Drinking Starter Beer.........

[lucasszy]

So I was siphoning off the "beer" from the top of my starter.... and decided to taste it.

It tastes pretty damn good! It started out as a dark belgian ale that was watered down to the right 1.040 and then I used a mix of carb drops and regular table sugar (didnt have DME) to build it up.

Tastes kind of like a cider, kind of like a belgian ale.

Anyone else do this, or am I about to get laughed off of the board for drinking "starter beer"

I did get a whole glass from the thing, and its almost gone!


Cheers

 

[gerico]

It is great drinking starter beer. It is like a quality check on your beer. It can only get better.

Rule of thumb: For each percentage of alcohol keep the beer in store for one week. You will experience a far better taste in the end.

 

[Diablo]

I was wondering why Palmer says to throw in some hops to your starter wort! Now I know!

 

[Tripod]

Rule of thumb: For each percentage of alcohol keep the beer in store for one week. You will experience a far better taste in the end.

I like the sound of this but can you clarify? Does "keep the beer in store" mean conditioning storage...after fermentation?

-Tripod

 

[gerico]

Appologize for my English. I am not a native speaker so to speak.

I mean conditioning storage after the beer is botteled. This includes two weeks of fermenting in the bottle and several weeks in consitioning (cool) storage. Mostly a refrigiator.

So 8% of alcohol means a minimum storage time of 8 weeks. This works fine for us. We experienced that longer conditioned storage may improve beer quality. We will not store beer for more than one year. (Because of the thirst...;-)

 

[mordantly]

a couple hop pellets really help to monitor the krausen. also with the starter being the same everytime, its an awesome way to decipher the yeast profile, and of course you get a liter of beer that is perfectly oxidized and RTD.

 

[Tripod]

I mean conditioning storage after the beer is botteled. This includes two weeks of fermenting in the bottle and several weeks in consitioning (cool) storage. Mostly a refrigiator.

So 8% of alcohol means a minimum storage time of 8 weeks. This works fine for us. We experienced that longer conditioned storage may improve beer quality. We will not store beer for more than one year. (Because of the thirst...;-)

That is what I thought you meant...bottle conditioning. That is a good rule of thumb to use! Thank you for clarifying.

Your english is far better than most native speakers I know.

-Tripod

PS - Welcome to Home Brew Talk!!!

 

[sudbuster]

a couple hop pellets really help to monitor the krausen. also with the starter being the same everytime, its an awesome way to decipher the yeast profile, and of course you get a liter of beer that is perfectly oxidized and RTD.

Yeah, me too, dog.....

 

[Revvy]

I've considered it...actually hopping then bottling the starter beer in a flip top or something. I mean it's practically ready in 12 hours or so....

 

[mordantly]

you rich guys with your flippy top bottles... lucky!