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Offline juggabrew303

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Campden tablet in boil
« on: July 20, 2016, 08:08:10 pm »
Has anyone thrown their campden tablet into the wort boil.  I forgot to add mine before mashing and added to boil.  The beer has good aroma but flavor is dull and lacking character.  Wondering what others have experienced

It was the Columbus pale ale recipe


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Re: Campden tablet in boil
« Reply #1 on: July 21, 2016, 06:38:58 am »
What was the Campden for?  If it was for chlorine compound removal, adding it in the boil was a waste of time. Those compounds have to be removed from water before the malt is added.
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Re: Campden tablet in boil
« Reply #2 on: July 21, 2016, 08:46:02 am »
Yes, to remove chloramine.  I always add before mash but slipped my mind this time.  Just wondering if it would affect flavor


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Re: Campden tablet in boil
« Reply #3 on: July 21, 2016, 02:28:39 pm »
Yes, to remove chloramine.  I always add before mash but slipped my mind this time.  Just wondering if it would affect flavor


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Extremely minute amounts of salts in one of those, so depending on your batch size I doubt it would have much impact on the flavor of the finished product. Maybe someone will chime in that has done that before.

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Re: Campden tablet in boil
« Reply #4 on: July 21, 2016, 03:47:07 pm »
Yes, to remove chloramine.  I always add before mash but slipped my mind this time.  Just wondering if it would affect flavor


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Re: Campden tablet in boil
« Reply #5 on: July 22, 2016, 12:36:27 pm »
Campden wouldn't make a dull beer 'brighter'. It's to prevent chloramine from interacting with the malt to produce chlorophenols in the finished beer. 'Dull' could be a product of too high of a pH or stale malt. Do you have some phosphoric or lactic acid?  Add a drop or two to a glass of the finished beer and see if it changes the dullness.

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Re: Campden tablet in boil
« Reply #6 on: July 22, 2016, 08:42:27 pm »
Campden wouldn't make a dull beer 'brighter'. It's to prevent chloramine from interacting with the malt to produce chlorophenols in the finished beer. 'Dull' could be a product of too high of a pH or stale malt. Do you have some phosphoric or lactic acid?  Add a drop or two to a glass of the finished beer and see if it changes the dullness.
I use lactic acid, I'll give that a try.  As for grains, my brew shop has pretty heavy traffic (brew hut in Denver) so would be surprised if stale malt was the issue.  I don't have a PH meter yet but I use brunwater to target my PH.  Target was 5.3


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