STRAWBERRY OIL ADJUNCT

DELONGPREBUM a écrit :

Plastic container you're brewing in ?

You may be unable to get rid of the flavour for future batches, then.

It happened back in 98 or 99 to british family brewers Batemans, who released a strawberry bitter, and then had to have the beer lines of the pubs who had served it changed, because the flavour had impregnated the plastic and was bleeding back into the beer passing through the line. The core of the problem being that strawberry flavour is something so pungent that a human palate detects it even at trace level.

Cheers !

Laurent

YES!

Thanks, mon ami. Je suis ne a Montreal.

Actually, I wanted to know if there would be any problem in using 6 YEAR-OLD strawberry oil.

I made some cherry beer years ago and it took about 5 batches before the aroma was gone. Not that I minded the aroma.

Swiss beer? Tell me more.

DELONGPREBUM a écrit :

Well... german speaking, eastern side still very much lager country, although there still are quite a few regional / family brewers churning out quite competent stuff. Western, french-speaking side has less surviving family brewers, but has been flooded by belgian imports for a generation or so, which in turn led to the creation of quite a few micros that tend to brew ale rather than lager.

Most notorious is BFM

'part from that, market dominated by Feldschlösschen (local Carlsberg subsidiary) with about 45% of total volume, Calanda-Haldengut (subsuidiary of Heineken) following win 15% or so, third is swiss-owned Eichhof (12% or so) and then about 30 regionals accounting for most of the rest, the last percent being up to the 100 or so micros and brewpubs. Import situation pretty good, especially in the Western half, pretty much any Belgian beer available off the shelf, and decent selections of german, british,dutch, czech etc. stuff.

For a good overview, look up

Cheers !

Laurent