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I'm just bouncing this idea around seeing if it's even feasible, but I'd be interested in getting together on one of our "off" Thursdays and having people bring in home brewed beers with various flaws so we can taste them, troubleshoot, and just learn more about what the various flaws taste like.

-I can volunteer to bring in a beer with an overly stringent tanniny taste from too high of a temp sparge (I'd have to make a small intentionally flawed batch because my Weiss beer that I did this on is long gone.); if this was a couple of months out I'm pretty sure I could bring in a beer with yeast autolysis flavors, too.


Who even still has bottles of a flawed beer that they could contribute to see if this is even feasible?

Adam

I'd like that- but only because I'd feel less out-of-place than on the regular Thursdays.

I've got plenty of flawed beer to volunteer, count me in.

"Biertourist":hficuu29 wrote: I'm just bouncing this idea around seeing if it's even feasible, but I'd be interested in getting together on one of our "off" Thursdays and having people bring in home brewed beers with various flaws so we can taste them, troubleshoot, and just learn more about what the various flaws taste like.

-I can volunteer to bring in a beer with an overly stringent tanniny taste from too high of a temp sparge (I'd have to make a small intentionally flawed batch because my Weiss beer that I did this on is long gone.); if this was a couple of months out I'm pretty sure I could bring in a beer with yeast autolysis flavors, too.


Who even still has bottles of a flawed beer that they could contribute to see if this is even feasible?

Adam[/quote:hficuu29]

Are you saying that you would intentionally brew a flawed batch of beer? If you are able to re-create the flaw, surely you know what the issue was. It may be useful to others to learn from the mistake, but to intentionally make it again, seems crazy to me, no offence. An evening of tasting bad beer doesn't sound that attractive either.

Cheers,
Billy.

I have an older beer there from my kit days which was a high gravity (error) that ended up with definite autolysis off-flavours. It's kinda like you mixed marmite into the beer.