Cigarette Ash Taste/Smell

does that happen with an infection? the reason i ask is i got those flavors in a homebrew i did that was infected.

 

I've had hints of that with some smoked porters.

 

I have experienced this too but in only a handful of beers. Maybe you taste beer different than most folks?

 

I got a bit of it in FFF Rabbid Rabbit, but nothing to freak out about.

 

not very often but did taste notes of Tobacco in Surly 5

 

Sometimes this happens to me with smoked beers but not often. I would say it's a combination of the smoked aspect gone wrong and your palate. Could simply be the former though if the brewer messed up smoking the malt.

 

You're wrong. No cigarette ash in Rabbid Rabbit.

Mikkeller tends to have ashy notes in lots of its stouts, especially Black. Another beer with cigarette ash characteristics is Bitch Please, which is best consumed on a dare.

 

hm didnt realize I could be wrong. had it on a fresh palate, and thats what I got. but maybe I was hammered as hell.

 

I get this flavor most from Islay whisky, which is the peaty flavor. I think a ciggy taste is common for most smoked beers though, so their descriptor is not bad IMO...

 

I don't get that in well made smoked beer not at all.

You can get acrid flavors from poor use of black malts.

 

I quit smoking 15 years ago but remember that things, mostly food, could taste ashy. I never smoked during a meal but would sometimes before eating. Have any of you experienced an ashy beer taste after smoking?

 

Those Danes know how to make a good ash brew. Like licking charred wood. I love it.

 

I don't pick it up, but I've met people that get that from Cigar City's beers. I'm guessing it might be the cedar.

 

I know right? http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/24300/71483

 

The cedar doesn't give off that flavor. Zhukov is quite ashy on its own. Lots of roasted malt in that thing.

 

I don't just mean their stouts. I've had people tell me they get it in almost everything from Big Sound to Maduro.
I don't pick it up at all, so it's a mystery to me.

 

Some homebrewers have said that some hops,especially Amarillo and Centennial can impart those flavors. Could be from mishandled hops.

 

The cedar? How about the CIGARS?

 

No clearly you're wrong. Your palate wasn't fresh, it wasn't ash that you were tasting, and there's no maybe to it--you were hammered.

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