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Soapy taste off cask beers 13 years 9 months ago #1

DCBrewing Topic Author Offline Posts: 649	When in a pub I nearly always go for a cask and usually enjoy them. But a bit like you get the same taste from kit brews coming through, I've always noticed a soapy taste coming from cask ales. Sometimes stronger than others. I have noticed this over the last few years in different pubs. Anyone else get this taste?

Soapy taste off cask beers 13 years 9 months ago #2

irish_goat Offline Posts: 1553	Never noticed it myself. Some hoppy beers sometimes have a "soapy" taste. Have you noticed this with all styles of cask i.e. stouts as well as pale ales? Other than that it could be unrinsed glassware or line cleaner being left behind although you'd think this is unlikely to happen in several different pubs.

Soapy taste off cask beers 13 years 9 months ago #3

Joey.de Offline Posts: 120	I've noticed it before as well but only off the hoppier beers, as Irish goat said.

Soapy taste off cask beers 13 years 9 months ago #4

DCBrewing Topic Author Offline Posts: 649	it would be the ales alright. Would a cask version of the same hoppy ale be more inclined to taste soapy?

Soapy taste off cask beers 13 years 9 months ago #5

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&quot;DCBrewing&quot;:3gv3z3yf wrote: it would be the ales alright.
Would a cask version of the same hoppy ale be more inclined to taste soapy?[/quote:3gv3z3yf]

According to John Palmer.

[quote:3gv3z3yf]Soapy
Soapy flavors can caused by not washing your glass very well, but they can also be produced by the fermentation conditions. If you leave the beer in the primary fermentor for a relatively long period of time after primary fermentation is over ("long" depends on the style and other fermentation factors), soapy flavors can result from the breakdown of fatty acids in the trub. Soap is, by definition, the salt of a fatty acid; so you are literally tasting soap.[/quote:3gv3z3yf]

I guess the fact that the beer is in the cask with a bit of the trub might play a factor.

Soapy taste off cask beers 13 years 9 months ago #6

tube Offline Posts: 3438	Ah, Palmer talks thru his hole too, and changes his opinion from one edition of his book to the next. I don't give any weight to what he says any more. Cask handling is very poor in Ireland, something a few of us are working to change.

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