bitter is turning to stout!!

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bitter is turning to stout!!

Post by hitower_george » Sat Nov 15, 2008 12:03 am

yes I'm back again and one day i hope to be as knowledgeable as some of you guy's, some of you are like oracle's !!

I've had my bitter in a pressure barrel around 2 weeks nearly 3 and now i'm half way down it's changed in colour and taste?

it's gone from a lovely golden bitter to a really dark mild/ stout type of brew??

this has been pretty much over night, any idea's? this sort of taste's how the kit smells when in the tin! (if you follow my meaning)

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Re: bitter is turning to stout!!

Post by Ditch » Sat Nov 15, 2008 5:54 am

:-k Devil could well be in the Detail, George .....

What Kit? What Conditions / Temps? What Keg?

See, the better people here may have some suggestions. But, without a better understanding of what ye've done with which and how there? It's a bit like asking, " How far is a distance ".

Please try to narrow the field a bit ;)

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Re: bitter is turning to stout!!

Post by Jim » Sat Nov 15, 2008 9:53 am

It sound's as though somethings going wrong there - how does it taste?

Have you been injecting CO2 gas occassionally to replace the beer that you're drawing off? If not, air might have got in through the tap.
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Re: bitter is turning to stout!!

Post by chopperswookie » Sat Nov 15, 2008 10:59 am

Ditch wrote::-k Devil could well be in the Detail, George .....

What Kit? What Conditions / Temps? What Keg?

See, the better people here may have some suggestions. But, without a better understanding of what ye've done with which and how there? It's a bit like asking, " How far is a distance ".

Please try to narrow the field a bit ;)

its easy to fill all this in in your signature. go to user control panel and update it there.

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Re: bitter is turning to stout!!

Post by Garth » Sat Nov 15, 2008 11:03 am

if it's tasting like it did in the tin, maybe the liquid extract hasn't been mixed/dissolved into the water properly when you've made the kit up and it's sank to the bottom of the barrel, so the lower you go the darker and thicker it gets....?

did you use hot/boiling water to dissolve the extract, did it get a good stir?

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