Salt in my beer - lots of it. Any hope?

Ok, without going into too much detail... I ended up with about 2 cups of salt in my primary bucket full of fermented pale ale!

The beer had been in there for 4 weeks (and fully fermented) before the salt was "accidentally" dumped in and covered again. Since then, it's been about another week and a half and hasn't been opened/moved since.

The beer smells great through the airlock! Any chance the salt may have settled so that I can rack right off of it? Or is it most likely a lost cause? Any ideas?

Thanks in advance!

 

take a sample and taste. I'm going with salty, but who knows?

 

trying to make a gose beer?

Or did you mix up your sugar and salt? SWMBO made some terrible muffins one time doing that...

 

Salt is water soluble. It doesn't settle.

 

Taste before dumping, and always remember:

"don't dump it unless it tastes like satan's anus"

 

It doesnt look good for your beer, reminds me of the time my friend was making gravy on thx giving and added powered sugar instead of flour to thicken it.

 

Tasted it and it's salty. Aside from the salt it tastes great and is crystal clear! Damn!! Looks like I'm going to have to dump for the first time.

 

I think if we can help at all we need to here the story behind this

 

Too salty to enjoy? Maybe throw a bunch of herbs or something in there and make something interesting.

You could always save it and use it to cook! Beer brats, chili, marinades, sauces, etc.

 

Salt will settle and compact if you don't agitate it. Same as sugar. But I can't see beer with 2 cups of salt in it being drinkable.

 

Now that's an idea. I suppose I wouldn't go through the trouble of bottling/carbonating. How would you go about storing the 5 gallons?

As for the "whole story"... Let's just say that it wasn't me who poured it in there, nor was it any kind of mistake!

 

Excellent point. If you enjoy smoked fish, it would make a killer brine!

 

Angry SWMBO??!!!!!

 

you might not be able to bottle carb this, the salt may have killed all of your yeast and there might not be any left to carbonate the batch. If it tastes salty to you, it is probably deadly salty to your good friends the yeast.

 

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This is an excellent idea. I would even brine a chicken/turkey in it as well - the cooking possibilities are endless!

 

Ooooh, that would be an ex-SWMBO.

 

What kind of beer was this...if it was a light lager I'd squeeze a bunch of lime in there and say it was your attempt at a Miller Chill Clone.

 

Try it with lime....


But I'm all for the "cooking beer" idea. It'd be great for all kinds of stuff.

 

the cooking idea is a great one most cooking wines have salt added to them and they're still great for cooking. I hesitate to mention this but water can be desalinated by distillation so...

 

I'm definitely going to go with the cooking suggestions. Only trick is how to store all of it. Can I just rack it into 2 liter bottles? Would they need to be refrigerated?

 

Your swmbo intentionally poured salt in your beer? Were you really bad or is she really mean?

 

Common! Let's hear the whole story!!!!!! What did you do to deserve that????????

 

+1000 ON THAT. that's passive agressive BS that's not tolerated in my house. You got a problem with me, you can tell it to my face.

 

To fix this situation I would start off by mixing a little with her shampoo, or if she wears contacts possibly her contact solution.

 

Spill it, Craig.

 

Ha! Yes, I suppose I deserved it. At least she felt bad and told me before I went through the trouble of bottling it all. That would have REALLY sucked.

 

Dude, unless you got caught tapping her sister I can't see what reason she could have to mess with your beer. Although it would have been amusing on our end when you posted in a few weeks trying to have us diagnose the salty flavor in your beer.

 

Ok. Let's just say that what I did to deserve this had a lot to do with me drinking. Hence the ruined beer... She really isn't that mean.

 

Ok no more of this hints stuff. Just give us the whole story and we will probably get a good laugh and then make you feel better.

 

Throw some tequila in there!

 

Put some pepper in there. That should even it out.

 

+ 1 on save it for cooking, especially marinade or brine.

 

Actually, saving it for cooking and making something really tasty out of it would be a funny way of thumbing your nose at your swmbo's "revenge"

 

The beer now has been named!!!!!!

 

Ahha! so you got drunk and tapped her sister.

 

Another vote here for using it to cook with, and telling us the story on how you tapped that ass.

 

distill it, the salt would be left behind after the alcohol and water evaporate

probably would loose some other flavors but would be a cool experiment if you had access to the equipment

 

I'm at a loss, and I know I shouldn't even ask, but... what exactly is that flavor?

I guess it's probably the burning ring of fire!

 

another vote for saving it for cooking and for the rest of the story!

As has been said before, if you bottle, you probably wont be able to carb, but what does that matter if your just cooking with it?