The Pumpkin Spice Ale seemed to be doomed from the very beginning. You can read all about it in an earlier post.I'm pretty sure that this recipe may be thrown out, but it depends on who you ask. Sonya, Ryan, and I decided to give it a taste test last Friday to see if, by some miracle, the beer turned out. After the first taste, Ryan and I just looked disappointingly into our mason jars of "Pumpkin Ale" and decided, nearly simultaneously, that
it had the odd taste of Band-Aids. For anyone who has ever brewed, you'll understand exactly what I mean by that.It's not like we had an unfortunate "lunch lady band-aid in the goulash" kind of problem. It's just something known as off-flavoring. Surprisingly, I blame it on what seems like the smallest mistake that we made.
The tap water.
Although we only used a little bit, Pittsburgh's water sucks. You get Chlorophenols in unfiltered tap water if your city adds any chlorine to the water. Chlorophenols smell and taste like vinyl.
In case you were wondering.
Sonya, however, said that she didn't mind the slight medicinal taste and thought it wasn't too bad. I'm glad to hear that because we have two cases of it that I would hate to see go to waste. Anyone interested in helping us drink these two cases of beer is more than welcome. Or if you happen to have a cut on your tongue or in your throat and can't figure out how to put a band-aid on it, come on over.
It's honestly not that bad.
Darn tap water.
2 comments:
I disagree on the tap water diagnoses, but we can continue to blame it on that if you prefer. And you forgot the most important part of the story... I definitely said "band-aid" immediately after tasting it, then you two couldn't shake it. Maybe we just need a second tasting? Haha.
Anyway, I love your writing style! You're cute!
Oh yeah...
From,
Sonya
(Graham is not calling himself cute.)
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