pour you a brew because the chestnut beer
is just great for you.
Hurray.
Chestnut Beer.
Deliciouses... hopefully.
alright guys happy homebrew Wednesday.
So today after three years of homebrewing
I have had my first infected batch of beer.
We’re assuming as much.
The flavor was defiantly not appealing.
It didn’t taste quite like what I’m accustomed
to in trying infected beer, and a lot of what
you read online will tell you that an infected
beer you’ll know if its infected because
the flavor is absolutely, defiantly, something
that you should not be ingesting.
We didn’t really find that with this one,
but It didn’t taste right.
It wasn’t horrid, but it was something I
would not feel comfortable drinking.
It was buttery.
So it.
I don’t think it would be something that
would make you sick or anything like that
but it was defiantly not enjoyable.
Not palatable.
It is difficult because with this particular
beer I was trying something unique... not
unique but something at least different for
me.
I was trying to make a 100% chestnut beer.
So no malts or anything other than chestnut
and there was a little bit of sugar to boost
up the abv.
I was trying to extract as musch sugar from
the chestnuts as possible.
You mentioned I think at one point generally
people who brew with chestnuts have to add
a malt base just to get the ABV content higher
just because chestnuts by themselves don’t
offer a whole lot of sugar.
Cheers.
Cheers.
Initial thoughts?
It’s not very good.
It’s not great.
Its kinda butterscotchy.
Yea, without the sweetness if you had butterscotch
without any sugar.
I mean the first smell was bad, and the rules
of judging if a beer is infected: If visually
something looks bad.
Right.
If it smells bad.
smells bad.
IF it tastes bad.
tastes bad.
Then its probably bad.
If it looks like a banana, peels like a bananana,
IF YOU CAN SLIP ON IT, its a banananana.
This may be my first infected batch.
Its very clear now.
Yea honestly its not cloudy.
I’ve seen infected beers, they can be pretty
cloudy.
This is fairly well.
Everything has dropped out of it.
It’s very clear.
I don’t know, I’ve never had something
like that jellyfish looking thing in the carboy.
SO I went to go bottle my beer today and right
on the top of the inside of the fermenter
was a jellyfish floating.
I was trying to figure out what could that
be?
I thought maybe it was infected but I believe
it’s actually the proteins combining together
with the Gelatin.
If I leave it for a couple days it should
fall out.
So lets see what happens.
Now you can see it is defiantly clearing out.
Right about here there is a difference in
the color.
The top here is a little bit lighter than
down here.
So I’m hoping this is droping out.
Down here you can see all the sediment with
the yeast.
So a coupke days this should move down and
I’ll rack it off.
So I still don’t know what it is.
That jellyfish that was on top did fall out
right where I’m shining the light here.
Little blob.
Thats it.
It’s just sitting on top of the yeast cake.
I was thinking and hoping that it was just
the Gelatin.
I was kinda rushing that process at the time.
I haven’t used Gelatin very often.
So I was hoping that I might of let the Gelatin
boil in the microwave and that could have
caused the jellyfish looking thing.
There’s a couple other things that could
have happened.
Could be from Acetobacter which can live on
dust particles.
Is that a bacteria?
Yes, I believe so, Yes.
What that does is when it mixes with oxygen
it can start turning your beer into vinegar.
I definatly don’t get vinegar from this.
The initial flavor is very strong chestnut.
I defiantly taste chestnut.
It’s just the aftertaste when you exhale.
Very.. very strange.
It’s not funky like when you drink a sasion
or anything with brett.
I’ve had nothing like this.
It’s not good.
Anotherthing that can make ropey beers is
pediococcus.
I don’t think that should be the culprit
because it has no sour flavors.
No its not sour.
Like you said its more of a butterscotch quality.
Just not as sugary.
I think it would be acetobacter issue.
So there you have it.
Try it out yourself see what you think and
if you run into similar issues.
And if you have had simular issues and you
know what the problem was that we might not
know.
Feel free to comment and let us know.
Let us know if you’ve tried anything similar.
If you’ve done any chestnut beers or tried
anything... any information would be fantastic
for any other viewers and ourselves.
So thanks for watching appreciate it and catch
you next time if we don’t die.
What to take us out with a song?
Sure.
Well the chestnut beer it didn’t work because
its not great, it tastes like grapes, except
it dosen’t, it tastes like butterscotch,
with no sugar, it tastes like cock... am I
allowed to say that?
You’re allowed to say whatever you want
its youtube.
ALRIGHT.
well all the beer just tastes like cock.
Not that I would really know.
But hay its cool if you know what cock tastes
like in a brew.
Thanks everybody.
Adios
