So I've been meaning to post about this for a while but am just getting around to it...
A few years ago I was out with some friends at some college bar. I didn't feel like a BMC and I hadn't ever tried sam adams summer ale before so I gave it a shot (the one token 'craft' beer that they had on tap).
I tried it and tasted a cooked ham flavor (yes, like a honey ham that you eat at christmas but not quite as sweet). This flavor came in maybe 1/2 to 3/4 of the was through the flavor progression and, while not super strong, really interfered with the hops and was annoying enough that I couldn't just ignore it. I got one or two of my BMC drinking friends to give it a try but they all just told me I was imagining things and to shut up and drink my beer.
I'm usually pretty darn good at picking out specific flavors (including off flavors) but this one had me straight up stumped. The only thing I could think of was possibly some weird interaction with a dirty keg line (like I said, this was a college dive bar).
Thoughts? Has anyone else ever tasted a ham-like flavor in a beer (or for that matter brewed a ham beer--we are homebrewers after all :rockin?
A few years ago I was out with some friends at some college bar. I didn't feel like a BMC and I hadn't ever tried sam adams summer ale before so I gave it a shot (the one token 'craft' beer that they had on tap).
I tried it and tasted a cooked ham flavor (yes, like a honey ham that you eat at christmas but not quite as sweet). This flavor came in maybe 1/2 to 3/4 of the was through the flavor progression and, while not super strong, really interfered with the hops and was annoying enough that I couldn't just ignore it. I got one or two of my BMC drinking friends to give it a try but they all just told me I was imagining things and to shut up and drink my beer.
I'm usually pretty darn good at picking out specific flavors (including off flavors) but this one had me straight up stumped. The only thing I could think of was possibly some weird interaction with a dirty keg line (like I said, this was a college dive bar).
Thoughts? Has anyone else ever tasted a ham-like flavor in a beer (or for that matter brewed a ham beer--we are homebrewers after all :rockin?