ClarnoBrewer
Well-Known Member
Here's a kind of strange thing I've done, and I have no idea of the repercussions. I brewed a beer a few months ago, and was just using the single smack-pack method (I'm better now). I had already began brewing and the smack pack failed, as it was pretty much expired and may have gotten too warm. I'm a 4 hour round trip from my LHBS, so my options were to trash the wort, or get creative. So I pitched with bread yeast.
The beer fermented fine, but the final result is a beer that tastes really odd. It's very dry, and kind of metallic. I tried putting a little sugar in a pint of it, and that seemed to help. So I boiled up about 2 cups of brown sugar and dumped it in the keg today. It seems to have taken the edge off of the beer.
Is this sugar addition going to do anything weird? My beer is kept at about 42-45 degrees, so I don't think there should be much yeast activity. Any thoughts? Has anyone else done this?
Thanks!
-Josh
The beer fermented fine, but the final result is a beer that tastes really odd. It's very dry, and kind of metallic. I tried putting a little sugar in a pint of it, and that seemed to help. So I boiled up about 2 cups of brown sugar and dumped it in the keg today. It seems to have taken the edge off of the beer.
Is this sugar addition going to do anything weird? My beer is kept at about 42-45 degrees, so I don't think there should be much yeast activity. Any thoughts? Has anyone else done this?
Thanks!
-Josh