Mouth Feel:
How to achieve more...
Lots of reading and think there is not a single way to get the mouth feel but using multiple factors that all add silk\
smooth to mouth feel.
- Water
adjust chloride\sulfates (I add 10% of calcium chloride addition to boil)
- grains\additions
malto dextrine
- mash temp
154-156
- yeast
under pitch
- carbonation
low
- serving temp
higher then normal
Thoughts? Any other factors I am missing...
-Carapils does nothing IMHO.
-mash temp doesn't do much either IMHO unless maybe you take it really high, like 160-165 and then shoot for a higher OG, which will result in more "stuff" in solution for a lower ABV than you'd get at a lower OG with a lower mash temp. dark malts add creaminess and foam, but aren't appropriate in the style for the most part.
-low carbonation is key IMHO, but you need enough to get the aromatics to pop out
-warmer serving temp is key too.
-i think that for a give OG, there is a given amount of a particular dry hop variety/crop that you can add in the dryhop and not have it start to come across as dry or astringent. so, 1 oz/gal of dry hops in a 1.050 beer will taste a lot dryer than 1 oz/gal in a 1.075 beer all else held constant. So, the general point is that in general fewer dry hops and fewer dry hops of hops that are known to create a perception of dryness will result in a final beer that is more round in flavor.
-yeast in suspension can be a two-edged sword. it seems to me that yeast can make a beer taste fuller or rounder, but it can also leave a yeast bite sometimes.
-yeast selection can increase mouthfeel - some strains just taste rounder/smoother, especially when they leave more residual sugars
-leaving more residual sugars in a beer will give a perception of fullness, richness and mouthfeel. the key here is to not leave too many sugars that taste sweet, as that can be cloying (though we all have our preferences there.)
-omitting sulfate in the beer at all will make the beer taste more full too IMHO. Sulfate makes beers taste thinner and dryer (sometimes a good thing - lots of room for personal preference here.)
-one fantastic way to make a creamy full beer is to add oak to it. that doesn't work in this style though either...
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