Dried Malt Extract, can you taste it? - Page 2

**the_bird** · 12-02-2010, 05:48 PM

I vote "crazy." Either that, or you need to stop chowing down on the "Whoppers" while getting your drink on.

Clann · 12-03-2010, 11:32 AM

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Originally Posted by the_bird

I vote "crazy." Either that, or you need to stop chowing down on the "Whoppers" while getting your drink on.

Well, I do like whoppers

. SWIMBO says crazy too.

Clann · 12-03-2010, 11:46 AM

@starrfish, I have only tried munton&fisson and briess. Both seem to give me that flavor.

@ChrisS68, It is not really a sweet taste, the NB British Bitter finished at 1.008, but still has that malty "whopper like" taste W/O the chocolate of course.

1 oz kent goldings 60min, 1 oz kent goldings 1min. I can taste the hops in the beer and its not a malty beer (only 3.15lbs LME 1lb DME).

must be crazy

rayg · 12-06-2010, 07:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Clann

It seems like every time I make a brew with DME in it I can taste the dme as a very malty. Not beer malty but more like the malt flavor from a malted milk shake. I cant taste this in any of my beers that have just LME. The last one I made was NBs British Bitter. It only has 1# of DME but I can still taste it. Is it just me, do I have a sensitivity to DME? Anybody else notice this? Or am I just crazy?

Posts like this remind me of when I was a teaching assistant in
organic chem lab. Students would come up to me with a test
tube full of something and ask "What's going on with this?" and
I would say "Well, that looks like one of the billion chemical
substances known to mankind. Can you tell me what part of
the experiment you're at?"

If you could post the exact recipe and process it might be possible
to identify the problem. Otherwise...I go with crazy!

Ray

mixedbrewer · 12-06-2010, 07:34 PM

I like malty flavors in my beer. When you say like a milkshake, do you mean heavy and frothy? Whoppers and milkshakes are made with malted milk... So I am wondering if you mean milky?