Fun with Sh*tty Beer: Adulterating a Failed Barleywine

Make some banana bread out of that banana bread beer. That'll get rid of about 2 beers worth.

 

I voted to just leave it alone. Below is from the paper entitled:The chemistry of beer aging – a critical review.

“Volatile esters introduce fruity flavour notes and are considered highly positive flavour attributes of fresh beer. Isoamyl acetate, produced by yeast, e.g., gives a banana-like flavour. However, during storage, the concentration of this ester can decrease to levels below its threshold level (Neven, Delvaux, & Derdelinckx, 1997; Stenroos, 1973) which results in a diminished fruity flavor of beer.”

Cheers!

 

Seems like a perfect beer to sour, pitch a roselare or lambic blend, maybe some good dregs and let it sit for a few yrs. the high ABV may inhibit the bugs a bit, but it'll prolly sour up nicely.

 

I voted "Leave it alone." One thing you can always count on banana flavor/aroma to do is disappear.

 

A beer that big you'll want to get some age on anyway, so you may find that in a few months the banana is gone. However, if you still have those issues after a few months, I say freeze distill it into an Eisbock. I did that once with a failed cider that was chock-full of rhino farts and turned it into a wonderful applejack sort of concoction.

 

Who wouldn't want to try "Rhino Fart Eisbock"?

 

Who else clicked this thread half expecting to read about a dick in a bucket of wort? Lol.

 

I voted 'wait & see' but if you want to add brett, how 'bout some Orval dregs?

 

Dude! You just kicked leedorhom's a$$!

Cheers to you!

 

The only thing that could make that better is if it was brewed for a wedding.

 

I turned a gift keg of crappy porter into an excellent sour by adding Orval and JP dregs.

 

I guess I am with the add dregs crowd. I vote Orval, I did that with a very bland beer once and it worked out well.

I realize bland isn't the problem here, just saying... umm...uhhh...

/ pours quart of freshly kegged Chinook WY3787 IPA and stares into space.

 

I don't know a lot about Belgium styles, but I'd be trying to mate this with some sort of quad beer and it might turn out sexy.

 

Add some Brett C to make it an Old Ale.

 

Age will be your friend!

 

Im surprised it stayed around so long in his beer as it is! My Roggenbier has lost its banana flavor very quickly, its still good but not like it was when I first started drinking it.

 

Hmmm... "weird banana bread" doesn't actually sound bad to me. How does it taste? Not knowing, I voted to just leave it alone but I also like simply adding some Brett to it as MrOH suggested.

 

Split the half in half, sour half and age half...half, half, half, half