Hello,

I know this thread has been dormant for a bit, but I actually have a couple of things to add: firstly, hi, brewer here of the female persuasion and secondly--has anyone had an occasion where a batch of beer tasted fine to them but someone of the opposite sex felt it was disgusting?

Case in point, I just bottled an English bitter my husband had requested I make. I did a taste-test and thought I caught a twinge of vomit in the aftertaste. As this was my third BIAB, I was very disappointed and started to review my processes in my head thinking what did I do wrong? (The previous batch smelled like vomit as well and I dumped that quickly.)

DH comes over and carefully sips and thinks-- I'm getting ready to apologize--and he says it tasted just like he remembered. "Very drinkable!"

Really?!

Now the fourth batch used all the same ingredients but a different English Ale yeast and I thought it tasted much better. DH was not convinced. He preferred the vomit rocket. Hmmm. More sensitive nose of my gender or just different people with different taste buds?

Anyway,

I have to say this forum is generally very polite compared to some. I feel when I've posted I've gotten plenty of good feedback regardless of which toilet door I go into.

Thanks,
Nikki

Thanks BB,
Funny, but I've read that same page when it happened the first time. I can't figure where "vomit" would fit in. Anyway, I've got a customer who'll drink it if he can keep his paws off while it conditions. Hey, maybe bottle conditioning will get rid of it?