Turbid keg

Floating adjuncts is the new trend. Didn't y'all get the memo?

 

Yeah that’s unacceptable. And nasty. Unless soggy coconut is your thing.

 

I feel sorry for any Brewery putting that out, that is just a revenue killer. Looks like someone dumped an ashtray into the beer.

 

It was not that long ago (e.g., 5+ years ago) where folks would opine that a beer that looks like gravy is disgusting and would never sell. Nowadays there are many breweries making HUGE bucks selling these sorts of beers.

Are 'chunky' beers the next new 'shiny thing'?

Cheers!

P.S. I will set my timer to see how long before some BA posts there is nothing 'new' here and that chunky beers (with accompanying straws) were being consumed since ancient Egyptian times.

 

Hahaha omg, you're talking about a couple of the biggest all-hype, lawnchair-lining, fake-scarcity breweries out right now.

 

LOL I cannot believe people are lining up for this, that is nuts least to me. Hey, I guess if they like it cool but man that just looks funky to me.
Cheers

 

They only do it to because of the secondary market. They either resell the bottles for a profit or trade them exorbintly.

 

First one of these beers I had last August had no issue. The last one I had a couple of months ago had a bunch of white floaties, so I strained them out after drinking a few. This time I was prepared and poured it through a strainer, with some of it staying in the bottle. This time it's closer to raspberry color and smells like raspberries. Yes I know it looks like . Beer is fantastic as usual.

 

Either coconut candy, shredded coconut, toasted coconut, hazelnut or a combination of all.

 

Wow. Is that yeast, or chocolate/raspberries that seperated from the beer?

 

By the smell, I'd say chocolate/raspberry. Thank god I didn't step in it.

The other day I had a mocha stout and when I poured it out of the can, the last dregs looked like and had the consistency of Hershey's chocolate ice cream topping. The beer tasted like it too.

 

The hundreds bottle tickets available for the public sold out in a matter of minutes at $42/bottle including taxes/fees. I think their margins are pretty low but, they definitely don't currently have an issue moving product.

The coconut and hazelnut they used in the barrels.

I agree it's super lazy (even for a "one man" brewery) and the beer had better be mindblowing.

 

Dirty lines?

 

Likely the brewer packaging the product straight from the fermenter with the yeast/any adjunct towards the bottom of the tank. At the end of the run some of that didn't settle out and made its way into package. I'd imagine it's not intentional and I'd contact the company.

Thank you technology for giving us filters and clarification units so we don't have to see this crap too often.

 

And you all complained about the glitter beer.

 

I might be wrong but how can that be raspberries? Even if the raspberries were added late in the process they will breakdown pretty far that there wouldn’t be chunks when soaked in liquid for months. I can see it being chocolate. I’ve brewed with chocolate and it can settle at the bottle and never fully blend in.

I think it has to be protein dropping out, along with yeast and chocolate. Also, if earlier bottles were fine. Proteins and yeast will drop out of solution over time but raspberries don’t. With big stouts with a lot of proteins I see it all the time but i’ve Never seen so much.

The good thing is they don’t effect the taste it just is unappealing

 

With the last one that had chunks, I didn't notice until they were in the glass and I drank some. Those looked white when fished out. This time, as shown in the picture, they were reddish brown so perhaps had chocolate on them. I have one more beer and am willing to do more investigation. I could strain it again, then wash it with water and see if the chunks are indeed white, and see if they dissolve. If they don't dissolve, then perhaps raspberry. If they dissolve then perhaps yeast/proteins. The thing that led me to say raspberry was that the larger ones were about the diameter of a raspberry, and they seemed to hold together.

Not sure it was related, but about seven hours after I drank it, I woke up in the middle of the night with a throbbing headache. Could have just been a combination of the 14% ABV and dehydration, but one strong beer doesn't usually do that to me.

 

I'm the owner and brewer of a small brewpub and recently did my first two barrel aged beers. These beers were completely fermented and clean when they went into the barrels. I have transferred them back into tanks for conditioning and have been selling one of them for a few weeks, a bourbon barrel aged stout. I normally fill my kegs from the racking arm (higher up) until the level of the tank gets low, then I'll fill the final kegs from the dump. Yes, there will be more yeast, etc. in those last kegs, but I will run it "clear" before filling, then cut it when yeast starts to come again at the very end.

These barrel aged beers had very little yeast in them because they were racked after fermentation was complete, fined, sat a couple more months before racking to the barrels, then were aged approximately four months before being racked back into the tanks. Very clean IMO.

Which leads to this: The most recent keg I pulled was the first one off the dump, and I'm not sure how to describe what this method looks like, but the beer goes from a 1.5" dia. pipe on the bottom of the fermenter to a 3/8" ID hose that has a keg coupler on the end. Once the keg is full, it's disconnected, then I collect the "hose beer" for tasting. Gotta make sure everything is ok! There's a little pocket between the dump valve and the 3/8" hose that I collected, along with the hose beer, and behold, at the bottom of the glass was this EXACT byproduct pictured above.

This was not yeast, it was very gelatinous, almost rubbery in consistency. Very weird. I bumped around on probrewer to see if I could find anything, but could not. I've tried to include as much detail as possible so maybe someone can put a finger on it. I'm stumped so far.

Anyway, I know I've seen a thread lately regarding ABV and barrel aged beers, and I've got some interesting info on these same two beers that I'll try to post when I get time.

Cheers!

 

I looked into the fining that I used - Nalco 1072, which is a "liquid colloidal suspension of silicon dioxide". Perhaps the culprit? I would think that after racking a couple times that this would be left behind, but perhaps not?