Dusty taste?

[Brewer_Bob]

I am back in Cambodia for vacation and the beer scene here has really picked up. Beers like Guinness Foreign Extra Stout are now available and a new brewery opened up here called Kingdom that, to my surprise, makes a pilsener that isn't half bad.

In a couple bars, though, I have had both the Guinness and the Kingdom Pilsener that had a slight "dusty" taste to them. In both cases they were bottled, not canned. Is this the skunked taste everyone talks about or is it something else?

 

[ksbrain]

Skunked actually tastes and smells like skunk. Ever had a Heineken? That's skunky.

 

[Revvy]

Could be just stale. Storage conditions can affect how a beer ends up tasting. You have to wander how far a beer has to travel to get there, plus how it is handled through the distribution channel.

 

[remilard]

Oxidation.