Ok, so I made a Pumpkin Pie Spiced Amber Ale, which by the way came out fantastic, I know I will be asked to brew it again, likely sooner than later. Spicing is where the odd thing came in, I made a tincture using 4oz Spiced Rum, 1 vanilla bean scraped and diced, and 2 tablespoons Pumpkin Pie Spice. After about a week, I poured about half of this liquid through a coffee filter and added at kegging, chilled and force carbed for a day or so. I sampled and decided I wanted a touch more spice so filtered the rest of my tincture. I poured what I thought was spices suspended in my remaining liquid into a filter, but plop, out came a giant brown snot wad. I added some beer to it to try and release a little more liquid from the mess, but it didnt break up the booger.
Good news was that I did get enough to put my spicing right where I wanted it, but what the hell caused this snot wad? I picked it out with my fingers to discard, and it was like a sinus infection but brown! Could it have been caused by the sulfating agents listed at the end of the ingredients list on the bottle, or something to do with the vanilla bean, Maybe a combination of both with the addition of the Rum?
Good news was that I did get enough to put my spicing right where I wanted it, but what the hell caused this snot wad? I picked it out with my fingers to discard, and it was like a sinus infection but brown! Could it have been caused by the sulfating agents listed at the end of the ingredients list on the bottle, or something to do with the vanilla bean, Maybe a combination of both with the addition of the Rum?