My Wit has a Hot-dog Aftertaste!!!!

[Schnitzengiggle]

I've seen a few recipes with candi sugar in a Wit. It is a belgian ale after all. I think it added a bit of dryness to the beer which is good, just that damn aftertaste, but I doubt it has anything to do with the candi sugar. I'm obsessing over it, at any rate, I am optomistic.

 

[RCCOLA]

Try clicking on this link and see if any of these off-flavors more accurately describe what you have going on.I know sometimes you need a "hint" to accurately describe a flavor characteristic.
Acetaldehyde. The aroma with the symptoms and causes when homebrewing beer and alcohol.

 

[Schlenkerla]

What about the hops. What type, how fresh?

Chances are that it will mellow with time or you will really get an aqcuired taste for weinerbrau.

I'd let it sit for awhile.

 

[Schlenkerla]

The OP should peruse this website. See if he can identify the off flavor as something other than hot dog.

How to Brew - By John Palmer - Common Off-Flavors

 

[Fat Guy Brewing]

Hey, beer and hot dogs all in one, I would be set for baseball season. I hope someone posts a nacho and peanut aftertaste thread, although not in the same beer. Please...I do have standards.

 

[olllllo]

The OP should peruse this website. See if he can identify the off flavor as something other than hot dog.

How to Brew - By John Palmer - Common Off-Flavors

Uhhh yea. HAM for example!


Ham = the non cylindrical pork product.

 

[Schnitzengiggle]

It's been in the bottles now for 16 days, much better, hot-dog taste has definitely morphed into more of a spicyness. A few more days and this stuff is gonna be bomb! I sampled one today, great carbonation-just right. Thick, silky, white head with great retention and beautiful lacing the color is a gorgeous golden almost like a light honey. One more week, yes this will be fantastic!!!

Wait it out huh? I guess this was the brew to make me a true beleiver!

MMMMMMMMM-MMMMM! YUMMY!

 

[Saccharomyces]

Missed this thread until now...

Hot dog flavor = wrong type of coriander for a Wit, I think.

The coriander you should use comes from Asian markets, is shaped like footballs, is typically from India, and it smells INTENSELY of grapefruit. The stuff typically sold in megamarts as "coriander" in the US is a different beast, typically from Mexico, it is round in shape and darker than the Indian coriander. It smells and tastes like... grassy hotdogs to me.

My first Wit I didn't know better, it improved with age but it took 6-8 weeks before the beer tasted remotely like a Wit to me. The recipe in my dropdown (which came out of the previously quoted Celis white clone thread after many hours of research) was wonderful after only two weeks.

And yes it is fine to use candi sugar in a Wit but I use regular table sugar or corn sugar because it's cheaper.

 

[olllllo]

Hmm I must be chopped liver or ham or tiny hot dogs.

 

[Schnitzengiggle]

The corriander I used was from Brewer's Best if that makes any difference. They sell spices intended for brewing, so unless the corriander they sell is thewrong type I'll make certain not to use it again. Thanks for the troubleshoot, that would make perfect sense.

 

[Schlenkerla]

You know last night I was making a quick easy dinner. Boiled some hot dogs.

I was cleaning up afterward and saw the pot with the dog-water? It made me think of this thread.

You didn't happen to make hot dogs and boil your priming water and possibly get the two them mixed up did you?

I have used McCormick Brand Coriander it tastes normal. My Hoegaarten clone was so close to the original its not funny.

From the sounds of it you need to give it some time. I think that is good news.

I once lost a steel screen in a batch of beer. I think the acidity dissolved the screen, I couldn't find it anywhere, in my fermentor or sink. The beer was a APA and it tasted like metal real bad during bottling. About 2 months later I could not even tell that it was the same beer. It changed that much.

 

[Fat Guy Brewing]

You didn't happen to make hot dogs and boil your priming water and possibly get the two them mixed up did you?

I have used McCormick Brand Coriander it tastes normal. My Hoegaarten clone was so close to the original its not funny.

Awesome Schlenkerla!

McCormick has always worked for me, but the Indian coriander might be interesting to try.

 

[Schnitzengiggle]

I had no idea there was more than one type of corriander.

