nutty_gnome
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Brewed a stout from extract and steeping grains (following a Breiss white labs recipe card from a recent BYO). Recipe is 2 cans of breiss dark lme, one at 60 mins, the other at flameout. Steeping graouns were 1 lb flaked barely, 1lb breiss chocolate, 1/2 lb each munich 10 and roasted barley. A simple bittering addition of warrior and then fuggles at 30 and 10 mins. I used a clean american style yeast. Fermentation went well, it is nicely attenuated.
The trouble is - I kegged it yesterday and it had an acidic twang to it. I couldn't stop thinking about it, so I drew off a sample today and the acidic twang was still there. I dosed a few ounces of beer with a bit of powdered brewing chalk (calcium carbonate) and although the beer turned cloudy, it also tasted much more like a stout and noticeably rounded out that acidic tang.
In a few weeks, I'll revisit the keg and see how things are progressing. I'm wondering if any of you fine folks have dosed finished dark beers/stouts with powders to knock out acidic tastes or improve roundness? Are there any best practices that you can share?
I usually do light/amber beers with salt additions calculated from software and experience. But this one was extract, so I didn't alter the very soft water I used. Live and learn I guess. Any help would be appreciated.
The trouble is - I kegged it yesterday and it had an acidic twang to it. I couldn't stop thinking about it, so I drew off a sample today and the acidic twang was still there. I dosed a few ounces of beer with a bit of powdered brewing chalk (calcium carbonate) and although the beer turned cloudy, it also tasted much more like a stout and noticeably rounded out that acidic tang.
In a few weeks, I'll revisit the keg and see how things are progressing. I'm wondering if any of you fine folks have dosed finished dark beers/stouts with powders to knock out acidic tastes or improve roundness? Are there any best practices that you can share?
I usually do light/amber beers with salt additions calculated from software and experience. But this one was extract, so I didn't alter the very soft water I used. Live and learn I guess. Any help would be appreciated.