
Dude: Just curious about the Pub ale, was that the same beer that recieved the negative marks due to diacytel from the national comp? If it is im thinking it was the brown sugar, according to Papazain some judges think the caramel notes from using invert and/or brown sugar is diacetyl (because they dont know better)
If not, can you taste the brown sugar in there? Ive got a bitter im going to make shortly using muscovado sugar which should give it the brown sugar/invert character bitters apparantly have. I dont want too much though, i figure 8 oz.