"I can taste the priming sugar"...huh?

[imaguitargod]

Ok, so I have this "know it all" friend (who coincidently comes to me when he has a problem with brewing. When I try to trouble shoot his problem he gets insulted and plays off the help like it's stupid and won't work....so, now you understand his personality ) who keeps saying the same thing to me. Now it’s really starting to annoy me.

"I really like your beers, but they would be better if they were kegged. I can taste the priming sugar and it's horrible".

I'm calling BS (I don't say it, I just ignore what he says). I use the appropriate 3/4 a cup for ALL of my bottling. All the beers are perfectly carbed and don't explode in the bottle so I’m not using too much. I don’t taste priming sugar in my beers and no one else has ever said anything. Is there any ways that what he’s saying can be true?

 

[Scimmia]

Simple solution is to stop giving him beer.

Even in a lighter beer, I can't see the priming sugar having a noticeable effect on flavor. Ask him what it tastes like.

 

[Teacher]

^What he said. This clown doesn't deserve your beer.

 

[david_42]

Once your beer is carbonated, there is NO priming sugar in it. Sounds like he could cover the back forty all by himself.

 

[kuphish]

How exactly can he taste the sugar after the yeast have consumed it all up?

 

[imaguitargod]

How exactly can he taste the sugar after the yeast have consumed it all up?

Ya know, I'm going to ask him that very same thing next time. He'll probably get flustured and come up with some BS statement liek, "It produces off flavors".

 

[BrewsCampbell]

Ha! A friend of mine has another friend just like this. Except it's an odd mustard-like aftertaste that only he can taste. These people are amusing and, imo, ultimately jealous.

You should come up with something really fancy sounding and say that all his beers have it.

Seriously though, if he's brewing his own and complains about yours, tell him to bring his own.

 

[Scimmia]

Too much sugar CAN produce off flavors. That's why I said to ask him what it tastes like, if he says sugar, you can call him on total BS. Like I said, though, the amounts we're talking about it shouldn't be an issue at all.

 

[Munsoned]

Every time he comes to you for advice on his beers, tell him you think they seem to lack an adequate "wetness factor ratio." See if he can figure that one out.

 

[wildwest450]

Two words- cock punch.

 

[Donner]

peel the label off some micro brew, invite him over and hand it to him to see if he can taste the priming sugar. Tell him it's your new brew.

 

[DerBraumeister]

Present two identical bottles to him. Tell him that one was "grüngeschlaucht" (you bottled at the time when the beer was a few points from its terminal gravity) and that the other was primed with sugar.

Ask him if he can taste the difference. If he does, it is up to you whether you indulge your self to call him a charlatan to his face or just keep it too your self.

 

[imaguitargod]

These people are amusing and, imo, ultimately jealous.

I think you've hit the nail on the head.

Seriously though, if he's brewing his own and complains about yours, tell him to bring his own.

He does, and they aren't really that great.

Every time he comes to you for advice on his beers, tell him you think they seem to lack an adequate "wetness factor ratio." See if he can figure that one out.

Two words- cock punch.

ROFL!

peel the label off some micro brew, invite him over and hand it to him to see if he can taste the priming sugar. Tell him it's your new brew.

Present two identical bottles to him. Tell him that one was "grüngeschlaucht" (you bottled at the time when the beer was a few points from its terminal gravity) and that the other was primed with sugar.

Ask him if he can taste the difference. If he does, it is up to you whether you indulge your self to call him a charlatan to his face or just keep it too your self.

I'm liking those ideas but don't know if I want to spend the effort....

 

[DerBraumeister]

What effort? You only have to open two bottles of the same brew (perhaps mark the cap of the other with a magic marker for effect), tell a small story and your trap is set...

 

[jds]

Three words.

EAC

 

[imaguitargod]

What effort? You only have to open two bottles of the same brew (perhaps mark the cap of the other with a magic marker for effect), tell a small story and your trap is set...

I'd have to strip off the label off a beer because when I bring over my beers he looks at them when he puts them in the fridge.

 

[imaguitargod]

Three words.

EAC

Exact Audio Copy, Education and Assistance Corporation?

 

[brewt00l]

I agree with the commercial substitution...love to see what kooky criticisms he comes up with.

 

[Bullshivit-brew]

+1 to the cock punch

 

[imaguitargod]

+1 to the cock punch

Like this?

 

[TeufelBrew]

+1 Cock Punch, but with the BMC bottle in hand. Then leave it for the swelling to minor parts.

When he comes around again, just explain you don't want to hear the crap anymore. If you can't say anything constructive, keep the pie whole shut.

 

[imaguitargod]

+1 Cock Punch, but with the BMC bottle in hand. Then leave it for the swelling to minor parts.

When he comes around again, just explain you don't want to hear the crap anymore. If you can't say anything constructive, keep the pie whole shut.

Well, I'm all open for what people think about my beer. Infact, the only opinions I want are honest opinions. I'd be more offended if someone said "I like you beer" when infact they thought it was crap.

But he doesn't have anything really to say other than the corn sugar thing. He's a fellow homebrewer (actually showed me the basics way back when), but I've so far surpased him with experience and brewing knowledge that I think he's pissed.

 

[Scimmia]

Three words.

EAC

ROFLMAO! I didn't think anyone talked about that anymore!

 

[imaguitargod]

Help me out, what's EAC stand for?

 

[Revvy]

Help me out, what's EAC stand for?

You really have to search for that one....


This looks like it had potential to being an epic thread.

I vote cock punch....

 

[JKoravos]

Help me out, what's EAC stand for?

I'm guessing...Eat A Synonym for Rooster.

 

[NTOLERANCE]

EAC = East Australian Current........ Dude....

 

[eriktlupus]

so bottle a batch using dme instead of the corn sugar and tell him nothing. but even then he's still gonna be a whining little butch who knows your a better brewer than he is.

 

[imaguitargod]

I'm guessing...Eat A Synonym for Rooster.

Eat a chanticleer?*







*sarcasm

 

[josiahcox]

Okay - Cock punch for the win - but only after you have made him make a total a$$hat of himself by doing the label switch. I'd just stop giving him beer or tell him to bbuy you a kegging system.

Bottom line is he is full of it.

EAC = Erroneous Alcohol Consumer, I thought everyone knew that this was the official acronym for beer tasting bull$h*ters.