Harsh taste from spiced extract at bottom of keg

[Brewmegoodbeer]

Hello,

I am finishing off a pumpkin beer that I made, which I added a combination of spices in vodka as a homemade extract to the keg. It has tasted very good until I have approached the bottom of the keg where I am getting a astringency and a vodka like taste that I can only conclude is from the extract. Has anyone else experienced this? It has brought me to probably discontinuing adding extracts and just adding spices to boil or fermentation.

 

[Brewmegoodbeer]

To further examin this, I just agitated the keg a little by swaying the keg back and forth and poured a sample and i didnt get this harsh taste. Yup. No more extracts are going into the keg.

 

[chris000]

the vodka has nothing to do with it; water/alc is a homogeneous (single phase) mixture.
approaching the bottom of the keg can either mean something harsh was floating in higher levels or more likely it just took time to create something ugly.
shaking would only help if it is something ugly at the bottom

or you just got rid of it in one of the past pints

 

[Brewmegoodbeer]

the vodka has nothing to do with it; water/alc is a homogeneous (single phase) mixture.
approaching the bottom of the keg can either mean something harsh was floating in higher levels or more likely it just took time to create something ugly.
shaking would only help if it is something ugly at the bottom

or you just got rid of it in one of the past pints

Its a possibility that its from me not filtering the spices from the extract. I did pour gently to not get any in there but its possible that some did. This is promising. Thank you.

 

[chris000]

I don't brew with spices. so, there might be others that can advise specifically on your issue.
the only time I have come across stuff with ginger ale (and fruit wine in bottles) - all not filtered and it takes quite some time. sometimes stuff sits on the bottom fairly compact, sometimes in a thick fluffy layer (i.e. continuesly flushed out through the dip tube or the rare junk of something).
filtering suspicious things is never a bad idea. a flexible dip tube on a float is another option.