Questions tagged [flavor]
Flavor controls taste - one of the main human senses.
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Why do my fresh fruit wine's finish with no body or flavor
I've asked this question before and tried the only suggestion I received. My last batch of strawberry/peach was only marginally better by freezing the fruit prior to brewing. I do better using ...
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How can I use artificial flavors when making homemade hard seltzer?
I have some expreience in home brewing but I want to try something different this time. I want to make hard seltzer by fermantation. There are some recipes over the internet but I could not find any ...
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Adding Additional Pumpkin To My Porter
I'm brewing a extract Pumpkin Porter kit and just transferred from primary to secondary. I tasted it and I could taste the spices but was wondering if it was too late to pumpkin it up a little. Could ...
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Microbial interactions: biotransformations and food/drink science
I am looking for a good, in-depth source on biotransformations (think food science). For example, fermenting black tea and sugar with wild yeast and bacteria (kombucha):
Wild yeast ferment sucrose ...
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After I eat some foods beer tastes weird?
I'm an obsessive home brewer. So I'm always trying to critically evaluate the flavour of beers I make with a view to constantly improving their quality. In particular I am searching for off-flavours, ...
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Why do my spice flavors disappear when my beer is chilled?
I recently brewed a second batch of Christmas ale, which was spiced with cinnamon, ginger, clove and nutmeg. I put a bottle in the fridge last night and tried it, but only a small amount of spice came ...
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Storage Temperature
My primary fermentation and bottle conditioning temperatures are well controlled in a brewing fridge. Once bottles are conditioned / carbonation cycle complete I move them to crates which I store in ...
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Sour beer over herbed with Basil
Just brewed a sour with Basil thrown in at flameout. Now 6 weeks into the fermenter with WLP648 there's not much sourness and a bit (overwhelming) flavour of Basil.
I was wondering what my options ...
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Using fresh fruit for wine
I've recently been attempting to use fresh fruit to flavor my wines and have had disastrous results. The recipes I've found and copied all say to remove the fruit from the must after around 7 days and ...
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Blending different apple varieties for hard cider (uk)
Has anybody experimented with blending different varieties of apple for "hard cider"?
Locally I have an apple variety called "Blenheim Orange" and also an unidentified cider apple. Using just the ...
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How do I use Honey Malt?
I hope this isn't too stupid a question. (I am a "noob")
I wanted to experiment with some additional flavourings in my latest brew, and was pondering using Honey Malt, such as this.
But can someone ...
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Adding extra ingredients/flavouring: what stage should I add?
I am stil fairly new to homebrewing; on my third batch of real ale now, and I wanted to experiment with adding a few extra things to my brew: some elderflowers, and miscellaneous herbs.
My idea was ...
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What is a good time frame for aging cider/apple wine?
I am planning on tasting my cider in the fall (6 months from pitching
yeast) and seeing how the flavor is then. How much would the flavors
improve aging for a year? 2 year? 5? 10? At what point ...
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How does chilling my wort slowly affect the taste of my beer?
When I started brewing I used a plate chiller to chill my wort. I didn't like the process, and now I add cold water after the whirlpool and to get the wort down the last 10°C I put into my ...
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Adding fruit to beer
I'd like to give orange flavor and smell to my batch. When do you think is the best time to add it? Is it best to add orange while the wort is boiling or add it to primary fermentation? Thank you for ...
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