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    acidulated malt versus adding wine to your malt

    There was an obscure reference to an 1800s Austrian Beer Style called WEINBIER in the history of brewing. I asked if anyone new about it and actually got routed back to Ray Daniels who could not find anything more about it in his notes. I also really liked the Midas Touch beer Reading...
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    Will astringency age out?

    Is the flavor more dry or bitter? What specific gravity is the beer at? This could be due to the wheat or extract not having as many unfermentable sugars or because the strawberries contained nutrients that helped the yeast ferment more of the sugars. So It could have finished dryer than...
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    How do you avoid a medicinal taste when using ginnger in a beer

    Thanks to all your input I was able to decide on my approach - I smoked a pound of grain and the Ginger over a fire using Grape Vine Prunings as my smoke wood. Basically I have take Papazians Vagabond Ginger Beer recipe and added a mini- mash to it I used 4 oz ginger and cut it in chunks...
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    How do you avoid a medicinal taste when using ginnger in a beer

    I think some others tried to describe it above - In addition to the traditional ginger flavor and nice spicy bite you get in a Non alcoholic Jamaican Ginger beer or the Blandon Fly alcoholic ginger beer from Badger Brewing, there is often a woody -piney herbal flavor that distracts from and in...
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    How do you avoid a medicinal taste when using ginnger in a beer

    How long do you roast it and do you skin and slice it first or grill the whole thing. (All the other input is great as well.) The description of some kinds of lavander and a Piney /bitter woody note may be what I am trying to avoid
  6. R

    How do you avoid a medicinal taste when using ginnger in a beer

    I am not using the right term then. Between the initial general spicy flavor you get with a ginger and the final lingering bite there is another flavor that dominates the middle to end of the taste in many home made ginger beers and not in commercial ones. I have not tasted in any other beer and...
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    How do you avoid a medicinal taste when using ginnger in a beer

    Many home made ginger beers that I have tasted have had medicinal flavor Some have not and the brewers I have talked to do not know why they had it or how the avoided it. The commercial ones I have tasted have not had this flavor just the spicy after taste. Does anyone have a thought??
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