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[quote:3uwvrwpx]a sampling of beer spiked with off flavours that are commonly picked up during bottling. Very interesting and useful.[/quote:3uwvrwpx]That does sound useful - did you recognise any of them?

I seem to remember a Basic Brewing Podcast about off flavours where they reviewed a kit you could buy to spike beer with off flavours. Soundsw like a good way to learn about it. Has anyone seen such a kit available on any of the regular homebrew sites?

They over spiked them, so the flavours were unmistakable. Phenol was obvious and lactic, diacetyl was sickening and light strike was easy enough to recognise. DMS was very unsual. At the level they spiked for our untrained palates it stank of cabbage left to fester in the plug of your kitchen sink. Trans 2 nonenal was there too and it smelled very strongly of wet cardboard and I'm fairly sure it is 'that flavour' we've had problems with, but it was so strong it was hard to tell.

"n1mbus":21z9s7kh wrote: I seem to remember a Basic Brewing Podcast about off flavours where they reviewed a kit you could buy to spike beer with off flavours. Soundsw like a good way to learn about it. Has anyone seen such a kit available on any of the regular homebrew sites?[/quote:21z9s7kh]

There's one available for Brewlab which I'm going to invest in. I thought it might be fun and informative to get a group together and spike some Budweiser.

In the Basic Brewing Podcast they spiked Coors Light. They decided that this was a perfect beer to spike as it had no off flavours, or any flavours for that matter <!-- s:lol: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_lol.gif" alt="" title="Laughing" /><!-- s:lol: -->

how much does it cost?