Me and a buddy of mine have been brewing "experimental" batches about 1 Friday per month, comparing yeasts, dry hops, etc... And it has been going so-so. Many of our small batches have been disgusting. Not our full 5 gallon forced carb'd batches, just the little bottled batches. We tried to isolate the issue. Water, maybe freezer burnt hops, extract "twang", and finally we found out it was the carbonation drops, after splitting one batch with priming sugar and one batch with carb drops.
Disgusting.
The floating pieces don't bother us at all, but the burnt toothpaste aroma and palette tend to make us less than happy.
Does anyone else have experience this bad with these "carbonation" drops?
The control batch was a beautiful IPA with cascade and a malty sweet aroma, but the carb drop aroma dwarfed all of the nice hop aroma from the control batch, not to mention the taste is like each floating piece defecating on your tongue. And it is the same bad aroma and taste from all of our bad batches.
We don't think it is an infection because we have used multiple bags and have the same results.
We read a lot of opinions on the drops, appearance and uneven carb'ing, but the awful taste and smell that accompanies them was never mentioned.
Has anyone else done a side by side with these drops?
(We like to split 3 gallon batches into 3 one gallon yeast or dry hop experiments, but when it comes time to bottle, prepping 3 bottling buckets (or cleaning 3 times) can be a pain).
Disgusting.
The floating pieces don't bother us at all, but the burnt toothpaste aroma and palette tend to make us less than happy.
Does anyone else have experience this bad with these "carbonation" drops?
The control batch was a beautiful IPA with cascade and a malty sweet aroma, but the carb drop aroma dwarfed all of the nice hop aroma from the control batch, not to mention the taste is like each floating piece defecating on your tongue. And it is the same bad aroma and taste from all of our bad batches.
We don't think it is an infection because we have used multiple bags and have the same results.
We read a lot of opinions on the drops, appearance and uneven carb'ing, but the awful taste and smell that accompanies them was never mentioned.
Has anyone else done a side by side with these drops?
(We like to split 3 gallon batches into 3 one gallon yeast or dry hop experiments, but when it comes time to bottle, prepping 3 bottling buckets (or cleaning 3 times) can be a pain).