syrup type taste at the end... it straight away reminded me of the kit twang I used to experience before AG days.
Going to try and lager it out but my experience tells me I am wasting my time bin it and start afresh.
malt was a bout a year + old but seemed ok. yeast was s-189 also around 18 mths on a repack by Craftbrewer.
So if the theory on kit twang ie older they are the more pronounced the twang, does anyone have the same experience with grain.. ?