Building flavor profiles

[palzhaus]

Has anyone ever built flavor profiles for malts, hops, etc.? If so, what's your technique?

I apologize if this subject has been covered already. I was unable to find previous threads.

 

[iijakii]

What do you mean by building flavor profiles?

 

[m00ps]

also confused

Are you talking about trying to center in on a certain general type of hop flavor like piney/dank citrus/floral spicy/earthy etc?

 

[palzhaus]

What I mean is to understand what each ingredient tastes like and how they contribute to the final batch. Do you eat raw grain, do you steep some in a little water and taste that? How do you "taste" hops to distinguish the different types without brewing a batch of beer?

 

[iijakii]

I'll chew on some new grains, but I don't pretend to be a savant that can determine how that'll interact with a beer, especially at different percentages. Truthfully experience is the only way. One thing that really helps me is to look up clone recipes of commercial beers I've had, and try to correlate what I'm tasting. But yeah, just have to experiment.

 

[m00ps]

a lot of brewers so single malt / single hop beers to get a good idea of certain hops and base malts. You can add like 1lb of any specialty malt you want to highlight for a similar kind fo idea

most for me its just experience.

 

[BeerdTraveler]

I'll second iijakii. Clones have helped me the most. Taste a beer, focus on it's "flavor profile", as you put it, and then look at the ingredients.

For example, Zombie Dust is awesome. Zombie Dust's clone uses 8 ounces of just citra hops. Ergo citra hops are awesome. Turns out I'm a citra hop fanboy

 

[gratus fermentatio]

Has anyone ever built flavor profiles for malts, hops, etc.? If so, what's your technique?

I apologize if this subject has been covered already. I was unable to find previous threads.

Do you mean something like this?
http://www.onebeer.net/grainchart.html
Regards, GF.

 

[palzhaus]

Do you mean something like this?

http://www.onebeer.net/grainchart.html

Regards, GF.

Hi. Sorry for the late response.

That's what I want to get to but I was mainly curious about individuals' preferred technique of doing it?