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Re: Help! Stubborn brewer ruined beer with sea salt
« Reply #15 on: April 21, 2018, 02:54:18 pm »
Don't worry.  Joe Q. Public LOVES beer that's way too effing salty and tastes like seawater.  58,000 people can't be wrong...... Or can they!?



LOL! I Hate that style but brew it every year anyway. The kids love it. I just cringe and watch them pay for it.

absolutely hilarious!

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Re: Help! Stubborn brewer ruined beer with sea salt
« Reply #16 on: April 21, 2018, 03:15:17 pm »
Tastes like a completely different beer today and the salt is barely detectable. I think it is going to be fine. Impatient as usual. Ha!
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Re: Help! Stubborn brewer ruined beer with sea salt
« Reply #17 on: April 21, 2018, 03:33:06 pm »
Don't worry.  Joe Q. Public LOVES beer that's way too effing salty and tastes like seawater.  58,000 people can't be wrong...... Or can they!?


The dog in the pic on the left looks nervous.  Like he's worried you might make him taste it.
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Re: Help! Stubborn brewer ruined beer with sea salt
« Reply #18 on: April 22, 2018, 09:18:46 am »
Tastes like a completely different beer today and the salt is barely detectable. I think it is going to be fine. Impatient as usual. Ha!

Was this with or without the potato?

I wonder if some undissolved salt had collected at the bottom and was getting pulled into the first few pints in large amounts?

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Re: Help! Stubborn brewer ruined beer with sea salt
« Reply #19 on: April 22, 2018, 09:41:52 am »
Tastes like a completely different beer today and the salt is barely detectable. I think it is going to be fine. Impatient as usual. Ha!

Interesting, I had a similar experience with a salted caramel stout once. Tasted too salty at first then a couple days later I wasn't even sure I could taste the salt.

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Re: Help! Stubborn brewer ruined beer with sea salt
« Reply #20 on: April 22, 2018, 11:39:38 am »
Tastes like a completely different beer today and the salt is barely detectable. I think it is going to be fine. Impatient as usual. Ha!

Was this with or without the potato?

I wonder if some undissolved salt had collected at the bottom and was getting pulled into the first few pints in large amounts?

No potato.

I think it’s exactly what you said. I was taking about 2-3 oz samples every day. I shook the keg then took a sample immediately not realizing that the beer in the line wasn’t mixed with the rest of the keg so it was still very salty. Now it tastes great and there is just a very subtle hint. I’m glad my calculation from test dosing beers wasn’t wrong. It didn’t make sense.
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