noisy123
Well-Known Member
I have a whole 2 batches under my belt so throw back a pound of salt with this. I brewed two extract beers, a nut-brown, and an amber. The hops are different, the amber did not use specialty grains -- same yeast, same hops. The amber (my second brew) is much better. Its crisp and very refreshing. I followed Papazian's advice and used a 5 gallon primary for the amber with a blow-off tube.
It could have been a lot of things that made the second batch better (better technique, personal taste, yada yada) but I really think it was the so-called "extraction of fusel oils from the primary".
I guess I could drink a ton of both on separate nights and see which hang-over is worse but it seemed easier to enquire here. I mentioned this in another thread and folks were calling shenanigans. So does anyone have experience with this? Has anyone done a 10 gallon batch with 5/5 to compare with a control?
It could have been a lot of things that made the second batch better (better technique, personal taste, yada yada) but I really think it was the so-called "extraction of fusel oils from the primary".
I guess I could drink a ton of both on separate nights and see which hang-over is worse but it seemed easier to enquire here. I mentioned this in another thread and folks were calling shenanigans. So does anyone have experience with this? Has anyone done a 10 gallon batch with 5/5 to compare with a control?