Questions tagged [flavor]
Flavor controls taste - one of the main human senses.
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Why do my fresh fruit wine's finish with no body or flavor
I've asked this question before and tried the only suggestion I received. My last batch of strawberry/peach was only marginally better by freezing the fruit prior to brewing. I do better using ...
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How can I use artificial flavors when making homemade hard seltzer?
I have some expreience in home brewing but I want to try something different this time. I want to make hard seltzer by fermantation. There are some recipes over the internet but I could not find any ...
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Adding Additional Pumpkin To My Porter
I'm brewing a extract Pumpkin Porter kit and just transferred from primary to secondary. I tasted it and I could taste the spices but was wondering if it was too late to pumpkin it up a little. Could ...
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Microbial interactions: biotransformations and food/drink science
I am looking for a good, in-depth source on biotransformations (think food science). For example, fermenting black tea and sugar with wild yeast and bacteria (kombucha):
Wild yeast ferment sucrose ...
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After I eat some foods beer tastes weird?
I'm an obsessive home brewer. So I'm always trying to critically evaluate the flavour of beers I make with a view to constantly improving their quality. In particular I am searching for off-flavours, ...
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Why do my spice flavors disappear when my beer is chilled?
I recently brewed a second batch of Christmas ale, which was spiced with cinnamon, ginger, clove and nutmeg. I put a bottle in the fridge last night and tried it, but only a small amount of spice came ...
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Storage Temperature
My primary fermentation and bottle conditioning temperatures are well controlled in a brewing fridge. Once bottles are conditioned / carbonation cycle complete I move them to crates which I store in ...
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Sour beer over herbed with Basil
Just brewed a sour with Basil thrown in at flameout. Now 6 weeks into the fermenter with WLP648 there's not much sourness and a bit (overwhelming) flavour of Basil.
I was wondering what my options ...
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Using fresh fruit for wine
I've recently been attempting to use fresh fruit to flavor my wines and have had disastrous results. The recipes I've found and copied all say to remove the fruit from the must after around 7 days and ...
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Blending different apple varieties for hard cider (uk)
Has anybody experimented with blending different varieties of apple for "hard cider"?
Locally I have an apple variety called "Blenheim Orange" and also an unidentified cider apple. Using just the ...
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How do I use Honey Malt?
I hope this isn't too stupid a question. (I am a "noob")
I wanted to experiment with some additional flavourings in my latest brew, and was pondering using Honey Malt, such as this.
But can someone ...
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Adding extra ingredients/flavouring: what stage should I add?
I am stil fairly new to homebrewing; on my third batch of real ale now, and I wanted to experiment with adding a few extra things to my brew: some elderflowers, and miscellaneous herbs.
My idea was ...
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What is a good time frame for aging cider/apple wine?
I am planning on tasting my cider in the fall (6 months from pitching
yeast) and seeing how the flavor is then. How much would the flavors
improve aging for a year? 2 year? 5? 10? At what point ...
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How does chilling my wort slowly affect the taste of my beer?
When I started brewing I used a plate chiller to chill my wort. I didn't like the process, and now I add cold water after the whirlpool and to get the wort down the last 10°C I put into my ...
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Adding fruit to beer
I'd like to give orange flavor and smell to my batch. When do you think is the best time to add it? Is it best to add orange while the wort is boiling or add it to primary fermentation? Thank you for ...
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Kegging an 11% stout
Stupid question...but I am making an 11% stout with bourbon oak added. I have never kegged anything higher than a 7% so not sure what to expect.
Will the higher abv allow it to last longer in the ...
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How to improve my homemade Hooch
I've been making home hooch for about a year now. I put lots of sugar, let it get almost hot, add a good amount of yeast and wait. I put it in 5 liter plastic jugs with the cover not screwed on.
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Belgian funk taste
Have made a couple of beers with Belle Saison yeast and have seen a couple of posts about this and other belgian yeast producing funky flavor. After having tasted my own beer I have to agree, there is ...
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Beer way too bitter. What should I do?
When I planned my last batch (my 4th, so I'm pretty inexperienced) using Beersmith for a single hop IPA, I realised that the IBU I got from the recipe was way to low. So I adjusted the recipe and ...
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How necessary are specialty malts in an extract brew?
I'm planning on doing some SMaSH beers; mainly so that I can get more used to the characteristics of the various hop varieties; and also maybe keep the cost down a bit while I'm experimenting. Up to ...
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Why is lemon zest undetectable in my beer?
I brewed a saison and added lemon zest for the last five minutes of the boil. At the time, it seemed like a lot of lemon zest, but I was following a recipe. The beer was in primary for a week, ...
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Hop Bags, What are the Advantages?
So I am sort of new at this. I ordered some hop bags as an add on item but have not yet used them. In the past I always dropped my hop pellets right into the boiling wort. But I plan to make a ...
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Grape-like flavors in beer
A local brewery has a Scottish ale that I love which had a really interesting, though subtle, grape flavor (somewhere between Concord grape and artificial grape). I'm fairly certain I've noticed the ...
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Off Flavors in all of my Homebrewing attempts
I'm pretty new to the homebrewing world, and so far I've done three 5 gallon batches. The first was a prebuilt kit (Pale Ale), the second was a recipe I concocted (IPA), and the third was a recipe I ...
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How to Get Grape Jelly Flavor in Porter?
Brewed an All Grain Peanut Butter Porter using Pb2 and I am looking to get some grape jelly flavor in there.
I used east Kent Goldings at 60, and that was it with a Belgian Ale yeast.
Couldn't ...
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What influences the finishing taste in your beer?
The beers that I tend to really like have that pleasant finishing taste before the after taste. What influences a beer's finish?