 

[Schnitzengiggle]

FYI it isn't my beer, I never really noticed it, but I taste hot dogs in New Belgium's Mothership Wit too. So I would have to say this brew is to style. SWMBO likes the Witbiers, I am not a HUGE fan, I enjoy them, but I would drink something else if I have the choice.

 

[Shooter]

FYI it isn't my beer, I never really noticed it, but I taste hot dogs in New Belgium's Mothership Wit too. So I would have to say this brew is to style. SWMBO likes the Witbiers, I am not a HUGE fan, I enjoy them, but I would drink something else if I have the choice.

You're not the only one to notice that flavor. I like witbiers and love Hoegarden, but I've always thought they had a sort of cured meat aftertaste, especially Hoegarden. Years ago, first time I tried one, I started referring to it as the salami beer. Even my wife knows it by that name and she doesn't even drink beer.

 

[Zenman]

Glad it is mellowing, 1 week in bottle is to short in my opinion and is probably why you have the odd flavor. Even if it goes away completely I'd still name the beer Coney Island Wit or some such, would make for interesting conversation at least

 

[IrregularPulse]

When I kegged my Wit (BM's Recipe) a few weeks ago, it smelled like hot dogs very much. And now I have 10 more gallons of it fermenting with a mild hotdog smell, But it tastes and smells great when pouring, I think its the kraussen maybe. But like I said, this hot dogness was not present after racking to keg and serving.

 

[Schlenkerla]

I bet part of it is just esters of the yeast. Like that of lagers that churn out sulfury odors. Some ales ferment awful smelly too. How often have you smelled banana in the ferment only to find its totally gone after its in the bottle?

Think about warm beer and how it can smell bad or not so appetizing after awhile.

I bet the temp fermenting your wit has something to do with it as does your cell count at pitching.

Aging works miracles too!!! :rockin:

 

[imprez25]

I had a "beerfest" at my house in early April and one of the beer we were sampling was the Celius White. While the beer ranked very high in the 20+ beers we sampled (I think it got either 2nd or 3rd), my Aunt instantly stated the Celius tasted like hot dog water. After that everyone else tasted it too. I have always liked Celius, but this was the first time I picked this flavor up. It was not even an aftertaste, this was very upfront and immediate. The citrus and spice were more on the back end. Which is how it finished so high. I have since had Celius on draft and the hotdog flavored water taste was not there. I assumed the bottle was old.

 

[Schlenkerla]

You know I have never tasted hot dog water. I might need to take a sample to better understand this!!

Do you think brat water is sufficient? Not boiled in beer though. I don't have any BMC to waste.

 

[Schnitzengiggle]

The flavor is in the aroma, once it is in your mouth the orange and corriander stand out. It has definitely mellowed, but it has been in the bottle for over 2 months now (since 3/15). I know that Wits and Wheats are meant to be drank young, but I enjoy it a helluva lot more now than at 2 weeks.

Like I said I had a 22 of Mothership Wit a few days ago, and it smelled and tasted almost identical to the flavor and aroma I originally described, so I will chalk this brew up as a success. It was a LHBS kit, costed around $45 which I think is kinda steep, so I'm gonna buy my own ingredients this next go round and see if I can't cheapen it up a bit.

On that topic, is there any real difference in purchasing Brewer's Best ingredients (which are supposedly packaged exclusively for brewing) opposed to say ingredients from the local farmer's market or organic food supply store?

Of course other than the obvious, "they are much more expensive.".

 

[beerkrump]

So what are you going to name the beer?
Wienerschnitzel Wit?

 

[Schnitzengiggle]

Yeah, its Derlicious

 

[SmugMug]

So what are you going to name the beer?
Wienerschnitzel Wit?

Not to be a total buzzkill, but wiener schnitzel is just breaded meat. How 'bout "Wurst Wit".

 

[Schlenkerla]

The question you have ask yourself is your wit kosher!!

Some of the best hotdogs are kosher!!!

 

[Schnitzengiggle]

Well it wasn't blessed by a Rabbi

 

[Schlenkerla]

Howz this for name?

HeBreWit
"It's Kosher"
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[Schnitzengiggle]

That's awesome! So many of you out there are so clever with your word play, goes to show I'm still new to this

 

[olllllo]

What if SheBrewit and not He?

 

[Schlenkerla]

What if SheBrewit and not He?

SheBreWit
"It's Kosher"
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