CO2 Taint?
Posted: Wednesday Mar 18, 2009 1:13 pm
G'day
I was gonna put this thread in commercial beer, but I figured you guys would know more.
This may only be a figment of my imagination, but when I drink draught (tap) beer I find it tastes slightly different from bottled. I beleive I can taste the bubbles (the same flavour for most draught beers I've had). It's as if the CO2 forced into the beer, or the stuff used to force the beer out of the kegs, tastes different from the CO2 produced naturally in the bottle.
Is this possible? Has any one else noticed this?
For those of you who have tried both force carbonation and "natural" carbonation in kegs, what do you think?
On the flipside, is it possible the bottle is leaving a taint?
I've always thought that draught beer was the best way to drink a beer taint-free; until last year when I decided I could taste the same "fake bubbles" in all draught beer.
I would appreciate any one's thoughts on this.
I was gonna put this thread in commercial beer, but I figured you guys would know more.
This may only be a figment of my imagination, but when I drink draught (tap) beer I find it tastes slightly different from bottled. I beleive I can taste the bubbles (the same flavour for most draught beers I've had). It's as if the CO2 forced into the beer, or the stuff used to force the beer out of the kegs, tastes different from the CO2 produced naturally in the bottle.
Is this possible? Has any one else noticed this?
For those of you who have tried both force carbonation and "natural" carbonation in kegs, what do you think?
On the flipside, is it possible the bottle is leaving a taint?
I've always thought that draught beer was the best way to drink a beer taint-free; until last year when I decided I could taste the same "fake bubbles" in all draught beer.
I would appreciate any one's thoughts on this.