I'd like to take some styles that I like that leave a little bit to ...
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Boosting a recipe for longer shelf life
I made a lot of beers last summer, and I realize that I made more than I could/would drink. Some (if not most) of my beers don't age well (at basement temperature of 18°C), although they were great ...
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Flat, weak finish to my homebrew. Sign of it being young?
I bottled my homebrew a week ago - TrueBrew Bavarian Hefeweizen. Yesterday I popped a bottle to make sure it was carbonating, and for a sneak preview. I was pleasantly surprised with the aroma and ...
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Peaches in Cider
I have about 8 jars of peaches in light syrup I bought from Costco.
I want to add these to a 5 gallon batch of Cider. I'm going to a peach cobbler flavored cider. I'm also planning on adding brown ...
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Adding graham cracker flavor to a pumpkin ale
Has anyone had any luck/experience using graham crackers in a pumpkin ale recipe? I've seen some people using graham cracker "extract" with some luck, however, I'm referring to using actual graham ...
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Adding flavouring to fermented cider
I have almost finished the first fermentation of my 2nd cider kit, I took a SG reading yesterday and it comes in around 7% (1.064 > 10.11). While I have no problem with it being strong, this and the ...
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Maximizing fruitiness from WLP002
I am looking to reproduce an incredible fruity aroma and flavour from a recipe I made a year ago. Looking at the recipe I am guessing it may be from the yeast.
3lb 2row
1lb Rye
.13oz nugget @ 60 min
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At what point in fermentation does temperature no longer influence flavour?
I often read about ramping up the temperature to increase yeast activity and attenuation towards the end of fermentation. I used to have some really funky tasting brews before I started strict ...
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Where does the grape flavor/aroma come from in dark beers?
I did two different dark beers, a rauchbier and a imperial stout, and noticed a grape aroma and flavor in them. The fermentables that there're in common are: pilsen, flaked oats, caramalt and black ...
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what have i made and is it safe to drink?
I made a DIY CO2 system for my fish tank. I use fermentation for the CO2. 2 and a half weeks ago I filled a 2ltr soda bottle with water, 2 cups of demerara sugar and a tsp of bakers yeast. This wasnt ...
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Any way to Flavour a Cider crafted with Baking yeast? [duplicate]
I'm very new to brewing, and I'm making a couple test batches of cider as we speak. However my accessibility to things like wine or champagne yeast, so i'm stuck with baking yeast.
My question is ...
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My beer has little to no hop flavour or bitterness. What is going wrong?
Extract brew. 23L boil.
Summit - 60 min boil approx. 125g,
Glacier - 30 min boil, approx. 75g,
NZ Wakatu - 15 min boil, approx. 50g.
All fresh hops, vacuum sealed.
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Specific and generic questions from a first timer - size of fermenter, flavoring, gravity, sanitation
I just brewed my first ever German Weizen (using True Brew kit) on Saturday (today is Monday) and it's sitting in a plastic 6 gallon bucket (but there's only 5 gallons of it). I have some questions ...
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Bitter orange and scaling
I'm getting ready to make my first Saison (all grain). This will be the first beer I've made that uses any kind of spice. The recipe I'm using is for a 5g batch. I'll be making a 20g batch. The 5g ...
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Maintaining Optimal Flavor in a Brown Ale
I've brewed a lot of Brown Ales, and one thing I have noticed from batch to batch is fairly swift flavor degradation.
The beer will taste excellent after two weeks of conditioning. I'll be able to ...
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"Focus on Flavor" Column
I am trying to locate copies of a complete set of Scott Bickham's "Focus on Flavors" column in Brewing Techniques, which seems like it was a journal or magazine in the 1990s.
The question is can ...
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What's the best technique to add chamomile?
I've made a Witbier with tangerine peel and coriander. Though Randy Mosher's Radical Brewing suggests chamomile as a good "secret ingredient" for Witbiers, I didn't have any on hand when brewing, so i ...
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What makes a cider/wine turn watery after a few months?
I made a cider with the below recipie and I have noticed that as it ages it is starting to get a watery taste.
What would cause this? The bottles are stored out of sunlight and are never moved till I ...
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What characteristics would agave nectar add to a wort?
I was thinking about adding agave nectar to my wort as an adjunct sugar, with the intent to add some tequila-like flavor. Does anyone have any experience with brewing with agave nectar and the flavors ...
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Juniper berries for brewing pale ales
I love the aroma of Juniper and want to feature it in my next pale ale. I'm currently extract/kit brewing, and I had a few questions about how to go about this:
I read some tips about adding to ...
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What ingredients would be most appropriate to prototype new flavors in a Randall?
I'm wondering about using a Randall the Enamel Animal to experiment with flavor combinations before mixing up a whole batch.
For example, obviously the flavor of hops comes out nicely with one of ...
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Chemical characteristics of taste
I know this is probably a quirky question for this forum, but here goes. I'm getting into home brewing, and today I stumbled a cross the website for American Society for Brewing Chemists (ASBC) http://...
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Need a non-alcohol brew without the sacrifices. (besides the obvious)
I brewed a pomander inspired wit beer for the holidays. It is currently in primary. Since my wife just had gall badder surgery, she is avoiding alcohol for a little while and asked if I could brew her ...
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Questions about adding vanilla
I'm on my third brew.
Midwest brewing irish red in bottles
Midwest brewing brown nut ale in secondary
Just bought Brewers Best milk stout.
I pretty much wanted to be a little creative without ...
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Adding flavour to standard kit
Looking for some advice, I have been home brewing from kits for a couple of years and really enjoy the hobby. I have experimented with various sugar's to alter the taste and would now like to move on.
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