Siberian
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Anyone have any experience with the vodka used to make a spice tincture adding off/foul flavors to a beer? I've done a few recipes that called for a tincture to be made (one had a full cup/8oz of vodka being used for the tincture). Now they said to use the cheapest/rotgut vodka I could find since it didn't matter. So that's what I did, what I bought I wouldn't drink if it was the last thing on earth, it certainly has a taste to it.
So, I used that as directed and in the three beers I did it there's a similar... metallic/medicinal sort of off flavor. It might be some other flaw in the process, they were some of my earlier beers but the one thing all of them have in common is that method of Vodka based extraction.
So, does the quality of the vodka matter? (even though your often encouraged to use the cheapest) Would I be better off using watered down Everclear or just a more expensive vodka to do the extraction and avoid introducing a taste? Am I crazy and is what I'm tasting something else....?
So, I used that as directed and in the three beers I did it there's a similar... metallic/medicinal sort of off flavor. It might be some other flaw in the process, they were some of my earlier beers but the one thing all of them have in common is that method of Vodka based extraction.
So, does the quality of the vodka matter? (even though your often encouraged to use the cheapest) Would I be better off using watered down Everclear or just a more expensive vodka to do the extraction and avoid introducing a taste? Am I crazy and is what I'm tasting something else....?