gmacbeer
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So I brewed what I called an "Apple Pie Larger" for thanksgiving
I used fresh apples and some cinnamon and nutmeg for flavoring.
It tasted fine going from the brew kettle to the primary. Still fine going primary to the secondary. Then something went off the rails. The final product is overwhelmingly apple scented / flavored. Everything else is as I expected. Color, clarity and carbonation are all where I wanted them to be.. but the underlying spices were gone. Vanished.
Last night I took a pint glass, coated the bottom with cinnamon, then poured the beer - i's the only way I can get back the spice notes I was trying to achieve.
Do I simply need to dump some cinnamon into the secondary next time? More importantly, why would the flavor had vanished? (It was still present when I racked from the primary to the secondary) Could the spices have possibly settled out to the bottom of the secondary?
I used fresh apples and some cinnamon and nutmeg for flavoring.
It tasted fine going from the brew kettle to the primary. Still fine going primary to the secondary. Then something went off the rails. The final product is overwhelmingly apple scented / flavored. Everything else is as I expected. Color, clarity and carbonation are all where I wanted them to be.. but the underlying spices were gone. Vanished.
Last night I took a pint glass, coated the bottom with cinnamon, then poured the beer - i's the only way I can get back the spice notes I was trying to achieve.
Do I simply need to dump some cinnamon into the secondary next time? More importantly, why would the flavor had vanished? (It was still present when I racked from the primary to the secondary) Could the spices have possibly settled out to the bottom of the secondary?